Not to beat a dead horse (as this was brought up some time ago), but after watching this clip again , would it be more compositionally better if instead of the rear end of the AT-AT on the left (from 0:08) there was an AT-AT in the foreground in the right side of the screen (say we can see the feet, legs, and a part of the underbelly and the bottom of the head, but enough to the right so Luke is still clearly seen - say the head would be in the sky and part of the rear panel on the midground AT-AT's body)?
That way instead of all the AT-ATs populating the midground of the shot, you would have something in the foreground, midground and background to establish some depth. Also, Veer's AT-AT doesn't necessarily have to be the one in the center (I know the argument will be that Veer's AT-AT is the one leaving the frame; my point is primarily a visual one).
Another question: has anyone rewatched the AT-AT attack scene (from the binoc spotter to the shield generator being destroyed) to keep an eye not just on lightsource/shadow direction (from the sun) but clouds or lack of them? If there is a higher percentage of cloudless sky shots, would it be conceivable to delete the clouds from the rest of the AT-AT attack scenes to develop consistency (ie. give the scene in the clip above a clear blue sky, among other scenes)?
I'm currently working on a mock-up of the above idea...
EDIT:
this way Luke is still the center of the subject image, but you have a progression of depth with the AT-ATs, with maybe snowspeeders flying inbetween them.
Being that when the AT-ATs are shooting at the rebels fleeing, the rebels are pretty spread out. Thus when we see out of Veer's (or one of the other AT-AT) bridge window, it does not have to be in the center. Thus the AT-AT in the foreground could be Veers (with the shot of the lone AT-AT shooting at the last fleeing rebel troop, the other 2 downed AT-ATs could be shown behind and to the left of it, since it is already on the right side of the screen):
Triangles are rough areas where destroyed AT-ATs could be... as the one is being tripped (in the background) as Luke goes up the midground AT-AT, both of their wreckage should be roughly beside each other.
I guess further back, the other 2 AT-AT bodies should be present too (probably far behind the AT-AT and slightly to the right), with smoke trails similar to what is coming from the destroyed rebel gun turrets.