Aside from a few technical glitches, I think it looks great! I’m not sure what’s going on, but that’s probably my fault for not paying attention all the time. I trust that it’ll all come together when the project is complete!
Ha! That’s fair. The audience would have heard/seen Galen’s explanation about what the weapon actually does before this point. So what I’m trying to show here is:
- Hux is broadcasting his speech, as Samuel L Jackson once said, as some cold-blooded mess to say before you pop a cap in someone.
- Tarkin Base shoots the cannon, and the beam enters hyperspace on its way to Hosnian Prime. Which is essentially what Disney said was happening in TFA but they didn’t film any material to give the viewer that impression. I’m trying to rectify that.
- As it is in hyperspace, Leia’s people (and one would assume the inhabitants of Hosnian Prime as well) start getting readings of the hyperspace distortion this massive about of raging energy is causing as it prepares to fall back into regular space. Leia knows her Senate colleague Holdo was there voting on the Senate resolution to impose sanctions on the Empire (which we’ll kinda see before this), so we imply that she makes a desperate call to try and give Holdo & crew any warning, even tho Threepio confirms everyone there is screwed.
- Holdo was already about the leave the system anyway. so she escapes but stays long enough to see the beam coming in because I just love the visual of her staring it and the Empire down.
The red tinting, if I haven’t mentioned it before, is from the idea that in the B&W version, things that are connected to the Force are given color. So the Force Duels are in full color, and things like lightsabers, DS beams, hyperspace, and kyber crystals should have some tint to them.