adywan said:

Monroville said:

Even so, it would make more sense (to me) to show the Falcon moving away from us, since that is what it was doing in the previous shot as it was leaving the underbelly of the frigate, as opposed to just veering off to the left. That's all I'm sayin'.

I tried it with the falcon just flying straight towards it, but in the final shot there was nothing to see. The falcon works best if it veers off to the left and in the final shot we can see it in the distance flying off screen

Understandable; I never thought that the Falcon would already be pretty small in the picture and having it fly directly away from us could get it lost in the galaxy image.

I guess maybe actually show the Falcon heading directly away and veer to the left/lower left (or even more to the center left of the screen)? That way you still have a good profile of the Falcon, and altering the left turn towards the lower end of the screen as opposed to the higher end would keep it in the same general plane of space it was when it left from underneath the frigate.

Overall, I'm just a composition guy. It's not a big deal, but the Falcon always looked weird just flying off to the upper left corner the way it does.