Gotta say man, I really dig your ideas! Did you use a border around the video so that you don’t get hit with copyright takedowns?
Glad you like it!
And yeah, that’s a big part of it. It’s mostly a defense against being accused of just uploading clips. With the border and effects, they’re clearly contextualized.
Here’s something new: my personal fantasy of how the prequels should have/could have gone.
https://youtu.be/ND8PP2nfGOg
Aw geez totally forgot to keep up-to-date on some of this stuff.
Glad y’all are liking the videos though!
Here are some new ones:
Who has the worst aim in Star Wars (Han, Luke, Leia, Chewie. Some Stormtrooper discussion in there, too)
Rogue One Trailer in 1976 Style:
Thanks! Glad to be back!
Just finished up a new video: “The Force Awakens is NOT a Remake of A New Hope”
https://youtu.be/pueu2wu0M5s
Wow, didn’t realize there was such “recent” activity on this thread.
Sorry again for dropping of the face of the earth. Mithrandir’s ideas are - of course - excellent (Mithrandir, I’ll be messaging you later about some of that, actually!).
In other news…
My AotC edit is actually kinda done, but it requires a few further refinements after test-watching it with a few trusted friends. Due to my life happening harder and faster than expected, I greatly reduced the scope of these edits with the hope that I actually get them out someday. Attack of the Clones has been shortened by some 40 minutes, and it is much, much more watchable, but not as perfect as my full edit would have theoretically made it.
Check out my vimeo channel for a few “new” videos (as of 7 months ago) that hint at a few of the most radical changes I made to the film:
https://vimeo.com/aalenfae/videos
Recently, I started making videos about some of my more unique or unconventional thoughts about Star Wars (and incidentally Star Trek), and thought this site would be a good place to get some good discussion going on some of these topics. I currently have 4 Star Wars videos:
-Was Rey Inspired By Nausicaa? (discussing similarities between The Force Awakens and Miyazaki’s “Nausicaa”)
-Is Obi-Wan a Hypocrite? (1/2 of discussion on “Only a Sith deals in absolutes”)
-How the Jedi Became Sith (2/2 of discussion on “Only a Sith deals in absolutes”)
-What is a Force Ghost?
The most recent question I had was “what is a Force ghost?” because… well… it’s actually kind of a weird aspect of the Star Wars universe when you actually think about it.
https://youtu.be/t8c9Pd1FXBA
Thanks everybody!
I only really got serious about backups in the past few months - right before the catastrophe. So some of my work (most of Episode I, and some pre-rendered stuff from Episode III) was saved. But all of Episode II and most of Episode III is gone. However, I'm not looking at this as a tremendous loss. Most of the time invested in these edits has been trial-and-error. Now that I know how I want to do most scenes, it won't take long to reconstruct them in new ways. And hopefully - I'll actually find better ways to do them now!
Very cool! I feel really encouraged hearing about Disney a) listening to the fans and b) consciously not messing up.
And Filoni's comments about making Star Wars for kids and including comedic elements was spot-on.
I feel like a complete dweeb updating a months-old thread, but ... I'm back!
Well, I'd like to say "I'm back!" and I was going to upload some new, awesome stuff I've been working on in my absence, but it turns out that lighting struck my computer (almost literally), and a great deal of my prequel edit work was lost. HOWEVER, that does not mean that I will stop the edits. It just means that they will take a lot longer than expected. I intended to do a surprise release around the summer, but they'll likely take several months longer than that (and will perhaps be a little less extreme, but we shall see!)
In the meantime, I'd like to officially say that I'm back from my long time away, and in the coming months, you can expect some more cool stuff coming your way!
Going WAY back, I like how Tobar points out the visuals of "Droids in Distress." Utterly beautiful stuff, which I gushed all about in my review of the episode:
http://echenry.com/review-star-wars-rebels-droids-in-distress/
Concerning what Filoni said in the interview, I really like that they're not TOO focused on crossing-over with the characters from the feature films. Seeing R2, C-3PO, and Bail was fun, and I'm sure we'll see more cameos here and there, but probably not something that will become a staple with the show. Focusing on new characters is a definite step forward for Star Wars.
I just like that now, we have some characters that can actually SURPRISE us. With the Clone Wars, I knew every single time how it would come out. Obi-Wan's little romance with Satine? It had to end. Anakin and Ahsoka? It had to end. Obi-Wan, Anakin, Padme, and all the other characters from the films could only develop as far as they came in RotS, and that wasn't very far at all. So overall, there weren't many compelling character moments in the show.
But with Rebels, every second is something totally new. I see new characters developing, and I get to learn more about them with each passing moment. It's fantastic.
