Film Title: A Valediction

After several brainstorming sessions we have decided on a title for our film, 'A Valediction', meaning 'A Farewell Speech'. We feel that this title represents the relationship between the two characters shown in the teaser as well as giving the audience scope to form their own ideas, as it is slightly ambiguous.

The title was inspired by the poem 'A Valediction Forbidding Mourning' by John Donne. This poem was written to his wife before he went to travel around Europe. The first stansa for this poem is:

As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
"Now his breath goes," and some say, "No."

This stansa plays on the aspects of death that are uncertain, or unexplained. This is, in essence, the basis for our film. Because of these two meanings we felt that this title was the right one for or film.