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EDIT: I have included the YouTube Link now.

hey guys, it's been a while since I've posted anything in this thread but I thought I'd bring this up.

I decided that I thought I'd give this a try again. I'm going to take my stuff, however, and put it on youtube as well seeing as I have an account and it'll be worthwhile having up there.

I have broken my editing up into several parts...

Right now I've only finished part 1 and I thought You all might be interested in what I did.

First I recommend downloading it which you can do from here:

Part I

Or watch it here:

Youtube

Things I changed:

1) I moved an establishing shot from Episode II of Padme's Residence to the beginning of this sequence, cutting into the normal film late in, just enough to show the pramanade.

2) Instead of cutting to Mustafar as Obi-Wan enters his ship, it cuts back to a shot of Padme sitting on the couch, her head hanging.

3) This then wipes to Padme at the landing pad for her ship (removing the mustafar sequence).

4) As the ship exits frame, I insert 2 new shots:
- The first from Episode III during the exchange between Padme in her residence and Anakin in the Jedi Temple
- The second from Episode I showing the elapse of time
(The film then cuts back in at the establishing shot of the Senate Building)

5) I replaced one of the background screens on Mustafar as Anakin and Palpatine speak (removing the bit of Padme's ship comming into orbit.

6) I then cut to Palpatine in his office rather than staying on Mustafar. I dunno what Padme was flying in the film, but that thing is FAST and got to Mustafar within minutes! lol (The showing of more time passing and back to palpatines office helps give a sense of more time elapsing as well, giving reality to the length of time it would take to get from the Galactic Core to an outer system world like Mustafar lol)

7) I take one of Yoda's lines "Emperor" and layer it as he walks in, as if he announces his presence, startling the guards that he then knocks down.

8) I remove the line of "I hear a new apprentice you have 'Emperor.'" and just cut to "Or should I call you, Darth Sidious."

9) When Yoda is knocked down, seeing as the fight on Mustafar hasn't begun, I jump to Palpatine getting up from his chair and speaking with Yoda.

10) I cut the line "You cannot stop me. Darth Vader will become more powerful than you or I etc." through to Yoda's line about having too much faith in his apprentice and the dark side.

11) Cut to Palpatine bringing out his lightsaber.

12) Cut to Yoda beginning the fight.

13) I cut from the fight to the establishing shot from earlier in the film of Mustafar and Anakin standing on the promanade.

14) I restructure this by resyncing the video to the music.

15) I slowed down the last few moments so that the final shot of anakin brooding was longer.

16) I layer the SFX of the computer showing Padme's ship arriving.

17) Cut to the shot of the computer showing her ship arriving.

18) I cut a few seconds out of the landing seqeunce from before we see padme in the ship as it is slowly landing, and also from right after that shot, as to speed up the landing of her ship.

Again, this is only part I ... it'll be on youtube in a minute. I'm uploading it now and will post a link.

Let me know what you all think!


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Originally posted by: darkhelmet
Marvolo, can you repost your Dooku duel? I'd love to check it out. MegaUpload says the file's "temporarily unavailable."


Try it again. It is working now.


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Is it just my system or do your clips not have sound Goodmusician?
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it should have sound... I've watched it a few times and checked... I would check your system or the program you're playing it through... or watch it through youtube :-p

Part II is comming


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Excellent clip, Good Musician!
I don't know if you're looking for comments on changes, but I thought I'd throw out a few...

1) I moved an establishing shot from Episode II of Padme's Residence to the beginning of this sequence, cutting into the normal film late in, just enough to show the pramanade.

The AOTC clip worked well, however, the shot of the pramanade went by so quick it was very jarring. I think you could easily leave the shot out all together.

2) Instead of cutting to Mustafar as Obi-Wan enters his ship, it cuts back to a shot of Padme sitting on the couch, her head hanging.

This works extremely well. However, going back to the shot of the pramanade is, again, very jarring. Why is Obi's ship just sitting there? I think it works well to end the scene with the shot of Padme. We see her thinking about all that Obi Wan has told her, and then, in the very next scene, we see what she has decided to do.

