Originally posted by: Commander Courage

Well it can't look cut and paste. I don't know why we can't try. The dialogue can be arranged so that the "official" hologram is actually replying by standing there stoically-- it can be made to feel organic. That is, of course, the final test.

My point is if we want more than just a longshot or the stoic close-up of Grievous, it will look cut and paste as the close-up of a darkened Sidious hologram will not match up with the official shot of Grievous.

Right, we can't use any darkened Sidious close-ups-- that's for sure.

There is a medium close profile of Sidious against a black background that's all hood-- and ripe for the taking. Any over the shouler/profile of Sidious that doesn't show his face will match with the close up of Maul-- as long as the backgrounds can be made to work.

The whole scene would be a lot easier if we could stage it on the droid ship, I wonder if that can be made to work.

At any rate-- the scene will be short enough that a long shot and a close up and an over the shoulder are all we'll need. We do have those.

The title will come. Good idea to start the crawl. I'll start editing the script for the opening to give us something to work from.

EDITED TO ADD:

I have had a reverse change of heart about the title -- and I have two points to make about it.

I am back to voting for just "Star Wars" and no sub-title. This works fine with the other "episodes" -- this is STAR WARS, and the next one is STAR WARS Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side. In fact, I like that immensely as an "homage" to the original release as well as the idea that this "episode" is supposed to be able to stand alone as the first of the saga.

And secondly, it's what Trooperman wanted -- and I want this to be the Trooperman version (once he surfaces again).

InfoDroid-- can you live with this? I know CC was on this side with me for a minute there. I believe this is a way to really set this edit apart and go all "OT" on people right from the start. Imagine: the original Fox logo; the original "Long time ago..."; then STAR WARS followed only by the text of the crawl-- It'll really make this the FIRST movie.

Anyway. Script coming...