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Originally posted by: ricarleite
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Originally posted by: D0CT0R_W40
We definately have enough people that can get interviews done, but what about other footage? Basically anything we want to say needs footage to go with it.

Does anyone have any footage that we could fit in for voice-overs?

We need as much GL interviews as we can get. Hopefully we can have him contradicting himself.

We also need some interviews from crewmembers, need some footage from all Star Wars versions, and the usual stuff, such as the famous line outside the theater footage from 1977, images from posters, from ads, and so on...

For the purposes of this documentary, we only need be interested in GL contradicting himself if it is directly relavent to our cause, and even then, we shouldn't dwell on him, but the situation.

With all the making-of features and featurettes between the official DVDs and all the stuff that people like Rowman have put on DVD there should be plenty of footage of GL and crew interviews. The "Making of Star Wars as told by C-3PO and R2-D2" has footage of the Mann's Chinese Theater line, and so does "From Star Wars To Jedi" I think. That stuff won't be difficult to compile. We also need a complete list of changes to the SE's, and now the 2004 DVDs, and footage of the major changes but that won't be a problem. We just need to decide which changes we mention and which we focus on. But always the focus should not be that we don't like the changes but that we only want the original version preserved and available on DVD. We don't want to go off on rants bashing the changes, we should take the attitude (for the purposes of the doc) that we don't mind the changes, but we want to have the original as well. Ideally the viewer shouldn't be able to tell if we like the changes or not, just that we also want the original version to be available. And ripping on GL will NOT be a wise strategy to take, that will alienate not only GL but a large amount of potential supporters.

I think that stuff will be relatively easy, just time consuming to come up with a script for how we will edit it and what the narration will say (and the actual editing, of course). The hard part will be collecting usable footage of interviews of people in the present time. If anyone knows any film historians, film preservationists, or any other type of expert like that, please get them to sit for an interview (but don't film any hoax interviews, we need credibility). Also, if we do anything like interview common fans at conventions, we must stress to them that the footage won't be useable if they use profanity and/or go off on a diatribe against GL. The more professional this looks the better.