Just created a mockup for a Clone Wars “ending montage” for a potential V.2. It’s very rough and has no sound effect or score, and is more of a proof of concept. It uses clips from the Dark Times and several other cinematics. When V.2 comes around I hope to make my own cinematics to match the aesthetic of the first clip from Dark Times. The purpose is to really cement home the idea that the Galaxy is now engaged in a full-scale war, and to adopt George Lucas’s early ROTS ideas of wanting a montage of the Clone Wars, albeit in a different way.
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/654684814
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I like the idea a lot of showing some of the Clone Wars in the movie. AOTC has always had a “blue balls” feeling in the ending for how it spends the whole movie building up the war and then ends right when it starts. That said, it feels a little weird just plopping in a 3 minute battle scene like that. I’d experiment with cutting back-and-forth between the movie footage of the clones with some quick cuts to the battle scenes.
Yeah I get that it does feel a little weird, and yeah I’ll definitely try the cutting back and forth. And I agree about the blue balls feeling, TPM really should’ve been the start of the Clone Wars, and AOTC should have really focused on the war itself and Anakin and Obi-Wan’s relationship. Nothing I can do to change that though that would be an insane edit.