Aberration

In class on Thursday, the story and title were finalized after a period of discourse as to what aspects of the story would be shown in the opening and how it would tie into the name we would use. Below is the drafting we had for the outline of the opening and the names that we thought could work for the film.

The names (picture one, located in the center right) that we came up with at first revolved around the light post and the major event that would take place there at the end of the opening. This idea was to have the death of one of the characters in the opening and not explain why it happened. Later throughout the story, this would get explained more and various events would be linked to it. We decided to lean off those names as we felt the entire film would be dependent on light or a light post which we didn’t want.

Having shifted off of that we both liked the idea of the character having some sense of mental illness or deficiency to have reasoning behind the killing in the beginning. We want to follow an idea where the character doesn't have complete control over himself and his actions which would create suspense and mystery. This is how we landed on ‘Hysteria’, 'Unstable', and ‘Aberration’.

When selecting between these three names we didn't want it to be plain nor to outright go with one that felt familiar to audiences in regard to something such as Psycho or Zodiac which ultimately made us go with Aberration. The definition found here, works on a bunch of levels for our story. There is an idea of deviating from a "normal path" and a tie into mental illness and irregularity while at the same time not being entirely clear as to what this illness is. This uncertainty is what stood out the most to us as it would add this element of suspense and mystery to the film that we both think fits perfectly.