Sky_ said:
It’s Always amazing seeing other people tackle this awfully Damaged deleted footage
I can learn a lot from the process you’re doing in certain places on my Repair work(if directed at me), then Thank you Sky_ …like I said looking at your 2018 kind of got me kickstarted in having a go at it.
I think restoration of this nature is also a process in which yes, you try something and then maybe come back later and try something else or see what others have done and it grows. I definitely understand the needing to walk away from a scene and do another after looking at the same image/s over and over 😃 as I think you may have mentioned in a post.It’s challenging, that is for sure, sometimes I think these restorations are more work than shooting a new scene from scratch
I appreciate both your hard efforts and fruit572 for the work done so far sometimes only a small snippet of footage can make a scene work much better yet without sound it can also mean nothing. Whilst I don’t want to detract from the great work you guys are doing in anyway. The reason I am posting is to hopefully lessen your workload.
Pacing and timing are something very important and with Raw deleted footage some footage might fall away, similarly a piece of footage you might think is totally insignificant might become important to make something work.
The Footage and the Sound are inseparable however you can have sound without footage and footage without sound and purposefully so yet it is the two in unison that will truly bring these scenes to life.
I think I have found the music cue for Luke Looking at the Space battle through his binoculars… It’s a guess but an educated guess? But it would radically change the start of the film. There are many questions about the start of the film and trying to understand how it might have been originally planned to be put together or what the initial cut looked like and sounded like.
My technique I have developed over the years is similar to a Chinese puzzle where you have a single blank square in order to organize a whole complete picture, yet in this part of the film it is like a Chinese puzzle with many duplicated shots or repeated shots AND scenes in the incorrect order. All of this has to be taken into consideration but when you get say a couple of things right generally the rest starts to fall into place.
The Luke macro binoculars scene in Tattooine 1 may actually of been purposefully intended to be split out across at least 2 or perhaps 3 different parts of the film.
I have a few days off and I will be trying to sort as much as I can.
Be sure though keep up the good work you guys are doing 😃