So, for those who are interested in the process, here’s my UNFINISHED attempt to turn Lair of Grievous into the end of my Cloak of Darkness episode - I got it down to a tight 5:45.
Goals:
- Cut down as much as possible while showing that Gunray’s tracking was some kind of contingency/bonus trap
- Make Grievous seem as badass as possible
There’s dialogue and sound effects, but no music in this yet, because I didn’t get that far.
Essentially I worked through it, first restructuring the whole, then sequences, then scenes, then I added back in anything that I felt was necessary to make it flow right or fix new continuity errors I’d introduced.
This is the point I got it to where I decided that it ultimately wasn’t going to work.
The part where I realised it wouldn’t work was when I noticed that I couldn’t have Kit Fisto leave when there were clones alive. So I had to kill them off, without using the scenes where they die (because that would have drawn this out massively). So I tried to do an implied Grievous slaughter, using a quick shot of him (legless, but hoping you wouldn’t notice) diving at the clones then some sound effects of them dying, which I embedded in another scene of the clones calling for reinforcement but their ship getting blown up. It almost worked, but I think ultimately it’s just too rough, and moves too fast. At that point, the whole episode kind of collapsed as a possibility.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oN0Cc292i4f_oaPneWiA0ZqwahYkn9De/view?usp=sharing
Edit: Whoops, I cut this a little too short. Dooku says “So there is room for improvement.” and then it ends.
Real tight, but i think it works. Have to take a look on the original episode to see the whole part again.