4) As the ship exits frame, I insert 2 new shots:
- The first from Episode III during the exchange between Padme in her residence and Anakin in the Jedi Temple
- The second from Episode I showing the elapse of time
(The film then cuts back in at the establishing shot of the Senate Building)

These shots flow into each other well. It feels very natural. Nicely done!

10) I cut the line "You cannot stop me. Darth Vader will become more powerful than you or I etc." through to Yoda's line about having too much faith in his apprentice and the dark side.

Yes yes! Moving straight to the fight actually works better in this case. I wish there was a way to take out Yoda's flip...

I enjoyed everything else you did in the edit...some stuff I didn't even noticed until I came back and read this thread. Again, excellent! Can't wait to see part 2!

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Originally posted by: SomethingStarWarsRelated

The AOTC clip worked well, however, the shot of the pramanade went by so quick it was very jarring. I think you could easily leave the shot out all together.

I was kinda afraid of leaving out the promanade shot because I felt that since its the first time we've seen that space in the day time, people might not know exactly where it is. So I left just a hint of that establishing shot in. I didn't think it was too short but perhaps it is... I was trying to only leave a little, removing most of the camera movement... that's kinda why it's short.

2) Instead of cutting to Mustafar as Obi-Wan enters his ship, it cuts back to a shot of Padme sitting on the couch, her head hanging.

This works extremely well. However, going back to the shot of the pramanade is, again, very jarring. Why is Obi's ship just sitting there? I think it works well to end the scene with the shot of Padme. We see her thinking about all that Obi Wan has told her, and then, in the very next scene, we see what she has decided to do.

My first change to this sequence was always the removing of the cut back to Mustfar, and replacing it with her sitting there thinking. Also, I knew I wanted to move the establishing shot (reverse it) and place it at the end so that it pulled away...sort of showing how alone she is. Obviously, I can't animate OBi-Wan's ship so that's why it sits there... if I could, I would have it fly away lol...

I see what you mean in both cases though...



4) As the ship exits frame, I insert 2 new shots:
- The first from Episode III during the exchange between Padme in her residence and Anakin in the Jedi Temple
- The second from Episode I showing the elapse of time
(The film then cuts back in at the establishing shot of the Senate Building)

These shots flow into each other well. It feels very natural. Nicely done!

Glad you liked it. I went through several versions, pulling out shots from all three films and trying to figure out the best way to do it. Originaly, I had a version where, instead of showing the Jedi Temple from the psychic exchange, it showed Padme's residence... which had a slight zoom in to it, but when I reversed it, it pulled out obviously... but I thought it might be more apropro showing the temple alone in the distance, no longer smoking... reminding us that Padme was going to see Anakin, and what Anakin had done.

10) I cut the line "You cannot stop me. Darth Vader will become more powerful than you or I etc." through to Yoda's line about having too much faith in his apprentice and the dark side.

Yes yes! Moving straight to the fight actually works better in this case. I wish there was a way to take out Yoda's flip...

I always wanted to keep his line "You cannot stop me," just to show his arrogance, but I couldn't cut to anything except yoda jumping at him which by then, it would seem too late for him to pull out his lightsaber and even then, I'd have nothing to cut to so I had to remove the whole speaking section.

Part 2 is being delayed because I did a windows update and now in my editing program, it won't let me see the video aspect of the videos (I can hear the audio) but I can't see the video.. .which, needless to say, makes video editing quite difficult... lol

Even then, I can't export anything except audio.

It's pretty much done and I'd REALLY love to get some input from you guys on how I re-edited the whole battle sequence becuase I completely re-did that and I'm really happy with how it flows.

I'll keep you updated.


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its gonna take a little longer. I contacted the program support people and they said they don't officially support DIVX... so since it no longer works... that just means the program no longer supports it...

So I'm re-ripping the video into another video format and have to re-edit it...which isn't TOO bad because I can do that pretty easily... I have a temp video I'm going to upload to give you all an idea of where I'm going and what I've changed and what I'm going to change further.

You can view it here:

The Fight

Here are a list of the changes I made (I will also note the changes I'm going to make further)

The video picks up right as they begin fighting (this is because I made this simply to see how the flow was...I had no intention on this being what I show you all but it'll have to do until latter.

1) I cut out the last few moments of the beginning the fight, and jump to Yoda and Sidious who are still fighting. I leave this sequence alone until sidious is yelling.

