Sluggo, your description matches what I had originally planned for this scene. But... MTHaslett convinced me otherwise. He said that if I'm going to include this scene, Padme cannot suspect that Anakin is serious about the dictator thing- it has to be a complete tease, and the scene has to end this way. Because if she believes he is serious, this would turn her off very much. Since I'm dubbing Anakin, I can help this along even more by sounding playful and not serious.
Remember how this scene goes in my cut- we have a "Sound of Music" type thing with establishing shots of the green mountains and Naboo scenery (with full-blown love theme). We fade to Anakin and Padme rolling around on grass. Then, we go to their conversation. This shows a passage of time and their falling in love, implying that more is going on than we're seeing. But yes, this scene will be in SotDS.
How's everything on the dubbing side? I can't begin to imagine the difficulty in getting the slaughter confession just right. That was one of Hayden's better acted scenes (He actually displays emotion and it didn't feel awkward to watch). *I* must confess that I'm super eager to see what you've done with it since it probably requires a little more intensity performance-wise. Think about the last time you were really angry... That might help?
The dubbing is going a little slowly- I need to start really getting on that. But if you remember, Anakin doesn't actually tell Padme about his slaughter in my cut. Again, Padme would be very much turned off upon discovering that Anakin goes around murdering people when he gets upset. Anakin might have a soliloquy or voice-over at the beginning or end of the scene, but maybe not; it depends on how it works, if it isn't corny, and if it fits with the overall style.
Maybe it would be a good idea for someone to compile a list of all the changes Trooperman has discussed and confirmed throughout this thread and tack it to the first post of the first page so we can reference it? Is that even possible?
That would be entirely possible, and I would do it if I had the time. In fact, I probably will have to do it, because even I'm forgetting some of your comments and the things I had decided 15 pages ago...if someone could go through and summarize for me, that would be great. I'd post it on the front page.
Oh, and since you are doing such cool things to this film, could you put in a 1138 in there somewhere? Somehow it is not a Star Wars film with out it.
Absolutely! But you may need to remind me of it in the future.
I don't know if you have the RotS DVD yet
No, I didn't get it yet. I should probably get that soon...
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THE CONFERENCE SCENE DILEMMA
conference problem
The clip above, again, is unfinished. Most noticeably, the transition is wrong and something is wrong with the beginning of the closeup of Palpatine- easily fixed. I just rendered the unfinished footage from the storyboard. But the thing is....notice how in the first wide shot of the conference room, Mace and the white bearded fellow talk, but it is very clear that their lips aren't moving. I could crop them out of the shot using the full-screen DVD, but that would completely butcher the framing of this shot, and I don't want to do it by any means. The only solution seems to be to somehow subtlely blur Windu's mouth only, so that it is unclear whether his lips are moving or not. I can't really do this, though- I have a really hard time doing professional looking shots that only change a small part of the frame. Maybe I can make a request in the General Preservation forum for someone else to do this one shot for me?
It's coming, guys
