corellian77 said:
My 2¢: I like the idea of either an antechamber or elongated hallway. Either serves to make Vader's meditation room seem more isolated and imposing, and therefore threatening.
I wish I could remember what Ady said on the subject, alas 865 pages worth of information is a lot to keep track of.
corellian77, turns out that recent link to Bingowing's own thoughts on the issue ended up pinpointing the pages showing everything that was said at the time on the subject.
Seems it was first brought up by vaderios way back on page 267...and the various viewpoints for-and-against the 'meditation chamber's entrance' shot being made to look more 'isolated' from the 'bridge' went back-and-forth over the course of 10 pages until page 276!
Here are adywan's 3 responses on the issue at the time, from pages 267, 268, and 273 respectively, which I couldn't recall properly either, but may clarify things a little for everyone -
adywan said:
i don't think this needs changing, wouldn't it make better sense if this chamber was close to the bridge instead of being deep within the bowels of the ship? I can't help thinking of the scene in spaceballs if Vader needed to get to the bridge in a hurry if he was so far away from it in his chamber. lol
adywan said:
i,m actually in two minds about this now. i'm starting to like the idea of having it a bit more isolated. hmmm, what to do. lol
adywan said:
as for vaders chamber, i do like the corridor idea abut not an airlock or lift. He wouldn't need a sterile environment so his wounds wouldn't get infected because they would have healed after all this time. i've always thought that the actual meditation unit had some sort of inbuilt force field protecting Vader when he has his mask off and that his breathing apparatus was linked into it's systems which would allow him to have his mask off for short periods of time. i won't be doing any changes to that apart from the entrance.
However, just *how much* things will change in the shot remains to be seen, but for anyone wishing to see what was discussed at the time, here's where it started on page 267 - http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/STAR-WARS-EP-V-REVISITED-EDITION-ADYWAN-CHRISTMAS-CLIP-NOW-AVAILABLE/post/348536/#TopicPost348536 , before it ended up being resumed on page 863 a couple of pages back.
sluggo and doubleofive - thanks for re-posting that behind-the-scenes exterior shot of the guarded 'chamber' entrance recently, by the way...as that helped me at the time (along with certain comments) to work out the new way I am now going to look on this whole scene in future...so that things can make total sense 'time-wise' to me by the time we cut to the full shot of Vader later descending from the direction of the 'chamber', without it seeming jarring. And the lucky thing for me is, it can still work whether adywan changes the background of the existing shot of Piett's entrance, or not... :)
I'll go into that properly, to see what others think, when I have enough time soon. In the meantime, I thought I'd post these for anyone here that hasn't seen them yet, as I love the camera-angles and details shown in them -
