check out RIT GHOSTBUSTERS!

[Futher]

For a digital video project at RIT, a friend and I had to do a short film, so we decided to do a Ghostbusters remake. We started by keeping it similar to the Ghostbusters style, then after about 20 hours of straight editing our brains started to shut off and we got kinda dramatic at the end. All in all it turned out pretty well... only had about 3 days to do it. Hope you enjoy it =)

WARNING: 27 meg mp4 file

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

What plays mp4?? For christ's sake, can't you just pick a COMMON file type??

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt
What plays mp4?? For christ's sake, can't you just pick a COMMON file type??

says it is a mpeg4, wtf name it mp4?

 

[SeaSerpent]

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt
What plays mp4?? For christ's sake, can't you just pick a COMMON file type??

 

[Piano Man]

ROFL!!!

 

[Futher]

Heh, sorry. Quicktime plays them. Mpeg-4 is an amazing compression. I could have made it a .mov or something, but it would have turned out to be about 50 megs. Let me see what else I can do.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

GREAT work on sound effects and music. It's obvious that you put a lot of time into it.

 

[Nitemare]

Nice clip, how did you get someone to be the ghost?

 

[UnatcoAgent]

Hahah sh!t that's hilarious - nice job.

 

[z0mb13]

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[jdiddy]

Funny stuff your ghost has that Golem rolling around on the floor thing going on.

 

[Futher]

Thanks =) That's my friend. He ran around the tunnels in his underwear. If you're asking how we did the ghost effect, always shot the Ghostbusters and the ghost seperatly without moving the camera. Then we too the footage of the ghost, chopped it up into 1 second pieces, then exported each second into an flm file, or a film strip file. Each second has 30 frames, so in photoshop, we had to use the eraser tool and outline the ghost in each frame. Then we set the magic wand tool to a very high tollerance and got rid of everything around him so we just had the Ghost against a transparent backgroud. Then we just made a simple script to change the hue and opacity and outer glow and stuff. It took about 45 minutes per second to do the ghost, and sooooo many hours to do the final proton stream.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

when i saw the ghost rolling around, i dropped to the floor rolling around laughing

 

[SunnyD]

That was kindof lameish.

 

[Futher]

/me waits for a better video made by SunnyD

 

[SeaSerpent]

That was pretty cool...nice job:thumbsup:

 

[MAME]

I can't belive I'm the first one to say that was very not good. I mean the effects you had were fine, it's just the rest was just...bad.

Hope you did well on the project though!~

 

[Fritzo]

Yeah....they did this on 1/10000 of the budget they had too. Like you could do better :roll:


Great job! Made me smile

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: MAME
I can't belive I'm the first one to say that was very not good. I mean the effects you had were fine, it's just the rest was just...bad.

Hope you did well on the project though!~

You weren't MAME. As a short, it had no direction and looked like no script. The only thing I got from it was a special effects demo - which was fine. But even for a short, there was absolutely no purpose to it.

And I sincerely don't find the "funny" in it.

/edit - Charify to Further - if you did it as a special effects demo, you did alright. The filming effects and ability is good. But we're talking just from a technical standpoint only. And you won't see a better film out of me because I'm not interested nor have the background to do such things.

 

[DrPizza]

ok, ok, I'll finally install quicktime.....

 

[MacBaine]

Hey, it was just like a freedomsbeat movie... except, you know... entertaining and well made.

Oh wait somebody paid him to tape a pie fight, he must be good. nm I don't know what I'm talking about.

 

[Ryuson99]

i like it

 

[cthulhu]

All I get is file not found.

 

[Futher]

not sure what's wrong... so for those who saw it, I hope you enjoyed it. And for those who didn't see it, assume you would have had the same opinion as MAME and SunnyD. Thanks for the feedback. Got an A in every category by the way. If you were to see all the other student films, you would view this as the next Godfather. College students these days have the attitude of a highschooler. They hate their classes, all they do is complain, and they don't want to be in college. Despite all that, they still pay 35 grand a year....weird stuff

 

[Futher]

Also my friends and I built the replica proton pack on a $100 budget with marker board from home depot and a variety of other parts we found laying around. The main circular part is a piece from a planter, all the other cylinders are PVC pipes and wooden dowels. It came out nice though =) In the end, I've had the most fun I've ever had doing this project. Was more of a personal thing than a project for a grade.