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Post #165187

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MTHaslett
Parent topic
The legendary "Starkiller Ranch" Thread
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Date created
23-Dec-2005, 2:09 PM
Well, InfoDroid, I was just looking at the first pages of the MagFan thread yesterday and saw how much grief he got in his initial releases -- yet his are generally accepted as the best edits around. We just have to go for our own standard and live with whatever reaction comes. There will be time to change the really important things on the 2.0 edits in a couple years

I think our standard for alien dialogue should be simply to outdo MagFan's original back-mastered foreign tracks. You've already done that. Avoid "Allah's" if it's easy. Leave 'em if it's not -- We have to pick our battles. Our method allows different passes for different emphasis -- If we get the story right, Trooperman's pass can be for his strength in aesthetics (music, alien dialogue, photo-effects, etc.). We'll have an incredible leg-up on things when it's gone past all the people here at Starkiller Ranch.

To avoid being torn to shreds on stuff that isn't ready, I advise we keep clips to a minimum and reveal only what's ready for mass consumption. Let the "shredding" occur at the level of ideas -- concepts, script, things where everyone's thoughts, opinions, pet peeves, rants and fangs are invaluable and constructive.

Have we looked at the different "Klingon-ese" dialogue from Star Trek releases (TV and movies)? There is such a wealth of alien dialogue from that catalogue that I bet there's a lot of unrecognizable alien sounding dialogue to mine. [I mean for additional characters like the Gungan, the Pod Race announcers, whatever-- not the Nemoidians who are already perfect]

Just a thought.