I think I'm cutting the Prologue out and just making it a deleted scene of sorts in the bonus features.
The senate scene was completely cut originally. I inserted that scene so we could avoid the whole kamino thing. I guess that's why the tongue thing was weird. I couldn't cut it without ruining the flow of the music.
The imperial march will fit in better once I rework it.
R2 in canyon scene will be replaced. And I think I might just cut the whole stuff inside of the Jawas' place.
By long transition did you mean the long amount of time between the cuts? Originally I was gonna have it be shorter but I had been talking to ID about it and he said that things could get a little confusing and hard to follow if it was too fast. You raise a valuable point with the "Wait what time is it now? What happened last?" Someone had mentioned earlier that they thought a sepia transition would be needed to make things a little more clear. I'm going to go with the Sepia transition so it'll hopefully make things eaiser to follow.
Music in Ben's hut will be turned down.
I thought the cantina scene was a necessary parallel to draw. This whole edit is mostly for the sake of parallels than to just show everything at once.
The alderaan sequence was something I had a lot of trouble wrestling with. The shortened version is kind of too short I find and the fact that the planet is destroyed in a split second makes it harder to grasp in my opinion. The lengthened sequence also makes it easier to tie into the PT and I think this is VERY important due to the fact that the PT is integrated into the OT with this project.
The new music during the remote sequence was meant to show how the Force is a mystical thing and something that isn't fun and games. The dark music as the end was meant to transition into the scene that follows it. Maybe I can rework that part, I'll look into it.
The Droid factory sequence will be removed and replaced with them just being captured.
Dialogue during the fight scene is hard to hear, I'm gonna fix that.
I'll see what I can do with the Falcon's blast off.
A few questions on my part:
What did you think about the flashbacks to ROTS during the scene of Ben in the hut?
What did you think of the Round Table sequence transitioning to the Jedi Council sequence and the new music in both scenes?
I want to have very fast flashes come to Vader's mind once he says "a presence I've not felt since..."
Also, I want to have a sequence of Anakin and Qui-Gon's talks and Qui-Gon addressing the council come in after Obi-Wan and Anakin talk in the hut. I'm gonna use the PM scenes where Anakin has his trials with the council and the whole "Fear leads to anger" thing come in after a degobah scene and then Obi-Wan's scene with Yoda and then his scene during Qui-Gon's funeral with Anakin come in during the earlier scenes of the last film. I also felt something was missing and I thought it was Anakin's initial training to be contrasted with Luke's training in the OT.
What did you think of the music transition from Obi-Wan's duel to the slow-mo sequence? Also, I feel the start of the music from Luke and Leia talking needs to be delayed as their speech comes in first.
Besides that there's only like three technical errors I need to fix. Should be able to get that done before the end of the summer so I can get to work on the DVD.