The "Untitled Surf Guitar Documentary" is now "REVERB JUNKIES"
It only took us six months to come up with a title. Personally I dig it. Hope you guys do too
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So is it a documentary about surf music or a guitar effect?

That was excessively violent and completely unnecessary. I loved it.

CaptainSpringfield
So is it a documentary about surf music or a guitar effect?

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copscotch
... is now "REVERB JUNKIES"

Or FBM (the Friends of Baja Marty), for short?

Okay, honestly - the title is ... not good. What's the goal of the documentary? To bring surf music to a wider audience? "Reverb Junkies" won't do that. Whether or not reverb is the defining characteristic of the genre, the word means nothing in that context to people who aren't already fans of the genre.

These are all fairly recent music documentaries that look at a genre (or subgenre) of rock music. In every single case the titles give potential viewers a perfect idea of what to expect, even if the viewer isn't necessarily familiar with the genre being documented:

"Punk Attitude"
"American Hardcore"
"Romantic Warriors: A Progressive Music Saga"
"Metal: A Headbanger's Journey"
"Get Thrashed"
"Such Hawks, Such Hounds: Scenes From America's Hard Rock Underground"

Some don't even need a subtitle because the genre (or subgenre) name is right there in the title. I'm sure there are more examples that could be cited, but my point is that in every case someone who has minimal to no exposure to the focus of each can say, "Oh, that's a documentary about punk." Or thrash. Or prog, etc.

"The Sound of The Surf" does that as a title. "Reverb Junkies" does not.

"Reverb Junkies" is good as a title if you want to cater to a small percentage of the people would have already been guaranteed to see the film.

Just my $0.02. Best of luck completing the film.

That was excessively violent and completely unnecessary. I loved it.

Warren,
if you have some good ideas for titles,
throw them out there.

Jeff(bigtikidude)

I think when it comes to surf,
its hard to come up with a title and not sound like a bunch of surf nerds.
Or people thinking its about the Beach Boys, or worse yet Jack Johnson type stuff.

Jeff(bigtikidude)

''Reverb Junkies'':
The untold story of the original surf sound.

If you make up something like this you can keep the titel, and still inform people what it's about (I am just starting with a semester of documentary at school so maybe I can help you out with somethings).

Ohh and if you make a trailer, please make a good one or just leave it.
I have seen to many bad trailers made for music documentary.
Aka the timelife music collection syndrome !

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CaptainSpringfield
These are all fairly recent music documentaries that look at a genre (or subgenre) of rock music. In every single case the titles give potential viewers a perfect idea of what to expect, even if the viewer isn't necessarily familiar with the genre being documented:

"Punk Attitude"
"American Hardcore"
"Romantic Warriors: A Progressive Music Saga"
"Metal: A Headbanger's Journey"
"Get Thrashed"
"Such Hawks, Such Hounds: Scenes From America's Hard Rock Underground"

Hey, Guys!

Steve (behind the camera) from "Reverb Junkies" here. I didn't come up with the title, but, personally, I like it. Some will, some won't - we get that. There's no way to please 100% of this very diverse groups of fans and musicians.

However, I wanted to mention to Captain Springfield that three of the film titles you list have subtitles (everything after the colons - "Romantic Warriors" for example, tells you nothing about it even being about music without the subtitle; ditto with "Such Hawks, Such Hounds"), and both of the titles "Get Thrashed" and "American Hardcore" aren't all that clear, unless you already know that there is a genre called "thrash metal" (I assume that's what it's about - I grew up on a farm where we thrashed grain, so I could see that, too.) - and the second title could be about the porn industry or criminals, for all the clarity it provides.

I could cite dozens of examples of movies with titles that make no sense until you see the film: documentaries like "Dogtown and Z-Boys" (skateboards), movies like "The Shawshank Redemption" (a prison escape).

Saying you have to spell out your movie in the title, or it will not be successful is not a theory I would necessarily agree with. But I appreciate the feedback, as I'm sure my co-producers do - just hope you don't dismiss our movie because you're not immediately a fan of the title. Take Care!

steve

da-ron
I like the title Reverb Junkies. Or at least, I can't think of a better one! Makes it sound like a movie that'll be fun to watch.

But the name of your band is "the water boarders"...

I'm not sure having the words 'surf music' in the title really helps - a lot of people don't even know it's called surf music. You don't want people expecting Jack Johnson!

We need to take it back from Jack Johnson, et al.

Wish you all the best with it - Two surf music documentarys: Can't wait!

I totally agree with this. Steve and Steve, if you have a press release, trailer video, or whatever, send it to me and I'll put it on the front page of SG101.

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