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natedeug's The Last Jedi Polished edit V3 (FINAL) (Released) — Page 2

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natedeug said:

TLJ Polished jacket

“Star the Last Polished Edition Jedi Wars”

Looks great!

JEDIT: What’s that font on the back you used for the crawl?

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snooker said:

JEDIT: What’s that font on the back you used for the crawl?

ITC Serif Gothic, it’s what they’re using for Episode names officially now.

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ChainsawAsh said:

Hell yeah, thank you so much! Love that logo design.

Inkscape is a good program to use to make workable png images from even low res jpgs.

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I’d be really interested to see your version, in terms of the edits, it is pretty much exactly what I wanted if I were to try my own.

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After a few months taken to reflect further on the movie, I can now present a, hopefully, final Version 2 of my edit. Below are the changes I’ve made for v2. I think the result is much more “polished” now. I have an MP4 available for those who would like one, and will have a DVD5 soon.

• Cut BB-8 spinning around to get Finn’s attention before showing him the recording of Rey
– Also cut Finn thanking BB-8 for recording that moment, as a hand can be seen moving BB-8. Scene now ends on Finn’s thoughtful face looking at the transmitter, hard cut to black as he opens the locker and tries to leave.
• Kept little casino character using BB-8 as a slot machine, but cut the belching. This is necessary because later we hear BB-8 rolling around with change in his innards.
• Cut clothes iron “landing scene”, now cuts from mutiny to deleted infiltration scene
• Infiltration scene lacks long room with Ralph Ineson following our heroes suspiciously. This removes the unfinished roof effect as well as the man moving BB-8 around. Also cut exchange between Stormtrooper and Finn in the elevator. Now Finn straightens the clothes of DJ and Rose, puts a waste basket on BB-8’s head, and the scene resumes as in the movie, on the long shelf next to the elevators with the black droid spotting them.
• Movie ends as in theatrical release. As much as I wanted to end on the Falcon shot and include a mid-credits broom boy, it just doesn’t work out. The ending is too fast.

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Version 3, the absolute final thing I’m doing with this, is available now.

I’ve used poppasketti’s fantastic edit in Snoke’s throne room as well as pleasehello’s transition from Luke mourning.

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I think the elevator scene with a stormtrooper recognizing Finn is a fantastic idea. It shows that the First Order is a dictatorship with a propaganda machine that kept Finn’s defection a secret from its troops. The dialogue itself isn’t bad either. There’s tension, there’s humour. The thing is… Tom Hardy just botched it. Sorry, but his delivery is awful. I bet that’s the real reason they cut the entire sequence.

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Totally agree. It would’ve been a little interaction that would help humanize stormtroopers more. I think that whole interaction would have been fine if that Stormtrooper just had an average American accent. I think redubbing him is totally doable with a decent voice actor. I think the butt slap could be cut too, but some people might like that.