The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released) — Page 112

Dendros said:

Hal 9000 said:

Nah, let’s not open a can of worms. I like the four ghosts we see thanks to John.

Understandable to not want to go overboard, I would petition to at least add Qui-Gon Jin for the following reasons:

-Every main character jedi’s force ghost from the entire main saga is now shown excluding only Qui-Gon.

-Qui-Gon was the one who discovered the way to appear as a force ghost in the first place, yet we have never seen him as one.

-It would tie in a little more significant material from the prequels and help mesh the entire saga together a little more.

While it would be lovely to see Qui-Gon again, in universe you never see him as a ghost (other than on Mortis in TCW) because he never fully completed his training with the Whills on manifesting, which explains why he is always just a voice… will Disney change this in the future with the Kenobi show, possibly?.. also this is a fan edit so I know that it’s not particularly beholden to current Canon. Just thought I’d put my two cents in.

JKMaxx said:

While we’re discussing the Force Ghosts scene, I want to ask since this soundtrack addition absolutely makes me feel like a hyped little kid; Hal, what do you think of the following from the redux ideas thread?

jonh said:

a quick test
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1p-M_FZG9Srkvcze0R7u8GOmjr6CyRJU4

The music feels very “epic trailer” to me, and feels out of place within the movie itself. It gave me chills too! But it felt like a trailer video.

Plan A to try at some point is what was originally scored for Rey catching the saber in TFA.

Tobar said:

Hal 9000 said:

Does anyone have any sound effects laying around that could depict bursting through the ice wall, maybe some shimmer or WOOoooosh of trailing off into hyperspace?

If you don’t mind spending a few dollars, this might work.

$8? Eeiish. I don’t know about that transition for right now but it’s unlikely I’ll get to give it much more attention for now.

jonh said:

I personally would not add any more ghosts …
two on each side is perfect! 😃

My plans were to add everyone you heard the voice of but I feel you delivered an excellent scene and it works perfectly as it is.

DarthYcey said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q_32BFqGac

This was kinda cool the first time I saw it, but it’s really busy. I love the subtlety to jonh’s ghosts more and that they stay there to fight rather than just possess Rey.

I liked the idea behind that. The first scene was pretty much what I was going for but the eye thing was a little Marvel for me.

That’s cool but I’m not pursuing that sort of thing for this project.

We’ve got a finite number of changes to bring about, remaining open to new ones. But once all loops are closed (changes implemented without any committed ones remaining), we close in on at least a V1 release.

JakeRyan17 said:

Re-scoring the entire film seems like so much work… even though it’s needed. I know for my cut, that’ll be what I do last.

Does the entire film need to be re-scored? Some parts are a bit lame, but this movie adds a lot of great music that I would hate to see replaced.

I think Anthem of Evil was used too sparingly in the film. I only really noticed it after a few watches, definitely needs to be emphasised throughout.
Super underrated:
https://youtu.be/PmgJSpHCGiI

idir_hh said:

I think Anthem of Evil was used too sparingly in the film. I only really noticed it after a few watches, definitely needs to be emphasised throughout.

Yeah, that’s one of the examples of “great music” I was talking about. I think re-scoring the entire movie using old music is the wrong approach. Instead we should emphasize the music that’s already there, and bring the score more in line with Williams’s intentions.

StarkillerAG said:

idir_hh said:

I think Anthem of Evil was used too sparingly in the film. I only really noticed it after a few watches, definitely needs to be emphasised throughout.

Yeah, that’s one of the examples of “great music” I was talking about. I think re-scoring the entire movie using old music is the wrong approach. Instead we should emphasize the music that’s already there, and bring the score more in line with Williams’s intentions.

Yeah I watched Sideways video a couple weeks ago and he explains how TROS really kind of missed the mark on the usually very well-thought out placement of Star Wars.

I think the most egregious examples of this are:

• Yoda’s theme being used when Luke lifted the X-Wing
• Luke and Leia’s theme used for Lando and Jannah (very weird)
• Under-representation of Prequel music (my opinion not from Sideways’ video)
  Possibilities for Prequel music are:
  -Battle of Heroes for Rey V. Ren on the DSII until the the TROS music starts
• The choir from Duel of the Fates for Rey meeting with Palpatine for the Sith Eternal
• And from my own testing Across the Stars in some capacity works very well with Ben reviving Rey
  (But I would recommend that that there be some remixing, maybe slower or deeper or mixed in with the TROS music that goes on during this scene… really anything done will probably be good)

Yoda’s theme during the X-wing’s resurrection makes sense. It harkens back to Luke who didn’t think he could do it, which was where his head was at for most of the ST, and hits home how he’s grown and changed throughout this story.

The music that played as Luke revealed to Leia that they were family plays as Lando reaches out to serve as a father figure to Jannah, and he may very well be. This is a bit of shorthand, and is the only thing that tells the savvy viewer that he’s not just picking her up.

I like the music as Ben dies. It touches on the big theme of the movie on the soundtrack that strikes me as a combination of Kylo’s and Rey’s themes, which is nice. I don’t really want to shoehorn in a love theme between other characters into that moment.

I can’t seem to find the post of a video someone did of moving Rey’s line “nothings impossible” to after Leia hands her the saber.

Anyone have that?

Life is just kicking my ass. I think next time I can sit down (or kneel 🙄) to edit, I’ll work on the civilian fleet arrival since that should be fun.

The idea originally came from one of Movies Remastered’s videos, I did a quick mockup of it here:
https://vimeo.com/413363922

Thank you! I knew someone nailed it, thanks for that.