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Post #355456

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HeKS
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Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Edit Suggestions
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Date created
17-Apr-2009, 11:36 PM
InfoDroid said:

My color palette:

 

Slightly desaturated.  A little darker.  A little more contrast.

 

Hey Infodroid,

From what I can tell the color looks good. As for the arrangement ... just a thought ... I think the B&W Raiders bit is an interesting idea because of the warehouse tie in, but I wonder if putting the Orellana's Cradle scene next might disconnect the Raiders bit from the warehouse scene a little too much.

And if I'm being honest, I'm not sure I'm crazy about starting with that later scene and then saying "a few days earlier". What I do agree with is the need to jump right into an adventure like the other movies, which makes me wonder how it would work if you faded out from the B&W Raiders scene to black for like 5 seconds and then jump directly to the warehouse doors opening and Indy walking in with Spalko and company. If this scene is edited to run a bit tighter then after the rocket sled, when Indy is running off, it could then cut to the FBI interrogation scene. Then the interrogation could be intercut with the scene leading up to them walking into the warehouse, using a few voiceovers and only what little is needed of the original opening scene of the movie before entering the warehouse to give some context to the scene. In fact you might just be able to use snippets of the opening scene as responses to FBI questions. FBI suggests he was working with Russians, you very briefly intercut him being pulled out of the trunk and thrown to the ground and all the guns being pointed at him. All in all we/you try to make it seem like he was acting more against his will then the movie currently makes it seem ... since in the actual movie he goes along fairly easily.

At the end of the interrogation you go directly into the school scene, as the movie currently does. We thus avoid any MAJOR jumps in time, don't need any subtitles saying "so many days earlier or later", still start the movie with the adventure right off the bat, and don't lose any necessary information from the mostly unnecessary intro.

What do you think?

Ryan