Hey all,
I have been working on some revisions after reviewing all available source footage (something I hadn’t really done in years). I’ll spare the details (which you can find on my corresponding fanedit.org thread or on fanedits reddit), here are the main ideas:
- Added 2 deleted shots of Dwarves in cells (from Appendices) into Woodland Realm
- Laketown sequence extended by 1 minute, many felt it was too quick. Now it’s as long as possible, given available footage. Added a few more shots/5 lines of dialogue back into Smaug-Bilbo sequence.
- Improved “Last Light” scene to feel much more smooth.
- Redone Ravenhill sequence to relate back to the flow of the battle in the book a bit more, while still being just as cinematically satisfying and enjoyable, hopefully also feeling like it “drags on” a bit less
- Various tidying up here and there, full changelog will come
If anyone else has suggestions, now is the time. After comparing my edit to the source footage again, I really feel confident that every possible shot has been contemplated. Don’t want anything left on the table, hopefully am able to deliver the most book-accurate extended edition style adaptation of The Hobbit possible with the footage we have.
Fantastic! Glad to see new work flow and revisions of this incredible piece of film editing and visual tweaking which has been made posible. I am most interested in removing all irrelevant and in your face shots of Far Easterling and Haradwaith people in the shots at Lake Town, and in the encampment after the death of Smaug the Magnificent.
I will do a following post with timestamps and indication as to where they are, so if you desire to flip and switch shots, or maybe add BTS footage, you can do so.