This whole Mustafar thing is starting to border on fan film for me, personally. We have repurposed footage from Rogue One, National Geographic, and Battlefront 2, but in the end the scene is still going to be as rushed, choppy, and poorly explained as it was in the theater. If anything, it might be getting more confusing to follow (we’re currently at three very different establishing shots). None of Hal’s edits have felt this “fan film” before, and that’s not even accounting for all the other crazy special effects stuff that’s going into this fan edit.
On that note, I’m also not totally sold on Rey’s outtake visuals for her final line. It’s a weird camera angle for such a dramatic moment (which makes sense, because it’s B-roll), and it also has an odd sort of slow-motion effect when she turns.
That’s the thing about the Mustafar minute, though: It’s so poorly edited in the released film that there’s really only two options for making it work in a fan-edit: Completely creating the elements you need to make it work as a piece of visual storytelling, or jettisoning it altogether.
The simplest, fastest, and cleanest method to “fix” the Mustafar Minute is to just delete it (in terms of visual or narrative info it’s almost completely useless and unnecessary), but I understand why people are loath to do that, there’s multiple reasons why people would prefer to try rescuing the footage that’s there. But the only way you can rescue that footage in the opening is to augment it with stuff that either was never shot, or was shot but is completely unavailable to anyone making the fan-edit.
The only other option is to lean into how disjointed and nonsensical it already is and use it solely as flashback fodder, mixed in with a vision that contains other flashbacks and flashforwards.
however: I think the alternate angle of Rey saying “Rey Skywalker” is actually BETTER than what’s in the film - I disagree that it’s a weird camera angle, I think it’s honestly a unique choice to feature the hero in profile declaring her hero status overtly (that’s what the scene really is), and I think it works better because of that - it’s very “comic book cover”