One of the last scenes I haven't completed yet is actually the garage scene, because to be honest, it looks weird to me too- I think you lose the illusion that the voice actually matches with the character. Someone mentioned that it could be because Hayden is opening his mouth really wide throughout that scene, and that's why it's looking funny. That could be.
It could be that I'll have to do another recording session and do the garage scene again (which I'm not looking forward to, because you have to make your voice sound hoarse before recording). I'll see.
The other problem I'm having in completing this scene is the music. I actually thought that the original cue for this particular scene was very good. But I can't use it. It's not on the soundtrack, they never released an extended soundtrack, and when I checked the surround channels, Hayden's voice is in all of the tracks. A clean recording of that cue is impossible.
So this scene is still in progress, definitely.
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Trooperman, have you added any music the asteroid field chase? If you haven't gone through that yet, how about "Scherzo for Motorcycle" from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade?
Actually, I already have music for that scene, which is already very specifically synchronized with the footage. I also don't have the soundtrack for Last Crusade (I'll have to pick it up sometime).
I'm glad people like the new "dusk" setting- this was actually really difficult to pull off, so much so that Laserschwert (the first FX person) wasn't able to change it in AfterEffects without spending a lot of time on it. So I did it myself, and I think it works well. One really hard part was that Anakin's face had a strong pink border around it after the color correction (due to problems with the original compositing, I think). That's pretty much gone now.
As for the "eh" line....ha ha! That wasn't even scripted; it just came out during the recording session because it's how I would react to what Padme was saying. I hope it doesn't come off as a Han Solo knock-off...
Can I also try and make some kind of a poster for this movie? I'd like to try.. Not sure if I can, but it's nice to try--
Hi Falle. I would love you to do a poster for this movie, because I know what a great graphics person you are from the DVD cover thread. I've downloaded all of the covers from your sites as well- I'd love to see what you could do with this. Thanks for posting in the thread!
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I now have both versions of the character of Jar-Jar. I'm considering posting two versions of a clip- one with Sluggo's version, and one with hairy_hen's version, and get your feedback. I think I know what I'm going to go with, but I hope it won't be too jarring.
Just to recap:
Sluggo did a recording of Jar-Jar a while back. It was very Ahmed Best-eque: I almost couldn't tell the difference between the voices. The difference is that he was reading the new dialogue. Very usable recording.
But Hairy_hen did a recording of Jar-Jar with a lower-English accent, which is pretty much a complete departure from the Jar-Jar that we know (he also did a Scottish Jar-Jar, which I don't think I will use). It's really very entertaining, though.
Part of me says that using hairy_hen's dialogue, people are going to be jarred every time Jar-Jar opens his mouth (because we haven't heard Jar-Jar talking like this before- ever. Ep. I hasn't been made yet.
But the other part of me says that if people are jarred by Jar-Jar, they're going to be jarred by a heck of a lot more in this movie. You can't really go into it thinking about "Attack of the Clones"- it doesn't work. If before you sit down, you try to erase your memory of "Attack of the Clones" and realize that anything might happen in "Shroud of the Dark Side", then you'll have a lot better time watching the film.
That's why I didn't post any comparison clips of Hayden saying the lines along with my recently posted clips. Are they pretty awful? Yes. But I want SOTDS to stand on it's own as a movie, and I think it has the ability to do that. Because if you think about it, when the whole plot has changed (Obi-Wan is keeping Anakin from seeing his mother), many of the characters have different voices, the soundtrack is mostly replaced, and the personality of the main character has been changed... then you've pretty much got a different movie.