That’s really awesome. Definitely seemed like you were more than amateur! St. Andrews is a lovely town- great beaches if they’re not full of jellyfish! I’m an Edinburgher, currently on holiday at Loch Tay, so I know the area! 😉
It’s good to have you with us, I think the community would agree that we’re really enjoying the fresh eye you bring with your videos. Star Wars editing, especially of the prequels, has gone through a couple of phases, each growing on the last, over the last couple of decades. I’d argue we’re in the third phase of that right now with AI voice lines and so on being available, and a lot of your cuts are novel even in this fertile environment.
Your goals are interesting - also novel, they’re a bit more aligned to the mythological/poetical narrative language than we’re used to - but I think it’s likely we’ll see edits stealing many of your scenes in future. Something a little more aligned to canon, perhaps Hal’s detail + Spence’s pacing + your scenes + elements of restructuring from all three, with a dash of new CG and AI voicelines, could be very appealing here.
Whahey! An Edinburger, eh? I hope you’ve got Tay FM blasting away as you drive around the ol’ loch! Can’t say enough good things about your wee country, mate, except how Scotland performed in this last 6 Nations. What were our lads doing!?! In all seriousness, I owe a huge debt of gratitude to St. A’s for taking in a public school student from South Carolina and providing a world class education at a price I could barely afford. There was no chance I could have afforded a degree like that in the States.
Yeah I have to say, whenever someone on YouTube gets a bit cross about how I mess up the canon, I laugh a little bit, because the whole point of my cut is that the canon doesn’t exist yet. Since in filmmaking the “writing” process extends into the editing, I really wanted to practice that aspect of editing, which meant I couldn’t be precious with the canon. All that being said, if anyone wants to steal anything I’ve been doing, I’m more than happy to help out with other more “canon-aligned” cuts if the need arises. A lot of my best sequences don’t mess with the canon at all (I’m particularly proud of my version of the Arena Battle), and I recomposited several shots across the saga, so if anyone needs those just gimme a shout! There are also quite a few cheeky work arounds that I’ve come up with that I don’t think anyone else has (I found a novel and very effective way for Artoo to get captured on the Invisible Hand), so if you or anyone else has run into a dead end on their edit, feel free to PM me. I may or may not have a solution.