Ghostbusters Edit

We were given the task of re-creating a scene from Ghostbusters and we were to try and get it shot for shot for the sequence. The scene in which we were given was the opening scene of the movie which involved the character of Dr. Peter Venkman doing tests on two students. We were to create storyboards so that we knew exactly what we needed to film and so that we had a plan of what we were doing. Once we had finished filming we were to import the footage and to edit the sequence using Final Cut Pro X.

When going through the rushes it was clear that some of the shots that we had were a bit shaky. However, we knew that this was going to be a problem as we made the mistake of not booking out a tripod for the day of shooting. So everything in which we shot was handheld. All though this was apparent in a few shots it was not a major problem as looking at the footage as a whole you could not tell as the camera had been held quite steady. Luckily, the shots that were shaky were not vital to our edit so we were able to cut them out and use other shots that weren't so bad.

One problem that we found when editing was making sure that the sound was correct throughout the whole edit. There were points within some of the clips where the sound was too quiet or muffled in some places. This meant that we had a few sound problems that we needed to sort out. However, we had recorded a wild track on location which made this problem a lot easier to solve as we could disguise the bad sound with this.

Another problem in which we faced when editing was that when filming the white balance had not been set correctly and this caused us a few problems as the room in which we were filming was white. So this was a problem in which we had to sort out during post-production. We looked at colour grading the sequence and doing all that we could in order to restore the footage. The end result was that it did look a lot better than the original footage did, however it is something that we will have to remember when we film again.

One thing that i found difficult while editing was working as a group on one edit. I find that it is hard to work as a group while editing sometimes because everyone has their own opinion to what they think is right and how something should look. There is also the problem of that only one person can actually edit at one time and this left other people not having much participation in the edit. This also made it hard for when we wanted to take it in turns for editing as it was looking at the edit and wanting to change what someone else had done to how you would like it to be. However, as a whole i think that we worked well as a team to get the edit finished and to be happy with the finished product.