I cut out the last portion just because it slows down the fight and makes it really hard to cut to anything, so instead I cut mid fight to something else mid fight... it helps keep the tension.

2) I cut to Anakin and Obi-Wan fighting through the halls and into the man room.

3) I cut to them fighting in the middle of the room. This goes on until they fling eachother across the room and Anakin jumps at Obi-Wan.

You'll notice that I removed a few segments such as them on the table. I couldn't understand how they got into that room and how they'd get out lol... just doesn't make sense to me... hence why I simply combine the part from before the room scene to the fight of them in the middle of the main hall just to move things along faster.

4) I replace the shot of them destroying the console with a duplicate (alternate angle) shot of them destroying the console from the sequence of when they first enter the main hall. The next few shots are the same as the original sequence would have them.

5) I cut early from Anakin and Obi-Wan to Yoda and Sidious... instead of leaving some open time as in the original, I cut from right after Anakin hits obi-wan in the face to the yoda fight. This removes Obi-Wan walking around in pain and Anakin walking up to him and moves the music along perfectly as well. When I did the complete score for episode III,this is one of the segments that was extended past what it normally is and I think it's because the original edit may have been this way too.

6) The Yoda-Sidious sequence is the same up until Sidious throws one of the pods straight at yoda. I cut out sidious laughing, and layer this with my music from my score edit rip, re-syncing it to fit slightly better. It fades back to how it is in the film when Sidious sees the pod coming at him.

7) I cut early from Sidious looking around for Yoda to Anakin and Obi-Wan fighting/balancing on one of the pylons. I use a rip of the clean audio from the mashups on Starwars.com and replace the music with more music from the Episode III version of DOTF. I stay with this until Obi-Wan jumps down.

8) Cut back to Yoda jumping up at Sidious. The two fight and are blown from each-other by the shock wave

---Here I am thinking about reinserting Yoda slipping. As you watch, look for where I put it... The problem becomes there are only a few moments where you can cut to yoda and sidious and the problem is that where I have Yoda calling for Organa edited here, which was just a test to see if it would work, doesn't work... it breaks the emotion. I'll explain where I think it should go. I think I should show Yoda fall here seeing the coat come down.

9) Cut back to Obi-Wan and Anakin Fighting. The opening of this is from when they are walking down one of the pylons that would then break off from a magma explosion. Instead, I cut to them as they fight and "Heroes Collide."

Again I use the clean audio from the mashps and replace the music here with "Heroes Collide."

10) I then cut here to Yoda falling. I cut most of this to shorten it. The coat falls, Yoda looks up. (In this version, I'd moved the video of Yoda looking up too soon. It was meant to be, yoda falls, the coat drops, then Yoda Looks up.

---- This I'm thinking of moving back to #8 and instead, cutting to Palpatine in his pod with the troopers announcing Yoda is missing. Then it would cut to yoda in the shaft saying "Hurry! Careful Timing we will need!" then to Organa saying "Activate blah blah" I would then cut to Yoda climbing into the area where he opens the hatch, activates the beacon, and then jumps into Organa's ship... as they sail away it would then cut to --

11) We cut back to the part of them fighting on the pylon, but both lightsabers are down on the ground. They turn to see the lava explode and then run for cover.

12) This cuts directly to the final fighting segment, as they float along the river of Lava.

-- I'd like to cut the shot of Obi-Wan watching the thing go over the cliff and just instead cut to Anakin running down the shaft and then jumping onto the droid.

--I'd also cut out half, if not the entire shot of the droid looking around confused.

13) I cut a portion of them standing around looking at each-other and cut almost directly to Obi-Wan's dialogue "I have failed you."

14) I cut part of Anakins line "In my point of view The Jedi are Evil" because it's like DUR...of course it's your point of view...and Lucas was really beating that idea home too much. So instead the conversation is "I should have known the Jedi were plotting to take over." "Anakin, the Chancelor is Evil!" "The Jedi are Evil!"

15) This then has a minor mess up but should cut almost directly to Anakin's line "This is the end for you my Master."

--I might tighten some of the edits of Anakin jumping and Obi-Wan cutting him and the slide so it moves a bit faster.

