Ideas and Suggestions for :Star Trek The Motion Picture (True Fan Edit) — Page 7

How about simply 'To Boldly Go'?

I consider this to be a front-runner for the title of the twelfth Star Trek movie but I honestly believes it fits the ethos and ambition of this fan edit of TMP. After all, the new, refitted Enterprise challenges a machine that has literally sampled and recorded the Universe around it, akin to meeting a silent but polarising God-like figure.

Many, many people who aren't even fans of the show could easily give a quick snippet of the opening monologue and 'To Boldly Go' seems to be the defining moment.

hmm, they kind of already did that for Star Trek 5 - "...The Final Frontier"

FF, I sent you a PM

There's a Star Trek 5?

Polarity said:

There's a Star Trek 5?

cute.

Just a WIP image for a WIP concept...

The last version looks great. The "pinkie" version almost like the Nexus from Generations

The last is excellent, though frame sampling, slowing down the footage slightly and tweaking the upper grilles to make them smaller is needed.

How much raw footage is there from that episode?

I've ripped scenes from a handful of episodes. There are quite a few shots but many aren't really of use without a fair bit of compositing, if you look closely I've painted out the enterprise in the shot above.

If FanFiltration is satisfied with the direction of things I will look at building any specific shots from various elements.

The major issue is that a lot of shots don't run for very long, but there are one or two sweeping shots.

The last version looks great. The "pinkie" version almost like the Nexus from Generations

The "pinkie" shot is directly from Enterprise. It's not a creative choice, just a source we are considering using.

tweaking the upper grilles to make them smaller is needed.

I wouldn't be too concerned about that, by the era of the motion picture this ship is a relic. Any inaccuracies could easily be explained away - I'm not trying to pass of a 22nd century BOP as a 23rd century BOP. not ATM anyway.

I do appreciate the feedback though. And if you guys have other ideas, let's hear them...

Sounds great FF, I'll try to finish up the other bits and pieces i'm playing with. Then at least we have a good starting point...

If anyone else wants to take a look at my intro proof of concept, I'll throw it onto youtube for now.  - Just bear in mind this is extremely rough!

video link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWw8JiYBsaY

EDIT -

Here's a quick and dirty mockup to apply more 'cinematic' colouring to the rather 'television' look of the source footage...

maybe, I was hoping to just use the film dialogue but i don't know.

Given that the spoken Klingon in TPM was gibberish anyway, maybe we could simply lift dialogue from elsewhere regardless of context?

Can anyone remember if there were spoken klingon lines in any of the games? specifically something like the Elite force series..

Obviously you wouldn't want to use a very  recogniseable voice like that of Christopher Lloyd.

A thought occurs - they may be some spoken klingon that we can lift from star trek 11 deleted scenes.

There is a lso a loop of bridge sound effects on the BD [and i assume DVD] menus that might be useful, FanFiltration.

I wouldn't mind taking part in the audio edit, I'm pretty nifty with editing, dubbing and sound reproduction.

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/orbital-office.htm - They really did get some use out of this thing!

Gibberish?  Lifting dialog?  My vote is to put another call out and re-record dialog in Klingon!  Certainly we can find someone on BBS or somewhere who knows enough to give us dialog to fit whatever we want.

When I say that I refer only to TMP - where they made up a few bits and pieces. It wasn't until Star Trek 3 that a language was properly developed.

I'm sure you're right though, there are probably much more people out there speaking Klingon than Esperanto.

Really all we need is some stuff that sounds gruff and guttural - they aren't reciting shakespeare here after all ;)

I like the proof of concept, maybe a little less "inside the ship". It'd be awesome to have just a ship entering the cloud and getting blasted, but that would be hard to do with with visuals we have.

Well, it would be impossible, otherwise I'd be all for it...

Here is an audio sample of the Klingon language from the previously linked video of the Klingon computer game.

It is a very quick first draft. I've managed to remove a fair amount of the background engine noise without affecting the speech. The air between phrases can be muted and the use of equiliser and reverb to give the speech more of a rumble can be tweaked to perfection.

It shows that within this sample, there is plenty of material to construct viable, crisp and distinct dialogue. Considering the gutteral, confident tones, this could very well be the commanding officer's voice.

I never really liked that effect but I guess it's worth seeing if it can be done well...

I was thinking about maybe trying to show the crew getting 'digitized' and the ship getting destroyed. There is footage of a BOP breaking apart, although it would need to be composited into the cloud.

Maybe we could take the original idea and add some enhancements, as well as enhancing the d7 cruisers? 

Give it a try I guess...

EDIT: That reminds me, If we do indeed show the klingon BOP at warp then the visuals should be comparable to warp effects elsewhere in the film - whether original or enhanced.

Thanks for the PM Polarity - sent you a reply.

It has a limit of ten downloads, I'll message you a new link.

Hey guys...I made a matte.

I couldn't find an appropriate shot to mirror this token Star Trek visual...

but then noticed an almost identical bridge shot in a different Klingon themed episode. Long story short, that episode had what i need to I roughed together a quick matte mockup which should allow us to put ANYTHING into the view area easily...

There are at least 2 shots i can think of offhand where this could be useful.

FF, Your frind may find this useful...

http://drexfiles.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/ent-klingon-bird-of-prey/#more-12684

one more concept, just for fun...