adywan said:
Monroville said:
dbuck said:
When Cloud City is revealed, there is a pod car flying away from it towards us. We then cut to the SE shot following a pod car flying through the city, almost giving a continuity problem as it feels as if they should be the same vehicle. Fortunately the shot is a temp, and the city looks very good in the shot.

Keep going Ady. Awesome work.

I suggested earlier to just reverse the course of the cloud car so its heading away from us and towards the city, so that the next shot of the fly through is a sort of continuation of the previous shot. Even if it isn't the same cloud car, visually it would flow better.

the main problem with having the cloud car flying towards the city is the we have 3 consecutive shots of a ship flying away from the camera. First Luke's X-wing which wipes to the shot of cloud city then straight into the fly-though scene with the cloud car. the middle shot really needs to be different or the repetitiveness is glaring. In the clip i did put that it was a temp shot and i always miss the original wipe shot with the cloud car (don't get me started on that refinery again. ;) lol). i have a few ideas about what to do with the shot but just need to do a few tests first.

I can understand; at the same time, the ship movement is directing us TO Cloud City, so the movement still serves a purpose. In all the times watching EMPIRE, I never really noticed any repetition of ship movement to the point of it sticking out in a bad way. Regardless, as long as the shot works with the flow of the film, that's all that really matters.