16) After Obi-Wan picks up the lightsaber, I remove Anakin saying "I hate you" and instead I cut to him looking at Anakin and saying "You were my brother Anakin. I loved you."

17) This cuts to Anakin saying 'I hate you"

18) This cuts back to Obi-Wan looking on sadly as the rest of this sequence plays out.

19) In this edit, I attempted to move the Yoda portions to after the battle as not to slow it down but it breaks the emotional flow of the film, and if it were after they leave mustafar then I couldn't cut to Yoda at Polis Mossa so I couldn't place it there, so I'm moving it back earlier in the edit.

Here I cut most of Yoda in the tube to simply him saying "Hurry!" Which then cuts to Senator Organa saying his lines. Then to Palpatine in his pod. I'm going to switch Palpatine to be first in this though, I also have removed his line about Vader, but still have a slight glance over his shoulder at the end.

20) This then cuts back to Mustafar as Obi-Wan gets on board. I cut Padme's lines. He touches her on the shoulder, she moans, he moves his hand to her face, then she passes out again and he leaves to the cockpit.

This ends my edit. Part 3 would be after this... For those of you familiar with how I edited it before, it cuts from this to the establishing shot of Polis Mossa, then shows Yoda meditating. I use that as a vehicle for showing Padme's demise, Qui-Gon's message to Yoda, and then also show a brief shot of Anakin crawling only to be interrupted by Senator Organa. It's a cool sequence.


Let me know what you all think of the changes I made and have mentioned I will make.


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I know this is the third post in a row, but I've managed to remake the edit faster than I thought It would take me...

Here's what I have so far (I cut off the beginning again because it's not important. The video is so long as it is.) There are 2-3 little errors wher eyou can see for a frame or so another shot that's not suppose to be there... but let me know what you think

Part II


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Watching your clip GoodMusician (great work by the way) has inspired me with the following idea:

What if during the duel, towards the end when Anakin and Obi-Wan are fighting vertically on that giant arm/bridge, Anakin's "death/demise" actually occurs by him falling over the lava waterfall while still clinging to the bridge?

What annoys me most about the choreography towards the end of the duel is mainly around this part as Obi-Wan leaps from the cable to that tiny floating repuslor sled only to be followed by an equally ridiculous jump from Anakin onto an even SMALLER repuslor sled (done fairly badly I think by way of the special effects).

What if instead following Obi off the bridge, Anakin doesn't make it in time and is taken over the edge of the lava waterfall along with the bridge as it plummets into the lava below?

What this means then, is that the duel ends right here, instead of progressing further to the banks of the lava river.

Using the audio from the river bank scene where Anakin is screaming in pain, layer this as the bridge goes over and I think it will be quite convincing. There's enough footage of Obi-Wan standing looking at the bridge as it goes over, cut to a few of his close up reaction shots from later in the film (ie the river bank scene) and with Anakin's screaming, I think audiences will get the idea.

It means we lose the whole Anakin lying on the river bank scene which has some great dialogue between him and Obi, but this could be used elsewhere in the duel.

After Obi gets back on board his ship and Palpatine comes to Mustafar, we then see Anakin lying by the lava river burned to a crisp and missing his arms and legs but the audience just assumes he's managed to crawl out of the lava and collapse on the slope.

And voila, we have the charred remains of former Jedi minus some awkward and poorly executed fight choreography.

What does everyone think?

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^All good except for one thing.

Lava + flesh = no more Anakin. You can't have him actually plummet into lava and survive.
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with the part 2 clip I get more of a sense that the fighting continues while we're not looking. Over all it seems a bit tighter. there are a few areas that could be tweaked further, A few shots that dont seem quite right or cut away that little bit too quickly.

And considering DFs suggestion, while landing in the lava would surely = no more Anakin, I'd be very happy to see an alternative to him losing THREE limbs at the same time. That moment in ROTS just doesn't sit right with me. And of course Obi Wan watching him burn which seems completely out of character.

I've got a bit of catching up to do now with all these clips

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I like where you're going with the idea of Anakin going over the waterfall... but I think that it presents a few more problems than the edit is worth.

For one, musically it would be kinda strange... going from BOTH to the middle of the Immolation cue lol...

Johnny Ringo, what parts in the edit did you think could be tighter?


