Star Wars: REBORN - The Complete Saga (* unfinished project *) — Page 17

There were certainly somethings going right with this project.

I liked most of the mixing of Luke and Anakin's mutual family traumas. Though I would have kept with Anakin all the way from his finding the Tusken camp and that evil look after his mother's death. I would have then gone to the funeral scene at the farm with Beru and Owen young and alive which ends with a pan up at the sky. Then reversed the pan up at the end of Luke's scene to a pan down (not as easy as it sounds without the smoke going backwards) and then had his reaction to seeing their charred remains. And then on to Ben comforting him and Luke decaring his intent to follow in his father's bootsteps.

I would have kept the actual Tusken laser sword massacre scenes until his confession to Padme which would have followed next (as much as I love the mixing of Padme waiting to meet her deadly husband with the confession it is rather long...perhaps keeping the wanting to stop people from dying bit would be enough as it shows Padme falsly blaiming herself for Anakin's final fall.

The love scene montage is great but the clip of little Annie takes you out of the moment.

Though it's a mountain of hard work it might be worth making it so Boba Fett is the same guy in the mask in all the films (basically erasing Jengo from the timeline and really fleshing Boba's role out). If Jengo's armour could be recoloured to match the original films and we never saw him die in AOTC that would give us more Boba for our buck. It's a shame that we have so many clone faces on display because I would prefer to never find out what under that helmet.

tjdavis1138 said:

Well Bingowings you sound like the perfect person to take over this project!

It's tempting, I don't have access to DVD ripping and advanced editing software but if I could get good versions of the source material I might be able to do rough and ready versions which might inspire more tooled up and talented types out there to perfect the idea.

I'm a real fan of Godfather II and Infodroid's original notion is genius.

It will be done by someone eventually but I don't think I'm the guy to give the universe the polished gem this deserves to be (but I might be able give the final artist some interesting pointers).

I might start by editing the scripts.

The key to good stories is in the writing and I can edit that on a simple word processor.

Bingowings:

I think you ought to take a crack at it.  I (and I am sure others here as well) can assist with some freeware to get you started.  Put together a few smaller projects (like trailers) for fun and to hone some skills.  I've been teaching myself some tricks here and there in preperation for some projects of my own. 

Seriously, if you want a project done right, don't farm it out to someone else unless you downright can't do it.

Just my 2 cents.

id be really interested in seeing a rough cut.

i really enjoyed the clips you posted, and would happily see a "work in progress" version, just for the ideas and composition.

maybe after a rough cut, you could subdivide the film into small sections, ie, bar scene, speeder chase, dialogue scene, and maybe people could have a crack at taking one a nd implementing the ideas after spending more time on it, like some collaborative film.

have you ever considered making this in the format of a tv series? with a "previously on star wars" opening perhaps? the parallel storylines could create sufficient tense ending points.

well i guess im just enthusiastic. kinda hoping after other ID edits that you may...one day...return.

i really like the use of boba fett in the cantina, it makes it alot more mysterious. i am hoping the eventual AOTC:R by adywan incorperated some of these ideas.

does anyone know how to convert mkv format to avi? i tried a few free trial programs and they suck.:(

ben_danger said:

does anyone know how to convert mkv format to avi? i tried a few free trial programs and they suck.:(

The only program I've been getting decent results with atm is called super, by erightsoft. It's free and fully functional, however i remember having to search around the site for a download link...

If anyone else has suggestions, I'm all ears too.

Sluggo said:

Bingowings:

I think you ought to take a crack at it. I (and I am sure others here as well) can assist with some freeware to get you started. Put together a few smaller projects (like trailers) for fun and to hone some skills. I've been teaching myself some tricks here and there in preperation for some projects of my own.

Seriously, if you want a project done right, don't farm it out to someone else unless you downright can't do it.

Just my 2 cents.

That's a very kind offer and as I said I am tempted.

I'm a mac user and the only editing software I've used are iMovie and HyperEngine (so you can see I'm very green).

But any help you can give in getting started would be greatly appreciated.

That was sooo good, so beautiful... I'm lost for words.

Your edited version of Anakin's spacebattle is the best I've ever seen. I really liked it.

I hope Asteroid-Man and/or Bingowings can finish this!

where is that footage from with the desert and two suns, but when travelling across the desert? i thought it was ROTJ but i dont think it is?

Yes, I was surprised the whole "there is no father" aspect was still in there as well. I'm also not sure if showing the final part of the "construction of vader" was a good idea, if you haven't seen the film yet that'd just be confusing. I think ;-)

Loved the narration.

Did you make those dubs for the neimoidians from scratch or are they from a different language version? Were they going to be subbed or not?