Names

For the geeky schoolgirl we both decided that we wanted to have a pretty plain, simple and quite a popular, common name. We Google searched the most popular girls names that were around in 2000 in the UK and we looked down the list to find a name that we both liked, and we both thought suited the purpose quite well. We found that we both quite liked 'Georgia' which was number 12 on the list. Then, for the surname, we simply Google searched the most popular British surnames, and found this list, which we looked through. We both knew that we didn't want a surname which was 'too popular' as this might just seem as though we couldn't be bothered to think of a different surname than, as for example, Smith or Jones. So we decided we'd start reading through the list about halfway down, and then decided. One name that sprung up to both of us straight away was 'Murphy'. It may of been number 55 on the list, but we chose this as the final name for 'Georgia Murphy'.

We then had to decide on a name for the Superhero. We had decided before, here [LINK], that to help to make our movie have a feministic twist we would make our superhero feminine. We researched some names for our protagonist, and after googling feminine superheroes we found some of these names:

· Andromeda

· The Bionic Woman

· Blossom

· Elasti-Girl

· Halo

· Madame Xanadu

· Kim Possible

However we weren't really too keen on any of these names, as we felt they made the characters look like quite weak and non specialist. We decided that we liked the idea of naming the character with two words, and one of the first words being to describe a colour which could be linked to them. After some research we found this super heroine who is called 'Topaz'. She looks like quite a strong feminist character, and we could base the costume around the colour topaz. The definition of the word 'Topaz' on Wikipedia is as follows: Topaz is a silicate mineral of aluminium and fluorine with the chemical formula Al₂SiO₄(F,OH)₂. Topaz crystallizes in the orthorhombic system and its crystals are mostly prismatic terminated by pyramidal and other faces. Pure Topaz is mainly colourless, which works well for our character as her superpower is invisibility. There are two main other types of Topaz, which are both coloured yellow and blue. We thought that we could create a costume which has both of these colours in.

We also noted that from the names above, a few of them, such as Elasti-Girl had their superpowers written in to their names. We looked in a thesaurus for different words which could describe invisibility. This linked us to ghosts, as they are invisible, which then in turn lead us to Spectre.

This is the dictionary definition of Spectre: Spectre or spectre usually refers to a ghost or other apparition.

The route to choosing the name of the name for the Villain was quite long and winding. Because we had chosen the superpower of Mind Reading for them, our first thought was of a Magic 8 Ball. The dictionary definitions of these are: The Magic 8 Ball is a toy used for fortune-telling or seeking advice, manufactured by Mattel. The Magic 8 Ball merchandise is often linked with mind reading, because the user asks the ball a question to which they then receive an answer. We liked this original twist on the power, and started to make the costume by painting the eight on the stereotypically black cape of the villain. However this didn't look as great visually as we had expected, but we had a flash of inspiration; that the eight reminded us both of the sign for Infinity. We then changed this word slightly, which led us to create the name that is, 'The Infinitive'.