Our Title (DON'T MOVE)

We have finally come up with a title for our film. The process of coming up with this title took longer than I expected but has been selected after an extended list of good and bad ideas.

These are all the ideas of we initially came up with:

• I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE
• FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS
• CODE BLACK
• AMERICA
• HUMAN
• HUMANE
• TUESDAY BLUES
• Things Falling Apart
• Half of a Sun
• Bondage
• Amerikkka
• Passage
• Strange Fruit
• Sierra Leone 
• DON’T MOVE

The ones that are in bold were our runner ups for the title. The last one is what we decided on- DON'T MOVE. Others were more symbolic and contained references but we decided that something simple like this one works best.

This phrase is easily recognizable as a phrase said by police officers as they are detaining someone. As a title of our film, "don't move" stands as a metaphor, it has double meaning. Similar to being detained by an officer, "don't move" symbolizes how the black community lives in a society that has historically oppressed them and now struggle to thrive due to systematic racism.

I believe that this title well-encompasses the overall theme of police brutality and the essence of the story we want to tell.