Possessed's edits of the Prequel Trilogy (* unfinished project *)

Yeah yeah, I know… ANOTHER edit of the prequel trilogy. At first glance, it may seem the same as all others when you read this.

These edits have my intent to bring the prequel trilogy closer in feel to the original trilogy. The story will not be altered in any way, just the way it is told.

To do this I am going to edit it with a streamlined approach. No filler, not bulk, lean and fast paced, like ANH and ESB.

Also to get that “Star Wars” feel, I will be adding music from the original trilogy into the films in places. Not completely replacing music, the “Main themes” of the prequel trilogy will still be present. After all, ANH, ESB, and ROTJ all had their own respective themes. Mainly just adding the force them in more, as well as adding in OT music where it fits. (Major thanks to Master Qui-Gon for inspiration on this… will be “borrowing” some of his ideas 😃)

Also I will be doing a SMALL amount of color correction. Nothing major, mainly just desaturating a bit so they aren’t sore on the eyes. I’ll give some scenes more attention than others of course. Don’t worry, I’ve done some experimenting already and there won’t be any “pale faces” or such.

These edits will be for those of you that liked the story of the prequel trilogy, but would like the storytelling to be closer to the original trilogy.

I’ll post some previews soon.

JediMasterFisher said:

sounds neat. looking forward to see what you change. 

 Thanks for the support :)

Some info on release.  There will be made available a torrent of an about 700 MB AVI files at first. If they are well recieved and people are interested I will then release a single layer DVD with about 4 GB devoted to the movie and the rest on any extras and menus and such. (Mainly just recycling extras... I don't know why I just kinda have an OCD where everything I release has to be complete and polished and a dvd without menus and extras just doesn't feel right. Probably just some trailers, maybe a music video, and an edited down making of from the official DVD)

The sound will be a 2.0 Dolby Surround track to save space and to make it easier for me to add in music and edit things. It will be 100% dolby pro logic II compatible, so if you have a decoder you'll still MOST of the surround experience, minus the dialogue being exclusively center-channel.

Also on Phantom Menace most saber blades will be brightened to match the rest of the saga.

(I made "fixed" versions of that for Empire, which also includes changing certain SE changes back to original. Mostly dialogue... Vaders shuttle is once a gain only brought, not prepared. Also Ian Emperor dialogue trimmed to match original emperor and darkened to look more like Jedi Emperor. Not sure if I'll release this, but if anybody's interested I might. Also I'm doing a full Jedi edit as well which will also fix the blades) 

EyeShotFirst said:

sorry to be a little mean but. You say this a week after adywan already said it. He is doing exactly what you are doing.

No he isn't are you kidding me!? Ady is planning to change the story around. He's giving it an overhaul. Not even close to the same thing.

Possessed said:

EyeShotFirst said:

sorry to be a little mean but. You say this a week after adywan already said it. He is doing exactly what you are doing.

 

No he isn't are you kidding me!? Ady is planning to change the story around. He's giving it an overhaul. Not even close to the same thing.

I think there was a misunderstood here.

EyeShotfirst was only talking about what you said about ESB (I THINK? or maybe I misunderstood EyeShotFirst myself!). But as you said, your work here is about the PT, you talked about ESB only as an exemple.

Ady wants to add major changes to the PT story, indeed.

Just an update, even though nobody seems to really care.

I've decided against adding original trilogy music to the prequel trilogy. Maybe in a few spots, but overall no for 2 reasons:

1. The scores of the original trilogy, other than the main theme, didn't really have any relationship with each other so why should the PT?

and

2. There aren't really two many places it would fit. The prequel trilogy has a different story to tell than the OT, and it's a much more tragedic story, and the music should be mostly different. 

JediMasterFisher said:

Possessed said:

Just an update, even though nobody seems to really care.

I've decided against adding original trilogy music to the prequel trilogy. Maybe in a few spots, but overall no for 2 reasons:

1. The scores of the original trilogy, other than the main theme, didn't really have any relationship with each other so why should the PT?

and

2. There aren't really two many places it would fit. The prequel trilogy has a different story to tell than the OT, and it's a much more tragedic story, and the music should be mostly different. 

One thing I'd do with the music in the PT is try to edit it back to the way John Williams wrote and recorded it. Mainly in the end battle.

 

Hmm... I'll look into doing that. I was originally going to do this alot, because musically it sounds better the way Williams wrote it, but as far as it fit into the flow of the movie sometimes it works best the way it is. I might take a look at the end battle.

Also just some info on progress. I didn't actually get around to start editing until yesterday (previously I was just doing music tests and such) and am almost midway through it. I've cut a TON of stuff out, things unnecessary to the story. Captain Obvious's only line I've left in so far is the one about the hyperdrive leaking blah blah because otherwise you don't know why they are going to Tattoine. I'd estimate the final running time to be around an hour and a half to an hour and 45 minutes.

 An update which is in fact not an update at all, but a sad story.

I somehow accidently overwrote my project file and everything I did so far was lost.

So I have to start over. This time I'm going to start with color-adjusting first and possibly release that alone before I do my edit. I'm using a 720P HD broadcast as a source, since the quality of the DVD isn't that great. The broadcast still has Edge Enhancement and grain, but it doesn't have the poor compression artifacts of the DVD and has greater detail. (Talking about Phantom Menace here) 

Ripplin said:

Possessed said:

 An update which is in fact not an update at all, but a sad story.

I somehow accidently overwrote my project file and everything I did so far was lost.

Ouch! Sorry to hear it! Hope you haven't lost any hair, or had too much turn white over that. :p

I must say that when I've had similar setbacks, I always do WAY better the next time. I find I work much faster because I have a better way of doing it and I also remember to add many things I forgot the first time. (I'm thinking specifically of a huge dream journal I wrote, lost, then started again from scratch...) Hopefully your re-do will turn out that way too.

 

 

 Thanks! I'm hoping so too. I do generally have a better idea of what I'm doing now. All the same, I'm still starting with the color adjusting work since I'm not really in the mood to re edit the beginning again. I'll post screenshots sometime.