Hello Andy,
I am not sure whether this "$50 for the name you like best" can work
within the Google Answers format. I hesitate to post my ideas as an
answer because if I do then are you not obliged to pay, whether you
like any of the names I suggest or not? Though I suppose you could ask
for "clarification" repeatedly until I came up with a name you liked!
But I will do it this way: I will post my thoughts and ideas as a
"comment", and if you like any of the names I will then post this
comment as an answer.
First, my credentials. I have worked most of my life in advertising
and marketing and have been involved in a number of naming projects,
of course. So I come at your "question" in a semi-professional way.
I started by concluding, after looking at your website and on the
basis of what I know about how even film is edited today, that the
skills you teach are all DIGITAL skills. So I thought maybe the name
ought to reflect that fact. (Video in your current name is too narrow,
no, and maybe not current enough? Perhaps that's why you are
contemplating a change?)
So I tried to come up with names that refer to digital. First up:
DIGITERIA (or The Digiteria). I kind of like it because it suggests
your very comprehensive course offerings, from which the veteran or
the novice can choose what they need. (It's also rather contemporary
sounding, which is to the good I would maintain.) Other possibilities:
The Digiterium, DigitalSpectrum.
Another area of exploration was prompted by my thought that maybe
(unlike Video Symphony) the new name should say or suggest what you
are: a place to go to for up-to-the-minute technical training in
today's media production systems and methods. I first played around
with the word "media" and came up with the name Mediatheque (a French
word, kind of stylish, and used in France as a name for places where
people view films on video and I think receive training sometimes.)
But this name further suggested a name that DOES say School more
explicitly:
MediaTech
In a way you are a technical school, imparting technical skills of an
advanced and much-in-demand kind. So MediaTech I like a lot as a name.
Short. Memorable. And in a few letters says a lot about who you are
and what you do. (And maybe has the further advantage of being a
little broader in its scope, because of "media", than names which are
based on "digital.") A cursory serach on Google revealed no
educational enterprise using this name.
However, if you prefer the digital reference, a possible name that
does suggest training/school is Digital State (as in Michigan State).
You could have a lot of fun with such a name by logo-izing it in the
fashion of a university logo. Fun can be good.
By the way, I think it's helpful--necessary even-- to think of any
name you may consider in connection with a descriptor that would
follow the name and elaborate it a bit, in your marketing. For
example:
1. Digital State...State-of-the-art technical training for today's
entertainment industry.
2. DigiScope...professional training for jobs in today's entertainment industry.
3. MediaTech...Professional training in digital media production
4. Digiteria...Choose where you want to go in media production.
Okay, I have spent long enough. I am hoping you see something you like
or at least inspires thinking in a direction that you think could be
the right one. If so, I will post this as an answer. If not,
well...good luck!
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