I’ve got a lot of things to name for this project: my production company, my character names, and my actual TITLE. Man it’s a lot to think about. I started with probably the easiest of the three: the name of my production company. This one was pretty easy, I just did it based off of my last name, Ratnayake, and the actual name of my blog.
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I didn’t know what font I wanted to do, so I just went with a simple hand drawn approach and did a handwriting font (cause I literally hand wrote it). This is kinda similar to the Samuel Goldwyn studios logo and kinda how I want to have my logo as.
The next thing that I need to do for the production company logo is find a good music or sound effect to use while the animation plays. Zapsplat is what I used to find the sound effects that I wanted for my logo. I wanted to have a handwriting sound effect that then changes to a little ding once the cheese appears (it’ll make more sense when you see the final product).
Six seconds done out of 2 minutes. That’s progress!
Next on the list of things to name is the characters in my film. I have a main character, friends, and parents in my film, but I think for the purpose of this opening, since I’m only showing my main character and her friends (in the group chat), I’m only going to name them.
Starting with the main character, I want to allude to greek mythology as that is the theme of my opening as shown through her project being about the myth of Daedalus and Icarus. I don’t, however, want it to be some random Greek name that no person would have in this time period. It can't be something like Aphrodite or Demeter or something crazy like that. It’s gotta be more modern. Also, the name has to have a good meaning that fits the character, especially for the main character. So I started to research greek or roman related names that would fit the time period. I came across the name of Iris. Iris was the Greek goddess of the rainbow and was considered a messenger of the Gods. Rainbow fits in with the main character, cause you know, she’s gay, but Iris’ backstory also relates to the character herself and it’s not just simply materialistic. The name Iris comes from both the greek word iris, meaning rainbow, and eiris, meaning messenger. In ancient Greece, rainbows were a connection between the gods and the mortal world. She was Hera’s personal messenger, and would only be called upon when needed. This is just like how the main character is being used by her friends to complete the school project, so this name could fit really well. Iris is a silent messenger and is only noticed when she delivers the messages from the gods, just like how my main character is someone who remains in the shadows and by herself most of the time. Boom, one name down: Iris.
For the names of the friends, I first need to figure out how many there actually are. In many books and movies there is typically a group of three as the main trio. For instance Percy, Annabeth and Grover in the Percy Jackson book series and also Harry, Ron and Hermione in the Harry Potter franchise. Three seems like the perfect amount of people in a friend group. In Iris’ friend group however, she’s the odd one out, so I think having four people, including herself, be in the group creates a sense of isolation for Iris as she does not fit into the typical trio. Three other friends is perfect.
I need three good character names for each of the friends, so I went back to greek and roman mythology to find some. During my research I came across Helen of Troy. In the Iliad and Odyssey, Helen is described as the reason the Trojan War all started, and despite not being completely the truth, she is hated amongst all of Greece. Her femininity and beauty are her main attributes and I feel like this fits well with the friend group. Another person I found was Circe, the daughter of Helios and a famous enchantress. She lured Odysseus and his sailors with her charm and spells to her island where she turned them into pigs with her potions and promises of greatness. Instead of having Circe be the name, since that’s a little too outlandish for this film, I was thinking the name Cecilia , as it has the same vibe and almost the same letters. Additionally, the last part of “Cilia”, sounds similar to the Scylla, who was another greek monster who attacked Odysseus on his journey. Finally, Medusa was a greek monster that could turn people into stone with her hair of snakes. She is killed by Perseus and is one of the main monsters he encounters. The name Medusa, however is very much not modern, so I was thinking instead of that her name could be Mira as it fits the vibe and starts and ends with the same letters. So we got Helen, Cecilia and Mira as the three friends.
The only thing left is to name my actual film, but I think I’m gonna leave that for another day or whenever I get inspiration. We’ve made progress though!
REFERENCES!
Dent, C. (2023, November 2). The Femme Fatale in Ancient Greek myth (7 examples). TheCollector.
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