(on page 860) vaderios said:
Not to mention that the pylon behind Vader seems to be an empty box like they forgot to paint/cover it
(on page 861) vaderios said:
(on page 864) Monroville said:
If there is to be any sort of geographical sense of this, the area behind Vader would have to be altered to create an opening to the meditation chamber - the meditation chamber step's wouldn't need to be shown, as the foreground wall beside Vader could conceiveably cover them (though an opening would still have to be created).
It would have to be along these lines:
either the area behind Vader has to be recreated to show the meditation chamber room (being that the pedestal he kneels on is about ONE FOOT away from the bottom circular step to his med chamber), as we should be able to see the edge of the step behind Vader's extended leg, or:
Vader has to be pushed back towards the edge of the wall to account for NOT seeing any part of the med chamber steps, much less the room that surrounds it. You would also have to add some sort of light source (on the airbrushed wall area above and behind Vader) or light "back wash" from the med chamber to help indicate the presence of another room and opening.
That is, if this really needs to be done... personally, I can see it left "as-is", with maybe some lighting backwash from the left area (to account for the med chamber being more brightly lit than the hologram chamber) and the area between the 2 columns behind Vader to indicate something of an opening.
Monroville, although I prefer that adywan kept the original composition by adding the 'chamber' step into the shot...I just wanted to say that I thought your idea to move the Vader/'holopad' element over to the left of the frame was a neat possible solution at the time. :)
Okay, here's something else that I'm really pleased with, that I'd like to go into now -
Because the existing area behind Vader in the 'side onwards' shots of the 'hologram' was misleadingly filmed (due to being a 're-used' set)...I reckon one of adywan's BEST new fixes is the subtle, but brilliant solution that that he came up with for tweaking that small portion of set detail on the left-hand side of the frame...as it plausibly gives the illusion that both 'halves' of the whole '8'-shaped room connect properly now!
So finally, all the various side views of the overall '8'-shaped room will seem to fit together perfectly in future. Here's how the footage now matches up -
Let's start with the shot which shows Vader descending the 'chamber' prop. I'll refer to this as being the 'front' half of the overall '8'-shaped room. The entrance to this section of the room is somewhere offscreen on the right-hand side of the footage at this point...
...and in the scene below where Vader turns around from Veers towards the 'viewscreen' behind him, the entrance remains somewhere offscreen on the right-hand side of the footage at this point...
...and in the shot of Piett below, we can now make out a glimpse of the red light that was seen on the 'pillar' with the single 'slit' in the shots above...which gives us a clearer idea of it's proximity to the entrance that leads to this 'front' half of the '8'-shaped room, which we couldn't see in the previous shots shown...
...and as this shot moves to follow Piett coming around Vader's 'chamber' (and walking onto it's bottom step I believe)...we can now see another 'pillar' with a single 'slit' that is positioned on the other side of the entrance, behind Piett...but can't see beyond this 'side' section of the set into the 'back' half of the '8'-shaped room...
...as the only other view of the 'side' section of the set in this scene is this shot of Piett soon afterwards, shown below...which just shows the same 'pillar' that's situated behind the 'chamber' as we saw in the similar Veers angle shown above...
...however, due to adywan's alteration to the left-hand side of the 'side onwards' view of the 'hologram' (see bottom of comparison shot below)...it now works perfectly as being a short section of 'tubing' that would join just beside the 'pillar' that's seen behind Piett in the shot below...
...and because of the angle that Piett's close-up is filmed at...if you imagine that he had previously been standing on the step that's now been added to the shot below...then that particular 'pillar' seen behind him would indeed just be offscreen when we eventually see the 'side onwards' view of the 'hologram' in the 'back' half of the '8'-shaped room...
A teffific little enhancement!