User Profile: SPWong - Original Trilogy

Post: #267848
Topic: Sluggo's Star Wars Trailer Contest *Next contest begins April 25th*
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267848/action/topic#267848
Time: 25-Jan-2007 4:14 PM

This is a great idea, Sluggo... here's to hoping for this to become a series, where we can expect to see OOT threads along the lines of, "Sluggo's fan-trailers vol. 6 - FINISHED!" or something.

I'm not sure if I'm going to finish mine by the end of the month, but I'll get it to you ASAP.

Post: #267098
Topic: //Star Wars Begins\\: HD Version Now on Vimeo
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267098/action/topic#267098
Time: 21-Jan-2007 5:00 PM

I think you should steer clear of anything relating to original story titles ("Journal of the Whills," the Starkiller stuff, etc.) and anything relating to the newer title ("A New Hope"), and try to go with the title the movie had when it was released. The vast majority of people know the movie as "Star Wars."

The key problem, as I see it, is finding a title that fits with the BE / RTJ theme without straight-out copying either. Titles such as...

Originally posted by: twister111

Forging Star Wars

and

Originally posted by: InfoDroid

"Assembling Star Wars"

...are okay, but I think they would feel like you just took your "Building" part of BE and went to thesaurus.com to find a synonym. The nice thing about RTJ is it doesn't do that; it's not called "Constructing Jedi." It plays on the film title, but it does so in a different manner.

Of course, by this logic, I'd have to throw out a host of other acceptable-but-BE-sounding titles: "Shaping Star Wars," "Launching Star Wars," "Undertaking Star Wars," "Inventing Star Wars," "Developing Star Wars," etc.

And you'd have to get rid of anything that was too similar to RTJ. And, I'd get rid of this stuff too:

Originally posted by: Jambe Davdar

Inside Star Wars
Making Star Wars
Filming Star Wars

They do the job, but they're obvious, and not as clever as BE or RTJ.

I was trying to come up with something that relayed, basically, "creating the beginning of a saga." I came up with a couple of cool ones, like "Embarking on Star Wars," but I think the fewer words you use, the better. If you can do the title in three words, you're gold. I toyed with "Imagining Star Wars," but the film really won't just be about imagining Star Wars-- it will be about making it.

So, the best I've been able to come up with so far is: "Realizing Star Wars"

I dunno, feel free to disregard my long-winded rants about your title.

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