I played about with some ideas on the opening.

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…

It feels like we are meant to see a sequence before the Star Wars Logo.

Rebel Spies have won there first victory against the empire. I toyed with making the actual opening the sequence before the logo but it did not really work.

I’m not using treadwell droid and luke binoculars because it just does not work well enough. In it’s stead I started trying to think of a way to show perhaps the tantive receiving the transwission and the chase starting… But I don’t want to waste time trying to force things in. Let me know if you have any ideas but I want to stay away from using Rogue One footage generally unless it is very subtle this sequence could be very short like 10 seconds but it would have to get across enough info in that very short time span.
So any way listening to opening cue starfield drop down to planet (big bass note) then menacing strings build up.

This got me thinking these menacing strings should flip us back away from the planet to depths of space only to then return on the big brass hits and the tantive / star destroyer going over camera. Please let me know if you can feel that or envisage that.

I have the whole opening part in a changed order that makes absolute good sense and works better although I have shortened it a bit. The best new discovery (i had preexisting edit) was making C3P0 say “Whats that” after they are clamped in. This has made a huge but great difference amongst shortening this part.

There is definitely something wrong with the opening (bar misaligned frames) even just looking at the opening shot although it’s great it feels like the Tantive is too high in the frame and that means you can no longer see the lasers hitting the tantive or the lasers being fired by the Star Destroyer… I am thinking about lowering the position of the ship and perhaps hightening the Star Destroyer as a fix on this but have not tried anything yet. Any Thoughts?