Juliet:
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
I know the title doesn’t seem like the most important of things when writing a script. If it’s a rose, then it’s going to smell sweet no matter what the name. Unfortunately, this does not apply to movie scripts. The name is the first thing that an agent, a reader, a buyer and the audience will see. It can determine whether or not someone will actually buy or see the film.
For months now, Patrick and I have been kicking around names. As the writing process continues and the script evolves, the name ideas change. At first we thought we were writing a Katrina script and all of our names eluded to that. Even this blog was named after a possible title. But our characters told us something different.
This is a contemporary script set in post-Katrina New Orleans, so the name has to reflect that. This is a script whose main character is a 15 year old girl named Destiny (why, yes, this was quite a common name down south in the 90s). Destiny, like most 15 year old girls, wants everything to be about her. “I am the talent,” she says. “I am who you are writing about.”
So to appease our character, here is what we came up with:
“Destiny after the Storm”
You read it here first.
