So I got board one day and decided to watch a few of the Clone Wars animated series episodes and found myself pleasantly surprised at how good they were. Not every episode is a jem, but there are several that are quite good. Then the idea occurred that you could probably make several feature length episodes from some of the two and three episode arcs which is what I’m going to attempt.
So far I’m working on two edits from the following episodes:
The Clone Wars: Chap 2
MALEVOLENCE
Season 1 Episodes:
“Bombad Jedi”
“Shadows of Malevolence”
“Rising Malevolence”
“Destroy Malevolence”
The Clone Wars: Chap 3
THE SEIGE OF RYLOTH
“Ambush”
“Storm Over Ryloth”
“Innocent of Ryloth”
“Liberty on Ryloth”
I plan on putting together a traditional Star Wars crawl for each episode and I may replace some of the music to give it a more Star Wars film feel.
I have a rough cut of both edits done and I’m hoping to start work this weekend on cover art and DVD menus. Both movies clock in right about 90 minutes. I just completed an intro to Cinema 4D class so I may attempt some animated menus—we’ll see.
I very interested in hearing what other think about this project and of course any suggestions.
UPADATE*********************
Here is a draft of the first five minutes of Chapter 1. The crawl stills needs some work along with some of the sound mix. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGSIXyQXHqA
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."
I like the idea. Adding music from the films would be excellent.
Maybe if you ask him really, really nicely our resident composer - The Cutter - could come up with some new themes for it.
What I'd really like to see, though, is all the clumsy humour removed.
Wow, I didn't even know we had a resident composer! New themes are a great idea. I'd love to have some consistant thems for the Trade Feds, Madaloreans, Techno Union, etc.
As I refine the rough cuts one of my goals will be to remove all the clumsey humor as much as possible. I don't mind comic relief, but it has to be appropriate, well done and not overdone. This will hopfully include most of the battle driod dialogue. Their lines mostly don't work for me. I want to give these edits as serious a tone as possible.
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."
veritas said:
Wow, I didn't even know we had a resident composer! New themes are a great idea. I'd love to have some consistant thems for the Trade Feds, Madaloreans, Techno Union, etc.
As I refine the rough cuts one of my goals will be to remove all the clumsey humor as much as possible. I don't mind comic relief, but it has to be appropriate, well done and not overdone. This will hopfully include most of the battle driod dialogue. Their lines mostly don't work for me. I want to give these edits as serious a tone as possible.
While I agree that new cues, themes, and motif's would be the best route to go, If you feel you just want to use music from the films you should check out my video of "Shadow of the Malevolence" with classic (JW) star wars music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Oul86hRJws (Part 2) and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOUwAXDVda4 (Part 1)
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John Williams score to Return of the Jedi Remastered/Remixed:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/JOHN-WILLIAMS-Star-Wars-Episode-VI-Return-of-the-Jedi-Remastered-Edition/topic/14606/page/1/
Yes, it's really the droid humour I dislike.
I believe it's important that villains be at least competent.
Funnily enough I actually like the droid humour. I find it not as cringeworthy as the films actually.
I guess it wouldn't be a bad idea. For the Opening Crawls however I wonder if taking the narrative lines at the start of every episode word for word might help? Still I do love the quotes though....
“Did you know, the word ‘gullible’ is not in the dictionary?! Look it up.”
FVDnz said:
Funnily enough I actually like the droid humour. I find it not as cringeworthy as the films actually.
I guess it wouldn't be a bad idea. For the Opening Crawls however I wonder if taking the narrative lines at the start of every episode word for word might help? Still I do love the quotes though....
That’s pretty much what I intend to do. The opening narrative are just fine for describing what's going on. I've made some minor tweeks. I’m working on the crawls right now in After Effects. I’ll post them as soon as I get them done—hopefully in a couple days.
BTW, this is completely off topic, but the "reply with quotes" option doesn't seem to work w/ IE 9. Works fine w/ Firefox...
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."
what are you sourcing from? i heard the dvd movie had a just one channel for music, which would be handy if the series was the same.
I was so upset after they aired the malevolence trilogy wondering why they didn't make THAT the Clone Wars movie instead of what we actually got.
ben_danger said:
what are you sourcing from? i heard the dvd movie had a just one channel for music, which would be handy if the series was the same.
I’m using the Blu Rays. So far the primary dialogue and sound effects are on the center channel with the music and secondary sound effect on the right and left channels.
