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Post #326864

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InfoDroid
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Star Wars: REBORN - The Complete Saga (* unfinished project *)
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Date created
14-Aug-2008, 2:43 PM

Asteroid-Man,

It would probably be prudent for you at this point to open up a new thread for this, since this represents your vision of the project.  There are other faneditors working on their own versions of the concept as well, including Corgicar, JasoN, and KillBillMe (on other forums).  So, you'll want to distinguish yours from the rest.

A word on your outline, just my first reaction of course:  There is a lot of cutting back and forth, which is what we tried initially, but we quickly found that both of these stories have such a massive scope that they need a little breathing room.  That's why we went back to the structure of our original inspiration for the idea, The Godfather Part II.  Looking at that, we noticed there would be about 20 minutes from Michael's story, and then it would transition to Vito's story, which would run for another 20 minutes and so on.  So, we tried to mirror that. 

We always tried to approach the material from the viewpoint of a person who had never seen or heard anything about Star Wars before.  They need time to absorb the information that's being thrown at them at lightspeed pace.  I think if you structured it the way you're suggesting, the viewer would be so exhausted after the first half, they'd never make it to the second half.  Now, granted, by today's standards, The Godfather can seem a little slow at times...That's why we came up with the concept of "pillar" scenes, which I'm sure you've read about in my previous posts. 

The pillar scenes allow you to make those on-the-nose visual and emotional connections you really want to make, and leave the rest of it for the viewer to mentally connect on their own.  Most people like to participate in a story when they're watching it.  It's all about presenting questions to the audience.  And the pacing reflects the rate at which you reveal the answers to those questions.

I think your structure would be a challenge to absorb, even for the ADD/MTV generation.  I don't mean this as criticism, it's just my humble opinion, and a word of advice coming from a person who has tried it.

--InfoDroid