It’ll almost definitely work- the only trouble now is getting a German language DVD for Episode I. I have to have this so that I know I’ll be able to do Jar-Jar for Ep. I in the same way. There’s a guy on Ebay that’s been trying to sell a German copy of Ep. II on DVD for ages now, but so far I’ve not come across Ep. I. Here’s hoping!
"Darth Dooku": This could all work very well into a possible Maul=Grevious subplot, as Dooku will in no way be reffered to as "Darth." (And I know you'll be changing Yoda's line, but it still makes more sense mind my mind). Of course Palpatine refers to him as a Sith Lord in RotS, so unless you'd want to edit around that, he'll simply be "Count Dooku: Sith Lord."
Exactly. He’s a Sith lord, but he’s so temporary and unimportant that he doesn’t even get the “Darth” title. (so I’m definitely not going to take out the Palpatine/Obi-Wan exchange).
For the end of Episode 2, I'd suggest either cutting Sidious 1st line, or pluging in a Palpatine "Count Dooku" from RotS.
I’ll see if I can plug in a “Count Dooku” from either Ep. II or III.
Queen/Senator Amidala: If I understand correctly, the plan is Padme is a born Queen, but she's reffered to as Senator in 2&3 as it is the capacity she is currently serving in?
Yes.
Where does that leave the line, "I was the youngest queen ever elected, and I'm not sure I was ready," and the rest of Anakin and Padme's walk on Naboo for that matter?
In a big mess. However, I can edit it so that they still have a conversation and not contradict the new scenario in any way. Starting with the complete unedited scene from Disc 2 on the official DVD:
Anakin: When I first started my training, I was very homesick. Etc. etc. until…
Anakin: Tell me- did you dream of power and politics when you were a little girl?
Padme: No, that was the last thing I thought of. DIALOGUE CUT…
Padme: Actually, I had hoped to have a family of my own by now. My sister has the most amazing, wonderful kids.
Padme: But when I was asked to serve as Senator, I couldn’t refuse. (edited from “but when the queen asked me to serve as Senator, I couldn’t refuse her”)
And scene continues until end.
Obviously, some lines would be dubbed over different video so it doesn’t appear as though they jumped from one place to the next. Actually…maybe not. Maybe I’ll just do a hard cut. In any case, it will work and the scene will remain in the film.
Were you still going to bring this up in a Gunray/Dooku conversation? If not, what were plans on how to do that?
No- no Gunray/Dooku conversation, because she explains why she was a Senator during the walk on Naboo. (she was asked to serve). It’s no longer necessary.
Only then she was still referred to as "Princess," which is what I was suggesting be altered with Padme, a few references to "Queen" here and there.
I can incorporate that as well, as a reminder that she is still the Queen as well. So she gets both titles, but is usually called Senator now. I could say “Queen Amidala” instead of “Senator Amidala” in the opening crawl, but 1. The .AI file is already finished and Jeten San Hett is working on scrolling it, and 2. This would introduce confusion when the pilot addresses the decoy as “Senator”. (I kept the interior scene, but I cropped from the full-screen DVD, removed the decoy’s badly read line (“very good, lieutenant”), and added a subtle ship beeping noise in the right channel. I think I already said that the film is done from the end of the opening crawl to the establishing shot of the conference room with Palpatine and the others.
It’s interesting to note, CC, that I had already made many of the cuts you suggested in a previous post, albeit for different reasons.
did he ever reveal to you his way of removing the nowhere subplot of Syfo-Dias ordering the clones? I'm not asking for this apparently secret info, but was curious as to whether you had a way/were going to use his way in SotDS?
He was kind enough to let me in on this, but since he PM’d me about it I would assume that he wants it to be a surprise. It is a very good solution and I will be using it as well.
Screencaps: WOW. There is no argument the environments look unquestionably improved and realistic. However, Anakin and Padme's skin seems to have turned blue as a side effect. Is there any way around this?
There are definitely ways to reduce this. For the closer-up shots of Anakin or Padme, I can bring back some of the original saturation to get the flesh tones back. Not too much, though. I wouldn’t do this with far shots. I’ll work with it some more and post some screenshots at a later time.
Something else- The Geonosians never actually fire their guns. The humour here is that they were all given guns but are incapable of using them. They point them at people (like Anakin), but they never quite have the brainpower or the reflexes to pull the trigger in time. So the weird sonic blasts are cut.
Arena/Clone War extravaganza- This is so big and so time-consuming I don’t even want to start worrying about it until I have to.
Overall progress on project- The Jedi Council scene immediately following the Coruscant part of the film has been pretty much completed, with dubbing. I haven’t got the greatest microphones, but I have very good noise-reduction technology that’s allowing me to get good results. The big trouble with this scene is that my line has to fit in perfectly with everything surrounding it. There’s no music to cover anything up, no sound effects- nothing. That made this scene difficult to do, and eventually I had to rerecord the dialogue using a different technique. In the end, the scene is very successful and the interaction between the real actors and myself is seamless.
So what has been done so far:
1.Nightmare (without sound effects)
2.Landing on Coruscant/Decoy is killed/transition into next scene- completely finished
3.Jedi Council scene- almost finished
4.Droid factory- work in progress
5.Dark tunnel with Geonosians- ADR completed, playing with colors
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