Working Title

My initial ideas on the title of my film was that I was going to call it 'The Unknown Secret'. When I presented this idea to my class they did not think that the title made sense, hence working title. They believed that a secret is unknown anyway and this does not make sense, although this is why I chose the title to create a sense of confusion, it would seem the title did not convince my target audience. 

I decided to change my working title to 'Norman' , fans of Psycho will understand the meaning behind this title but for those who do not understand the title, I will now explain the character of Norman using a quite from wikipedia: 
"Both the novel and Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film adaptation explain that Bates suffers severeemotional abuse as a child at the hands of his mother, Norma, who preaches to him that sex is evil and that women (except herself) are whores. The two of them live alone together in an unhealthy state of emotional dependence after the death of Bates's father. When Bates is a teenager, his mother takes a lover, making him insanely jealous. Bates then murders both of them withstrychnine and preserves his mother's corpse. Bates develops dissociative identity disorder, assuming his mother's personality, repressing her death as a way to escape the guilt of murdering her. He inherits his mother's house, where he keeps her corpse, and the family motel in Fairvale, California.
Bloch sums up Bates' multiple personalities in his stylistic form of puns: "Norman", a child dependent on his mother; "Norma", a possessive mother who kills anyone who threatens the illusion of her existence; and "Normal", a (barely) functional adult who goes through the motions of day-to-day life.Bates is finally arrested after he murders a young woman named Mary Crane (called Marion Crane in the film) and Milton Arbogast, a private investigator sent to look for her. Bates is declared insaneand sent to an institution, where the "mother" personality completely takes hold; he essentiallybecomes his mother.
Bates dies in Bloch's 1982 sequel to his novel"
(Quote from Wikipedia) 


Me and Conor chose to use the character Norman as an inter-textual reference in our title because our central protagonist is very much the same as the character. He is very secretive and a bit of a 'loner'. He tortures sexually active women, just as the character Norman does. Also in the movie Psycho, you do not know he is the murderer until the end of the film, much like in our short film, the audience do not realise our central protagonist is a killer until the end.

We will also be calling our main character Norma, although this name will not be revealed during the film, but should be guessed by the audience as he is clearly the central protagonist, this all depends on whether they take the preferred reading.