Originally posted by: DarthBalls1138
I love the seamless branching idea, a lot of your ideas are good, def some color tweaks fo his lips, and since it's open matte and I sure in the hell don't feel like doing a laserdisc transfer I think i'll prolly stick with solely widescreen or crop off more of the image, or start a campaign for a fullscreen dvd lol.
I wasn't sure if there was a full screen dvd available, but even if there was I wouldn't buy it just for this, I will just crop the edges off of the widescreen image up until the time warp.
yeah, even though there's no reason to believe this is how it was 'meant to be' i think it would be quite effective, I'm not sure I'd want to do it for the whole film as it would be a lot of effort and I just don't think I'd ever watch it like that.
Originally posted by: DarthBalls1138
And no the US version doesn't have that song in the film but it's got it in the extras and to be honest there is a reason why they left it out, it doesnt fit the style of the movie at all and it's a horrible song, even worse than superheroes. Not to mention the quality of that scene in the extras is subpar to that of the rest of the movie so it would be even more jarring when added back in even if the whole movie was in black and white!
I love the seamless branching idea, a lot of your ideas are good, def some color tweaks fo his lips, and since it's open matte and I sure in the hell don't feel like doing a laserdisc transfer I think i'll prolly stick with solely widescreen or crop off more of the image, or start a campaign for a fullscreen dvd lol.
I wasn't sure if there was a full screen dvd available, but even if there was I wouldn't buy it just for this, I will just crop the edges off of the widescreen image up until the time warp.
Originally posted by: DarthBalls1138
But I agree with the whole only color being his lips thing untill it gets to a certain point but should that point be when brad and janet walk in the room right after meeting frank or should it be when frank throws off his cape or transition in the middle of him singing sweet transvestite or should it be when the camera flashes back to brad and janet, so many possibilities! I'd also like to see a version where the only color throughout the whole movie is his lips tho!
But I agree with the whole only color being his lips thing untill it gets to a certain point but should that point be when brad and janet walk in the room right after meeting frank or should it be when frank throws off his cape or transition in the middle of him singing sweet transvestite or should it be when the camera flashes back to brad and janet, so many possibilities! I'd also like to see a version where the only color throughout the whole movie is his lips tho!
yeah, even though there's no reason to believe this is how it was 'meant to be' i think it would be quite effective, I'm not sure I'd want to do it for the whole film as it would be a lot of effort and I just don't think I'd ever watch it like that.
Originally posted by: DarthBalls1138
And no the US version doesn't have that song in the film but it's got it in the extras and to be honest there is a reason why they left it out, it doesnt fit the style of the movie at all and it's a horrible song, even worse than superheroes. Not to mention the quality of that scene in the extras is subpar to that of the rest of the movie so it would be even more jarring when added back in even if the whole movie was in black and white!
I thought I'd read that there was once a version released with 'Once in a while' integrated back into the film but I could be wrong, Personally I don't think it's a horrible song (it's been in my head for two days and I still like it) visual style doesn't fit but that's because the footage of brad for the first verse is missing and because of this it isn't as it would have appeared in the film and has been edited together in a music video style (like any song associated with a film that has clips of the movie), I hope that I can edit it closer to as it is in the script and I think it will then work quite well, I believe it was only cut originally to cut the length of the film and because it wouldn't be missed as easily as some other songs.
Superheroes on the other hand is a great song and works wonderfully at the end of the film, it was included in the European theatrical release of the film and was only cut from the American version to make the ending softer, so that it didn't end on such a down beat.
but each to thier own, I started playing around in womble yesterday but I'm only working on the once in a while segment for now, to be honest that is my primary reason for doing anything with this film, the black and white stuff is just for additional options.