The most I can do for SOTDS at this point regarding Maul=Grievous is to possibly find Ian McDiarmid saying something like "I have a surprise for you" or "I have something to show you", or anything similar we can find. I can use this as the last line of the Palpatine/Dooku scene. I haven't seen any other Ian McDiarmid movies, though.
I really haven't started thinking about the music yet. I've been thinking that the video editing needs to come first, with the sound next, and the music last. Is that the wrong way to look at this?
Actually, funny enough, my method of editing is music first. Very basic video cutting will come first, but then I'll screen the scene without music and rack my brain for possible cues. I'll try a few out in rough synch with the scene. Then I cut the video to the music. Sound effects come last.
I do this because with a real film, a composer will write cues to the film and hit certain synch points as the shots progress. This is kind of the reverse. The music cues are pre-written, so by cutting the film to the music and reverse-engineering it, you get the illusion that the music is written especially for the film.
Unless you've heard it in another film, which gives it away pretty quickly
