I haven't been saying much lately, but at this stage, what is there left to say? It's been well over a year (heck, a year and a half!), and I can't wait to finally see the end result after all this time. Just wanted to let you know I'm still following and supporting "Shroud of the Dark Side"!

(No pressure, but after waiting this long, I'm expecting something amazing.

)

"Well that's the real trick, isn't it?" Ha ha! I hope I meet expectations. It's kind of hard because you all know a lot of the surprises beforehand....

Actually, MagnoliaFan himself took a couple years on "Balance of the Force." It's just that it didn't bother anybody because nobody knew about it until it was complete and out in the open. The nature of this project (lots of fan help and input) made that impossible. Also, I didn't actually start editing on the software I'm using now until July/August of last year. And on top of that, last year was a very busy time for me and the amount of time I had to work on this was very, very limited.

However, I believe that this will be successful. If there are technical glitches, then I will fix them for Version 2.0 (which will include a dual-layer release). But I think that even if there are a couple aspects that are technically lacking, the actual content of this movie is gold. The acting is for the most part wonderful, which is pretty amazing because none of us are professional actors that I know of. You'll be suprised, I think, about how much it does NOT sound like an amateur "fan-film". Pacing-wise, music wise, and acting-wise, I think it's great. Technically, there are some dodgy moments that hopefully will be corrected in time for release.

Right now, I'm working on completing the whole Anakin/Dooku/Obi-Wan/Yoda sequence, the Clone War, and Uncle Owen. I actually had two auditions for Uncle Owen, one from "THX" and one from Sluggo. I want to thank you both tremendously for filling the void that the original actor left behind. I ultimately chose Sluggo's recording because it sounded the most similar to Phil Brown. I get tickled to pieces watching this scene (between Anakin, Owen, and 3po), knowing that the entire conversation is newly created. My only issue is a bit of lip synch difficulty, but I will get around that.

Originally posted by: PaulisDead2221

(1 year later)
Trooperman: Oh they laughed at me, but who's laughing now?! Muahahahah!

Just something funny I thought I'd bring up. One year and of course I'm still skeptical, but optimistically skepetical of course

Ha ha! I'll save the gloating until SOTDS is in my DVD player and fully functioning without any glitches. But yeah, I remember posting that- that was a while ago. I think it was more irritation that I wasn't getting good, intelligent feedback like I'm getting with you guys. This thread was originally in General Discussion, and I didn't feel like people were taking me seriously. And they weren't, of course