Originally posted by: guitarfan01
Your explanations would work for any one of the ftb's you explained, but to have three of them in as many minutes and a fourth only three and a half minutes later seems quite overkill. I know I'm sorta resurrecting the thing, and I'm sorry if you dealt with this already and I missed seeing it earlier. No pressure of course, just all the fade to blacks make it seem like a tv show going to commercial.
Your explanations would work for any one of the ftb's you explained, but to have three of them in as many minutes and a fourth only three and a half minutes later seems quite overkill. I know I'm sorta resurrecting the thing, and I'm sorry if you dealt with this already and I missed seeing it earlier. No pressure of course, just all the fade to blacks make it seem like a tv show going to commercial.
The fade@18m (2nd emperor address) has been changed to a diagonal wipe (bottom-right to top-left), triggered after Emperor Palpatine raises his arms--so the wipe movement is congruent with the object flow.
I would be concerned that a simple cut (what you call a jump cut) will degrade--rather than improve--the two transitions that flank the Yoda-Sidious duel sequence. I don't mean to argue that FTB is the best device here; rather, I cannot yet imagine a satisfactory alternative.