How to come up with good titles for your work Page 4

Quote: Frankie Rage @ October 26, 2007, 5:39 PM

You do seem to be confused, there was no mention in my posts about Castro holding elections, where did you get that idea from??? As you said yourself, he runs a totalitarian state..

...he does hold a cigar though ...well, maybe... he WAS holding one of those in the avatar from hardcorr, but even that has "disappeared" now ...see what I mean about "evidence"...

Anyway, you managed to evade the point I was making quite well and divert attention elsewhere, have you considered politics as a career?

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You just said that I couldn't be sure that he DID run a totalitarian state, I was merely trying to prove it. Is this a deliberate Cinnamon perplexing operation?

I've no idea about careers; I was so negative on the job opportunities site that they couldn't find a single match.

I bet you got that off a random band name generator! I've tried several and they're all crapola.

And each culture needs a mythological hero, and personally I think the Hoff and Chuck Norris make good alternatives to Hercules and Odysseus any day!

And what do you have against students anyway? You probably have them to thank for coding this forum we all seem to be enjoying so much.

I used to be one and I quite liked it.

I'm working on Episode 6 now. 1 more to go after this. Hooray!

(Hope no one has anything against exclamation marks or parentheses)

Quote: Martin Holmes @ October 26, 2007, 5:16 PM

Here's one you forgot:

"Chuck Norris jokes are crap, even Chris Moyles uses them."

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I feel duly dirty, and will hang myself at once.

Quote: Hardcorr @ October 26, 2007, 6:55 PM

I bet you got that off a random band name generator! I've tried several and they're all crapola.

And each culture needs a mythological hero, and personally I think the Hoff and Chuck Norris make good alternatives to Hercules and Odysseus any day!

And what do you have against students anyway? You probably have them to thank for coding this forum we all seem to be enjoying so much.

I used to be one and I quite liked it.

I'm working on Episode 6 now. 1 more to go after this. Hooray!

(Hope no one has anything against exclamation marks or parentheses)

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Ha, I am a student myself. I don't 'hate' students, that's why I said 'studenty' in quotation marks, it's like a specific type of student (mainly drama students) who like all that shitty 80's stuff that they know is crap but pretend to like it in an ironic way, it gets very tedious.

Yeah, but they're young and inexperienced at seeing their pretenciousness.

And they, as everyone, are slaves to a consumer mindset and believe they are seeking individuality when really they are just buying into whatever mindset is being imposed on their demographic.

When their demographic changes they'll probably let the whole 80's is cool phase go (after wrestling with the change for a while) and slip into the next bracket that's aimed at them.

And the wheels on the bus go round and round!

It's a science really. It's a nice challenge to try and break out of it.

I think finding a good title can be difficult as it needs to reflect not only the theme of the sitcom but also the tone of the comedy. More importantly if you saw your title in the TV listings would it tempt you to tune in?

Also I was once told you should always avoid naming a sitcom with anything that could be used against you. Against my better judgement, the current working title for a radio sitcom I'm writing is "Bite". Already I'm getting comments such as "... in places this lacks Bite". On the plus side I feel glad now I didn't call it "A Pile Of Wank".

But back to Chuck Norris jokes. My favourite...

Chuck Norris's tears can cure cancer. Unfortunately for mankind, Chuck Norris never cries.

That is a frickin' good one Dave M

Yeah, I'm factoring in all those things. Something that reflects the kind of comedy, the theme, something catchy in a positive way.

Bite is a dangerous one. But it's a critic's job to turn a title against the piece. Did you ever see This is Spinal Tap where their album called Shark Sanwich was descibed as "Shit Sandwich" and that was it!

I'll get something soon. Keep Bite. If it's good nobody will listen to some stupid critic anyway (apart from stupid people).

The only thing more played out than Chuck Norris jokes, is comedy sketches about posh white people, acting/talking "Street". I see Armstrong and Miller did their own variation of the concept, tonight, on their new series.

There is a problem with students. Some of them are tomorrows f**k**g Bank Managers, Insurance Agents and Politicians and they need to be wheedled out and destroyed. If only we could have got to Blair in his student days and stubbed him out!

It may be necessary for them all to be put down en masse and it may ease the housing shortage but there's still those 8 million tossers on benefits to deal with... sorry, 7,999,999 (I think there is one guy genuinely ill..)

I'm gonna be busy.. more power to my elbow eh?

Quote: Frankie Rage @ October 27, 2007, 1:45 AM

There is a problem with students. Some of them are tomorrows f**k**g Bank Managers, Insurance Agents and Politicians and they need to be wheedled out and destroyed. If only we could have got to Blair in his student days and stubbed him out!

It may be necessary for them all to be put down en masse and it may ease the housing shortage but there's still those 8 million tossers on benefits to deal with... sorry, 7,999,999 (I think there is one guy genuinely ill..)

I'm gonna be busy.. more power to my elbow eh?

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What are you going on about?

How about you call your show:

Shat on you...

Quote: Hardcorr @ October 27, 2007, 1:47 AM

What are you going on about?

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Producing a manifesto!

How rude.

I guess I should be grateful that I'm a decent writer and can create a 7 episode sitcom. If I can't come up with a decent title, ah well, you can't have your cake and eat it.

I guess I'll give in and call it "3 Pints of Lager and a Packet of crisps". Yeah, I can be sure it hasn't been used before.

Quote: Hardcorr @ October 27, 2007, 2:06 AM

How rude.

I guess I should be grateful that I'm a decent writer and can create a 7 episode sitcom. If I can't come up with a decent title, ah well, you can't have your cake and eat it.

I guess I'll give in and call it "3 Pints of Lager and a Packet of crisps". Yeah, I can be sure it hasn't been used before.

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It was a serious suggestion!

"Shat on you.." is a great title for a sitcom, maybe not your sitcom but hey, you are not the only sitcom writer on these boards, mate!!

Oh, and self praise is no recommendation, you should know that at your age!!!

Are you on your period or something?

Sorry for claiming to be a decent writer. I was exaggerating. I'm only half-decent, and at my tender age of 28 I should have known. Sorry. *sarcasm*

What's wrong with being proud of your ability any way? It's a craft I've put a lot of effort into. And I only claimed to be decent. I suppose it's a pretty ambiguous term. I think apt would have been better.

God, there's some touchy characters on here!

You haven't actually written 7 full episodes of the same sitcom have you? Because that's not such a wise idea because if it doesn't get picked up you have 7 wasted scripts.

What I usually do is write the pilot episode, get that perfect and then plan out the rest of the series, but I don't write the other episodes. I send the pilot episode off and then I start working on a brand new sitcom.