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Kill Bill (* unfinished project *)

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It’s taken me a while to sign up to this forum. I mostly hang out on Faneditforum and haven’t really thought about this forum much, but now I’ve remembered here I am! I have already completed and released two fan edits - first of Hot Fuzz and second of three South Park episodes, which can both be found on Fanedit.org.

My next edit project is a fan edit of Kill Bill. This will be released in volumes like the original was, but only in AVI format, the full DVD having both volumes joined together.

So far I’m finishing up Volume 1. It runs at 1 hour and 38 minutes (98 minutes). What my edit does is rejig the first half of the film (from the shooting to the hospital) and display it in a different way to the original. So this version starts with the Sheriff scene, cuts to the shooting in B&W which is used as a bridge to the hospital. The Bride gets to the car and then it jumps forward to the death of Vernita Green. The narration “When God smiles on something… etc.” is used as a bridge to the Origin of O-Ren chapter, and it remains somewhat unedited until the end.

To be honest I’m not entirely sure why I’m doing this. I really like Volume 1 in its current state. This is something I did totally on a whim.

For Volume 1, the source was the uncut Japanese DVD, so the Crazy 88 showdown is in full colour and extended. However I did prefer the original’s black and white, and I want to bring it across in this cut without “censoring” the blood. So what I wish to do is have the entire scene in black and white except for the blood, which stays red. However I have no idea how to do this.

Volume 2 I have tentative plans at this time to speed up the pacing with the removal of lots of lengthy and unnecessary dialogue.

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Ghostcut said:

For Volume 1, the source was the uncut Japanese DVD, so the Crazy 88 showdown is in full colour and extended. However I did prefer the original's black and white, and I want to bring it across in this cut without "censoring" the blood. So what I wish to do is have the entire scene in black and white except for the blood, which stays red. However I have no idea how to do this.


welcome to OT Ghostcut ;) I had the same idea about the blood. I hope you can pull that off.

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You could possibly do this using AviSynth's Tweak() function - fairly easy to do, although it may be difficult if there are any other red objects in the scene.

If you start a thread in the technical help forum, explain what you want to do (maybe post a short sample of the scene in colour), hopefully you should get some useful responses.

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Thanks for that, Moth3r, I'll experiment a bit first with the method you posted. The filters in Sony Vegas just aren't very effective.
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Ghostcut - Nice to see you here, and this sounds like a great project, and I like the idea of the 'Sin City'-style black and white uncut sequences with flashes of red blood. But I also like the colour pallete of that sequence too, so maybe you'd consider SOME of it to be in full-colour also? Either decision will look great though. Good luck with your efforts on this one.