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Let me watch the clips again and I'll give you some more feedback.
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To all the people saying that Lava+Flesh=No more Anikan, let me just say that to explain why Anikan and Obi-wan could be so close to the lava without getting fried and why Anikan latter burns when he is just as close to the lava as he was earlier, George said that Jedi have the ability to use the force that allows them to shield themselves from the heat of the lava, but when Anikan gets his arm and legs cut off he loses control of that power because of his rage, and this causes him to burn because he can't block the lava's heat with force. So if you go by this same logic then when Anikan goes over the water fall he uses this force to shield himself from the lava's heat, but he isn't strong enough to block all the heat so he gets burnt.


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My only comment on that must use the immortal words of Jar Jar...

"Oooo... Maxi Big Da Force!"


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Originally posted by: Johnny Ringo
I'd be very happy to see an alternative to him losing THREE limbs at the same time. That moment in ROTS just doesn't sit right with me.


Me too.

And yeah to follow on with what Marvolo is saying, who's to say Anakin's entire body falls into the lava? I guess a little imagination is required from the audience in that we see him go over the edge, we hear him screaming in pain and the next time we see him he's a burnt crisp on the river bank missing some limbs.

Maybe he uses the dark side to protect himself, maybe he just gets lava on him rather than taking a full bath. Either way, I think it could look better than the one swash from Obi's saber and voila, he's 3 limbs down!

We get the added bonus too of Obi-Wan not coming off like so much of an @rsehole, leaving his former friend to smoulder and die.

And GoodMusician, I'm sure with you're editing proweress you could seemlessly move between the 2 different pieces of audio. From one musician to another, nothing is impossible.
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I have to say I like this idea. Definitely something to play with. As for the music, thats an easy fix, especially for you GoodMusician. I've got your complete score to Episode III on my computer, and if you can create that, you can play with a musical jump like the one your talking about. Just be creative on where the musical transition takes place, or even change which music is used. You have the power (of Greyscull...)
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When I first saw the film in theatres I remember watching the big arm structure they were on plummeting to the bottom of the lava fall and thinking "why didn't George have Anikan go over the lava fall with the structure?" They even linger on the shot of the arm structure plummeting to the bottom of the lava fall so that gives you the required screen time for the audience to hear Anikan's screams as he plummets to the bottom with the structure. I also like the idea of Anikan going over the lava fall, because it is more in line with how I imagined Anikan getting injured, and how George originally described it. In the early rough story boards in The Making Of ROTS book it shows Anikan losing his balance and falling into the lava. Obi-wan originally didn't cut his legs or his arms off, they were burnt off by the lava. This would also make the way Anikan ends up in the suit even more graphic, because we don't really get to see what he went through trying to get out of the lava, and what what kind of agony he was in while attempting to do so. When we see how bad he is injured when he is found by the Emperor on the bank it is left up to the audience to imagine what bad things happened to make him look like that. I like this idea and will attempt to do a quick edit of this so everyone can get a general idea of how it would look completed.

Also, about how to fix the jump that will occur in the music if you make the duel end by Anikan going over the lava fall, have everything go silent as the arm structure tips over the edge of the lava fall, and all you hear is Anikan's screams as the arm structure falls down the lava fall and when the arm structure hits the bottom of the lava fall just have the screams fade also. Then you could cut to something else. I will try to do a rough edit of this.


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Well, I will certainly give it an attempt.

First, I've been toying with some ways to pull out of the fight and back to Coruscant.

The first was by adding a shot of the Senate building, but I felt it was too abrupt so I decided to add a shot of a volcano erupting from latter. I then take the two parts from around the volcano erupting latter and push them together

I made two short clips to show these ides. I'm curious what you all think:

Senate shot

EDIT:

Ignore the Volcano eruption, I Found that in the first trailer there is an alternate angle shot of them struggling I think I'll just add that instead, THEN cut to the senate shot.

What do you all think of the Senate shot and the order from there?

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Because I had used the volcano shot from latter in the sequence for earlier, I removed it from latter so as not to have it repeat. Here, in this video, I have the shot removed, and the shot before and after pushed together. I think I may leave it this way.

