ImperialFighter said:
Good call on the Falcon being the wrong distance from Luke though, which you just beat me to last night. Glad to see that adywan is already going to fix that too. :)
Anytime ;) hope you did not go into much work…
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got to get my pride back after my recent humiliation :p
If you leave aside Mark Hamill and his prop antenna you'll see that the backgrounds in all these shots are not different mattes but a model, the same in each shot, filmed differently, you can see it especially in these shots where the perspective is actually changing within the shot, as the camera is panning (note that Luke here is a stop motion animated miniature included in the model):
and this shot also shows it is a model:
Unfortunately there are a few shots that were similar so they did not re-shoot the model as often as they should. That's why you noticed some discrepancies.
For the sake of clarity I'll be naming this view with Luke on the left near the left Light "the reference shot":
....this differently angled matte that comes shortly afterwards....
In fact it is the same view of the model used in the reference shot, with a little more of the top. It's Luke who's misplaced here (if we take the reference shot as the good one).
(@Sluggo: this is also true in all the versions you just showed)
This can be improved by changing the background to have the left light near Luke. I could make a mockup if needed.
....it seems like these 2 lights are missing from the shot where the Falcon 'hovers' underneath Luke....or so I thought....
As for the missing lights, it's just that they go of frame it that shot because the camera needed to be lower to take the Falcon, and so (this time anyway) they lowered the filming of the model to have the correct perspective.
There are initially a few static matte shots identical to this one below (all shown in my page 664 post), where Luke is on the left of the frame, and the angle of the underside and the positions of the 'vanes' are exactly the same....
....until we eventually come to this one below, where there is now a differently angled matte of the underside, and Luke is more to the right of the frame.
Yes Luke is changing position in this shot too, while the background is still the same reference shot.
Obviously the goal here was to make room for the arrival of the Falcon, it makes sense from a filmaker's pov. So, let's get nit picky and change the undercity perspective for continuity sake. Here's a little mockup:
