So I think it is time for an update, a lot has happened since the last time.
Approximatly 60 percent of the edit is done, however I did make some additional changes to those I outlined earlier. For example I changed the crowd reaction to Padme’s speech in the senate, now she gets applauded and I added Anakin to the scene. I figured it might be nice if we had a scene where he shows genuine interest in her political career. I trimmed the speeder chase and dropped the industrial district part as well as a lot of the bickering between Anakin and Obi-Wan. Then I trimmed the Dex’s Dinner scene and reordered some of the dialogue. I also cut the first part of the deleted scene on the landing platform, the bits that take place inside the hangar. Other than that I shortened the arrival on Naboo scene and cut the bits of Anakin in Padme’s father talking in the garden. The biggest changes where made to the dogfight between Obi-Wan and Fett.
I reconstructed the scene a lot to remove most of the shots with geonosis in the background. Now Obi-Wan arrives at Kamino and gets greeted with one seismic charge (not two), then Jango opens fire, then Obi-Wan flies through the asteroid to evade the blaster fire and then he gets targeted by a missile. I also removed any footage that showed Jango or Boba piloting the Slave I, this way the identity of the attacker remains a mystery and adds to the kamino plot. This works brilliantly with Taun We’s line, which expresses that they have been awaiting him.
And in regards to the kamino plot I have made some slight alterations to the structure of the second half of the movie, to make room for the deleted analysis archive scene. Now Obi-Wan visits the analysis archive on kamino after he spoke to Jango, to find out more about the toxic dart and the droid tells him that the toxin is only found on Bogden. Obi-Wan then realizes that Jango must be the bounty hunter who shot Zam and rushes off to fight him on the landing platform. I had seen this idea executed in poorandin’s edit of AOTC and liked it a lot, so I decided to include this, as it shows Obi-wan acting autonomously. I also trimmed the fight on the landing platform to remove Obi-Wan hanging there for hours.
I think that is it for now. Currently I am working on some vision sequences for Anakin utilizing footage from BOBF. I am planning to include three vision in my final edit, one in the beginning after Anakin has been knocked out by the robot arm in the factory, one in the middle as his nightmare and one in the finale playing as a flashback that hits Anakin as Dooku is about to deliver the killing blow to Obi-Wan.