Also after the arm drops, in the film it cuts back to curuscant, but since I took care of that, I simply pushed the shot before and the shot of the arm floating from after Yoda together. What do you all think of that?

Lava float

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The question about him going over the cliff and all is nice... but I'm curious because why would we want to show that he survived it at all... wouldn't it be better to simply say he didn't... it would be more correct continuity wise with the original trilogy... saying Anakin died.

I also made an attempt at doing an edit of what you asked. I'm still working on it. Let me know what you think:

Anakin Goes Over Lava-fall


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GoodMusician, great job with the edit of Anikan going over the Lava Fall.

Some nitpicks:

1.Cut the part where Anikan ignites his saber and attempts to run and jump from the structure. Make it so that he swings back on to the structure and before he can even attempt to run and jump off it he plummets down the lava fall.

2. Not really a nit pick but when you pull away from the falls after Anikan has fallen down the falls you can see the structure still floating down the lava river in the background. This can be removed with Adobe After Effects.

3. After you have the shot that pulls away from the lava fall I would cut Obi-Wan's reaction shots and go straight to volcanoe erupting shot and then to Obi-Wan approaching the ship. The reason for this is because you already have two reaction shots from Obi-Wan before you have the pull out shot and don't really need two more. If you don't want to remove these shots at least get rid of or replace the last shot of Obi-Wan where he is holding his ignited lightsaber right before the volcanoe shot. It just doesn't flow naturally with the other reaction shots, because they are close up facial shots and that is a full body shot. I understand the emotion that is supposed to be portrayed by Obi-Wan's body stance, but it feels awkward among the other reaction shots.

And about not showing Anikan surviving his fall over the lava fall, I like this and it would keep Anikan's fate unkown.



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Wow,story wise I much prefer anakin going over the 'waterfall'. Now there's the sense that Obi Wan assumes he's died but without any certainty. I say that if you can polish this up then it's a great way to go. I could happily do without the whole fight along the lava river and on the bank.

I'm assuming you'd wanna cut the giant floating arm from the 2nd instance the camera moves down the 'waterfall'. there's probably enough footage there to simply start later in the shot.

I always liked the start of the duel and various parts of it, but ultimately it went a bit over the top and the end was a bit of a mess, It felt like they painted themselves into a corner. after going to great lengths to show us just how evenly matched they are, to suddenly have take him out in a single strike. plus I didn't really like that obi would do something like that.

I'll go re watch the rest of the clips now.
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Originally posted by: Marvolo
1.Cut the part where Anikan ignites his saber and attempts to run and jump from the structure. Make it so that he swings back on to the structure and before he can even attempt to run and jump off it he plummets down the lava fall.

I only left it because I liked what it showed of the arm and the arms position on the lava-fall. You get a real sense that it's gone over the cliff.

2. Not really a nit pick but when you pull away from the falls after Anikan has fallen down the falls you can see the structure still floating down the lava river in the background. This can be removed with Adobe After Effects.


I was just throwing it together to see what it would look like. I don't have Adobe After Effects (wish very greatly that I did lol)... so that would be the job of... someone else lol

3. After you have the shot that pulls away from the lava fall I would cut Obi-Wan's reaction shots and go straight to volcanoe erupting shot and then to Obi-Wan approaching the ship. The reason for this is because you already have two reaction shots from Obi-Wan before you have the pull out shot and don't really need two more. If you don't want to remove these shots at least get rid of or replace the last shot of Obi-Wan where he is holding his ignited lightsaber right before the volcanoe shot. It just doesn't flow naturally with the other reaction shots, because they are close up facial shots and that is a full body shot. I understand the emotion that is supposed to be portrayed by Obi-Wan's body stance, but it feels awkward among the other reaction shots.


As you said, there are several good reaction shots... I included all of them to test them all... have them all IN the video and then narrow it down to the ones likes, or the ones preferred.

Again, just tossing it together.

Personally, after watching it again, I'm really not that big of a fan of the music track I chose. I WAS trying to find something of Battle of the Heroes, but there isn't much that conveys the emotion I was going for. Leaving the music intact for the most part would work, but it would have to end abruptly... and then somehow transition to the second half of "The Immolation Scene" without being too awkward.

And no one commented on the edits I did in the end of this sequence lol



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