1. Rescoring in process! I'm just trying to settle on what music to rescore it with. Likely ANH music.
2. The ANH shot of R2 will be color-corrected with a new background to match the location .
Good idea! It could go like this, since I'm dubbing Grievous and the droids:
"general, we've located the indruders. A droid and two Jedi."
"bring them to the bridge!"
Yeah, that'd probably be the way to do it. There's even that shot of a super battle droid picking up R2. So if it's intercut with Obi-Wan and Anakin going up the elevator - before the Dooku duel - it might work quite well.
Glad you like it!
I always hated the miracle grappling hooks, too. And the random elevator problem. It's such a worthless little bit of cheap action. It only creates one problem. I need to show R2 getting captured in a new way.
And yeah, I'm pretty committed to redubbing Grievous. And we're thinking on the same wavelength here, haha. When I redub Grievous, his lines will definitely fit into the responses better and such. Redubbed Grievous and battle droids will give me a whole lot of freedom in the mood and weight of the scene.
Hey guys! I know I said I wouldn't be posting, but I managed to get a hold of some software to do tests while I'm abroad.
http://vimeo.com/77598556
Here's some random ideas I had for RotS.
Pay special attention to the beginning of the video, where I've edited the scene in such a way that we don't need the awful "ray shields!" scene. And Keep in mind that if I went this route, the battle droids and Grievous would be redubbed.
Yeah, the Ewoks don't need to WIN, per se. And in the first few seconds of the battle - where they play mainly a diversion role - I'd say they're fairly well-handled.
But for the rest of the time, I think instead of editing the super-effective and somewhat unbelievable traps out of the film, competent Ewok warriors can be edited in. They don't need to defeat the stormtroopers, but maybe we can at least see them as fairly capable. And not invincible. Only one or two Ewoks die on-screen, which makes them feel otherwise invincible, which is the main problem, I guess.
I don't mean vicious like they're ripping off limbs and eating the stormtroopers or anything xD
I just mean to make them more dangerous and aggressive. Not just teddy bears jumping on top of the stormtroopers and killing them somehow. They have spears and arrows, for instance, yet we really only see ONE arrow do any damage.
The stormtroopers are too wussy because the Ewoks are too invincible and have no credibility as combatants. If we add some shots of Ewoks being fearsome, as well as Stormtroopers being more effective at dispatching them, both problems are fixed.
I was actually just recently wishing that somebody would get a hold of some good Ewok costumes and edit in some more dark ewok battle scenes.
Have the Ewoks more vicious, and also have some more of them getting killed. That makes the battle a little more dire, and it also adds some credibility to the ewoks, who are no longer as cute, cuddly, and invincible.
Well, what I'd say to that is... he's definitely mouthing SOMEthing, and now that it's been seen, it cannot be unseen. Why would he mouth a three-syllable nothingness in response to Leia?
It makes a lot of sense to move the line to fill in his random mouthed words, which... I dunno. Maybe he misspoke or something, and they cut that part out of the audio to save the take or something, hoping that nobody would notice (which I guess worked pretty well, haha). So even if the audio isn't out-of-sync, there's definitely some kind of awkward mouth movement that looks a lot like he's talking.
adywan said:
brimforge said:
why do them CGI - get out into the yard and catch some bugs and put em on film ;-)
When people are already complaining that there are creatures from our world on dagobah already? Adding more real life ones would start the ultimate shit storm, (well that and the fact that i'm going to kill off Lando of course)
They wouldn't need to be recognizable insects.
Just little specks illuminated by the light. This could easily be achieved by setting up a light bulb outside, waiting for some little speck-like bugs to show up, and filming them for a few seconds. Then just screen the footage in. Simple as that. There wouldn't be remotely enough detail for anybody to recognize them as "Earth" bugs.
And I assume Ady is going to replace that horrible "ol' sad eyes" shot of the Wampa charging Luke in the cave?
Besides the TIE fighters colliding in the asteroid canyon, that's definitely the worst shot in the film.
You've become a victim of Youtube's fascist-like copyright censorship! xP
Upload it to vimeo. It takes longer to upload things there with a free account, but they're usually lenient with stuff like mockups and such.
We don't need to start a fight over something like this, LeadZero.
I'm sure everybody welcomes and enjoys seeing new ideas. But regardless of what people think of it, Adywan's already replied with his thoughts regarding the music of ESB, (and especially, through the many years of this project, his approach to ESB:R). The only thing sad about all this is when we can't accept our ideas getting shot down.
That being said - your idea might be great. Go and make a mockup of it and see how it works. But regardless of how well it works, as far as I understand, it will never work for Ady's ESB:R.
Ah, yeah.
I forgot to post one last preview video before I go to Japan for four months! xD
Oops! But it's true. I won't be posting any new material or edit updates for the next four months. Sorry to break the news to everybody!