A2 Evaluation

A Lost Soul ( All 3 Final Tasks)

'A Lost Soul' Future Aspirations

Now that my media product has now been completed, my aspiration for "A Lost Soul" is to enter the product into short film festivals such as BFI, Cannes and Sundance. From these film festivals, my product will be able to reach a much broader audience which could benefit from the word of mouth. Another potential benefit would be to gain recognition from studio executives and producer in order to then gain funding to produce a feature film based on the short film "A Lost Soul"; examples of previous cases are with Wes Anderson's "Bottle Rocket" and Damien Chazelle's "Whiplash" all films that were based of the film-maker's short films created to pitch their feature film.

As for other future aspirations I have for my project, as the director if I am granted the opportunity to revisit the material within a feature film; I would like to expand on the world within the story by increasing the visual scope of the film through the IMAX experience. If the studio granted my project an IMAX release, I would then be able to edit the sequences and the sound mix accordingly ensuring that my film will certainly be able to offer the audience the best possible way to be fully immersed within my story through the large format and extensive sound system that IMAX theatres can provide.

Overall these are predominantly the main aspirations I have regarding my project and it's potential success in the future as well as the different aspirations I have as a film-maker.

'A Lost Soul' (Age Rating)

During the planning, I researched the BBFC and their age rating classification. Within my research I looked through the different age ratings and evaluated the various reasons as to why the BBFC would classify particular age rating.

In regards to classifying the age rating for my media product "A Lost Soul" it has been given a "15" as my product consists of the following:

•   strong violence
•  frequent strong language (e.g. 'f***').
•   portrayals of sexual activity
•   strong verbal references to sex
•   sexual nudity
•   brief scenes of sexual violence or verbal references to sexual violence
•   discriminatory language or behaviour
•   drug taking

My product meets four of these points; strong violence/blood, strong language, discriminatory language/behaviour and drug use. This is ultimately why my film has been granted a 15 certificate by the BBFC. This will strengthen the product as our target audience is young adults and older. Ultimately I am happy with this certificate as it still allows me to present may original vision without manipulating the product to fit a lower rating as this still allows me to cater my target audience, the mature demographic.

'A Lost Soul' Final Poster

This is the final version of my poster, where I have addressed all of the feedback made from previous drafts; last main adjustment made was to the fonts besides the title as they needed to be separate from the title in order to help focus their attention to the red font on the main title but also in some areas particularly with the release date on the bottom is to help with visibility.

Overall I am extremely satisfied with the poster as it does a perfect job at encapsulating the tone and style of my media product whilst teasing what audiences can expect to see.

'A Lost Soul' Film Review

Final Colour Grading & Sound Mixing (Editing Session #5)

Within my 5th editing session, my main task was to finalise the colour grade and sound mix of my media product. The overall colour grade and sound mix if good, however there are some sequences that need to be edited further.

In regards to the colour grade, there was a small aspect that needed to worked on and that was the sandwich shots; in previous drafts the colour of the shot and the sandwich has differed from the rest on the sequence and the shots to follow. In my previous drafts, the sandwich had appeared green which was off as the sandwich was made from brown bread; this was a result of the shot consisting on a blue tint and affecting the sandwich's colour overall.

Colour grade from "Rough Cut #4"

How I approached the colour grade is by revisiting the old treatments of the shot to help me understand what I had previously done with the shot in order to aid my decisions when making changes to the new edits.

For this colour grade, I edited the shots individually and edited them from scratch. I used RGB curves to adjust the various colours within my shot, reducing the amount of green and blue in order to return the brown colour into the sandwich.

Final Version

As for the sound mixing, there where moments within the media product that had no ambient sounds which made the sound feel empty. In order to fix this, I added background noises from the machines within within the basement in order to make the sound feel organic but also make sense to the mise en scene.

But after all of these adjustments have been made, my product is finally complete as I have made all of the adjustments and changes to believe the product I believe is of high quality and I am satisfied with my final cut as it presents my original vision; now it is ready to been seen.