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STAR WARS: EP V "REVISITED EDITION"ADYWAN - 12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW
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27-Feb-2009, 12:48 PM
vaderios said:

Hmm Oups?

-Angel

 

vaderios, I've been meaning to mention a couple of things about this sequence, and will use the 2 recent shot examples you've shown here as an opportunity to do so.

First though, I believe you were just referring to the surrounding 'wraparound' backdrop as being different, because apart from the different colouring between the shots, the actual 'gantry' set looks the same by the time we see the shot on the right shown above, although it's filmed from far less of a 'birds-eye' view, and much more to the right of it, compared to the shot on the left, causing a shortening of the shadows cast.  As you later said, we do revert once again to the shot on the left (when Luke let's go and starts to fall)

However, apart from the duller flashing yellow 'ganty' lights in some shots which Adywan has confirmed he will try to brighten-up (it's not clear from these screenshots shown, but the 'dulled' ones in the left shot flash a 'pinkish' colour, compared to the vibrant yellow shown during the right shot), here are some other things to do with the 'gantry'/ and it's 'surrounding backdrop' that have always caught my eye -

1.  Some shots (usually the 'dulled' ones) seem to have all the smaller random backdrop lights in a LIGHT ORANGE colour, whereas other shots have a (far better-looking in my opinion) mixture of both WHITE and LIGHT ORANGE coloured lights, as seen in the right shot above.

2.  Some shots (usually the 'dulled' ones) have lines of RED horizontal backdrop lights amongst the smaller random lights, whereas others have these horizontal lights in ORANGE.  And in a couple of others, these lights are just a 'washed-out' WHITE (when Luke walks alongside the 'Vane' to re-enter through the doorway opening, and when Vader and Luke emerge out of this opening just after, as they duel again)  It would be good to have some consistency using either RED or ORANGE for all these shots, depending on Adywan's preference.  (although judging by all the shots, I'd guess it's easier to alter the orange and white ones to RED)

3.  The large (non-flashing) 'yellowish' light that is shown on the right-hand side of the left shot above, is similar to the vertical ones seen during these shots -   when Luke hangs off the 'walkway' / when Luke looks down during Vader talking to him / and during Luke's actual descent downwards.  Although the ones where Luke hangs off the 'walkway' are also 'yellowish', the other shots show them in WHITE....  Again, consistency between all these shots would be good.  (although I prefer the WHITE look myself)

4.  When we first see the 'whole' of the 'Vane' (immediately after the Falcon blasts off from the Bespin platform), it has 2 pairs of double red lights at it's base.  However, during Luke's fall, there are 3 pairs of red lights underneath the 'Vane' now....  I'd like to see the extra middle set removed from this shot to tie-in better with the previous shot.

5.  Immediately before the right shot shown above, there is a 'close-up' where Luke grabs a part of the 'gantry' prop with his remaining LEFT hand, as we hear Vader say "Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father".  There is a short 'adjoining spar' underneath his hand that is missing in this prop shot, but which is evident in the next 'close-up' that comes immediately after the right shot above, where he has turned around while still hanging onto the same section....  It would be neat if this short 'adjoining spar' could either be added (preferably) or removed to tie these shots together.