Sky_ I have just had a thought about this gap in the footage where Luke run’s up the stairs.
as I said previously I thought it might have been the game table in the bar.
I don’t think that makes much sense though. I now think as Luke goes up away from his speeder in this gap before he comes over the other side we see the escape pod shooting across the sky in the distance. Then obviously the irony is that they missed all the action. It’s another gag as they all clamour to see nothing going on in the far reaches of the atmosphere the big action that was more close to home was totally missed with bad timing.
In terms of the Luke Binoculars segment I would cut that down to about 10 seconds max. Or even consider unuseable. but it is a very short scene. Absolutely no Treadwell in the sequence. It needs to be as quick as is possible luke fiddling spots something looks through binoculars fx shot jumps in speeder and drives off if it could be done in 7 seconds it would be about right.
The cut in point may be after the Tantive uderbelly star destroyet shot. When we cut to the corridor with 3p0 and R2-D2 this is replaced by Luke. On the Underbelly this is where I think the first escape pod is launched and destroyed and the explosion is what draws luke’s attention to the sky above. potentially you could cut straight to the binoculars fx shot and then just have luke drive off.
Having looked at the unbelly sequence again just now I have goune back to my original position. between the opening title and a long time ago. fade up binoculats fx luke jumps in land speeder drives off title card and opening crawl.
For Vader and Bast scene take a lead from the holiday special on how much of the footage you need to work on as this is the cut that was to be used.
The Luke a bigs and toushe station scenes work in their entireity I think.
The blue milk I imagine tops off at about 3 seconds only seeing the milk poured cut to dinner table.
Reason for saying this is to perhaps cut the workload down and only concentrate on what is useable.