I haven’t gotten the time to finetune all the foley and audio levels, and I threw this together while watching Champions League (xDDD), so feel free to give feedback if you want the 5.1 mp4 file and some changes made to it.
General list of changes (used snooker’s music-free stereo track for the center channel):
- 5.1 surround, with custom surround ambience, sounds etc.
- Color graded to look like AotC’s color grading (increased glow in background, less bright colors, more vintage)
- Rescored to feel upbeat and hopeful, as their relationship should be at this time. Only foreshadowing is at the end, with Anakin’s and Padme’s Love Theme and then the mother theme to accompany Anakin’s facial expression.
- Edited it to be less obvious it consists of chopped parts, by removing “Anakin’s Victory”. It destroys flow imo.
Picture for reference: https://media.doblu.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Star-Wars-Attack-of-the-Clones.mkv_snapshot_00.07.11_2020.04.08_14.19.26-scaled.jpg
Oh, and Streamable has compressed it to a stereo file so some of the background ambience might be/is louder than in the 5.1 surround file.
Very impressive sound work. I love the little details, like being able to hear cars whizzing by. Not sure about the edit at the end. It does flow a little better, but Obi-Wan’s speech to Anakin about his need for victory blinding him doesn’t really make sense without seeing his premature celebration before that. Also, I like that part for establishing Anakin’s desire for validation from a father figure, which Palpatine takes advantage of later.
Coloring seems pretty good as well. There’s always gonna be room for improvement, but I think we’re in the territory where there’s other reshoot scenes that stick out worse. The scene in TPM where Anakin visits Padme on Coruscant, for example.