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Post #1489940

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smpearce1981
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KENOBI: A STAR WARS STORY [The Radical "Help Me Obi-Wan Kenobi" Cut]
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23-Jun-2022, 3:02 AM

I love your duel editing, and despite advocating to keep Reva, I think I am glad you have decided to be brave enough to cut all of her Ep6 inclusion away.

Anyhow, here’s a knitpick:

IMO the only part of the duel footage that needs a change is the establishing shot at 1:01 -

(https://streamable.com/ebtorm)

As we no longer cut away, we no longer need an establishing shot.

I couldn’t help but feel that the slow panning, dark, wide shot is quite jarring especially when it’s so massively juxtaposed against the up-close, lightsaber lit, intimacy of the duel in peak flow as obi-wan lunges in the shot immediately before?

I think the duel would massively benefit from just cutting into another shot from the main choreography to keep the pace up.

I just don’t think that the overall environment is dramatic or ‘interesting’ enough that you would miss an unnecessary ‘eye candy’ shot that now would only exist to depict a sense of scale?

If the location had been really visually interesting or it’s features relevant to the progression of the battle, maybe it could be justified but such as it is, with no cutting back and forth between plot points/locations, it’s inclusion is now just superfluous and quite disruptive to the flow of the duel?

Anyhow, that was my only observation/feedback from your amazing work here. 😃