geMTHaslett said:
Possessed said:
Well it's either that or switch it back, because it won't make sense any other way. I mean even if I switched the scene with chewie around how is that scene supposed to work without threepio?
This might be a problem. Sure it works fine as far as flow and feel, but moving the yoda scene ahead causes problems I can't think of solutions to. I mean I'm sure it's possible to edit 3p0 out of the scene with chewie but the results would be so choppy it would ruin it. I think it might have to stay as it is.
Well, you have to follow your instincts. There are options. I think the way that seems closest to what you want would be: Vader on DS2/Luke Yoda; Luke Ben/Droids on Tatooine etc. There's no real need to separate the Yoda scene and the Ben scene.
I've gone over the cuts for editing 3P0 out of the Chewie scene and can suggest how to do it. It is not such a big deal. Most of what he does is repeat Jabba's lines. There are other shots of Jabba and his room from other scenes that can be used as extra coverage. But the scene would basically be two characters talking through subtitles and plays fine to me. That would allow the scene order where the capture of Chewie comes between teh Yoda scene and the Ben scene.
But a third option I think you should just test before rejecting is having the Emperor arrive after the consecutive Luke/Yoda/Ben scenes. To me this has potential that is only clear when you see it. This would allow the Droids (and Luke) to arrive before the Chewie gets captured.
What's left to solve?
I'm definitely not going to try and edit out 3p0 from that scene. I mean sure it could be done, but the results couldn't ever be as professional looking as the way it is now and that's the main thing.
The first option is interesting, but do you think wiping directly from luke and ben to the droids on tattoine wwould be too fast? I mean unless anybody knows of a way to show luke actually leaving degobah to show that he did indeed travel across the galaxy. I mean I guess I could use the shots of the x-wing leaving degobah in ESB and like flip them and change their speed to seem different but that would be pretty cheap. I don't think that would work. Maybe if I changed the coloring of the shots where he's actually leaving degobah in esb in the x-wing, flipped the image and slowed the frame rate down, and then spliced in a different shot of an x-wing flying off into space? I'm not sure how this would work. I'll work on a test.
The third option seems interesting, but I'm not sure if I like the idea of having two DS scenes so close together. It might work, I'll have to see.