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."
veritas said:
ben_danger said:
what are you sourcing from? i heard the dvd movie had a just one channel for music, which would be handy if the series was the same.
I’m using the Blu Rays. So far the primary dialogue and sound effects are on the center channel with the music and secondary sound effect on the right and left channels.
If only the trilogies boxset could be like this.
veritas said:
ben_danger said:
what are you sourcing from? i heard the dvd movie had a just one channel for music, which would be handy if the series was the same.
I’m using the Blu Rays. So far the primary dialogue and sound effects are on the center channel with the music and secondary sound effect on the right and left channels.
Fwarr. That may just tempt me to buy them!
Check this out, http://boards.theforce.net/live_action_clone_wars_classics/b10467/29754643/p1
They are trying to figure out the chronological order for many of the episodes. Could be good for B-storylines or longer arcs.
Hmm if that be the case then I think I'll give that sequence a shot. Need to pick up the Blurays when I get the chance though.
“Did you know, the word ‘gullible’ is not in the dictionary?! Look it up.”
ben_danger said:
"what are you sourcing from? i heard the dvd movie had a just one channel for music, which would be handy if the series was the same."
Other way around, the series has no music in the center channel, where the DVD movie has music in the center
John Williams score to Return of the Jedi Remastered/Remixed:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/JOHN-WILLIAMS-Star-Wars-Episode-VI-Return-of-the-Jedi-Remastered-Edition/topic/14606/page/1/
Tobar said:
I was so upset after they aired the malevolence trilogy wondering why they didn't make THAT the Clone Wars movie instead of what we actually got.
I totally agree. How Lucas could have picked the one we got over Malevolence is a total mystery.
You know of the rebellion against the Empire?
What? So you would rather see a predatory space behemoth with an ION cannon over a baby hutt nicknamed punkymuffin?
ben_danger said:
veritas said:
ben_danger said:
what are you sourcing from? i heard the dvd movie had a just one channel for music, which would be handy if the series was the same.
I’m using the Blu Rays. So far the primary dialogue and sound effects are on the center channel with the music and secondary sound effect on the right and left channels.
Fwarr. That may just tempt me to buy them!
Check this out, http://boards.theforce.net/live_action_clone_wars_classics/b10467/29754643/p1
They are trying to figure out the chronological order for many of the episodes. Could be good for B-storylines or longer arcs.
That's good info. For some reason I just assumed the order on the Blu Rays/DVDs were correct. You would think they would put the time in to get this right, but apparently not.
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."
WOW the way they have the current sequence on that last page really makes the overall series so far more satisfying to watch. I really hope they release it in that sequence once the last two seasons are released. And I'm curious to see what extra episodes they could fit into the current timeline once Season 4 premieres....
“Did you know, the word ‘gullible’ is not in the dictionary?! Look it up.”
i was always hoping for grevious' backstory, and for them to re-do the old series, so seeing anakin getting knighted etc. ALTHOUGH, the arc with the "planet of the force" sort of redid the old animated series where anakin has his "test of the spirit" (really cool snow planet and native american-esque race), and it was really really stupid.
would love to see a ventress film.
I had this Idea a while back but deserted it cause I thought it was not worth it. Like you said there are a lot of good moments in the series, but so many are ruined by stupid, childish, idiotic (don't get me started), [opposite of] humor.
If you need help with anything you can PM me. I'll be more than willing to help you.
--JustDC
JustDC said:
I had this Idea a while back but deserted it cause I thought it was not worth it. Like you said there are a lot of good moments in the series, but so many are ruined by stupid, childish, idiotic (don't get me started), [opposite of] humor.
If you need help with anything you can PM me. I'll be more than willing to help you.
--JustDC
Thanks JustDC! My biggest problem right now is figuring out the proper order for all the episodes. That's now been complicated by the release of season 3. So far its caused me to scratch what i was working on before (plus I figured out a better was to extract my masters from the blu rays). Currently I'm compiling a list of episodes I want to do and their overall chronological order. Maybe I'll run it by you when I'm done. I think this can be done, its just going to take a lot of careful editing...
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."
Say not bad at all. Just a couple tweaks with the Opening Crawl (spelling errors mainly) and the four full stops at the end then it'll be perfect! :)
“Did you know, the word ‘gullible’ is not in the dictionary?! Look it up.”
veritas said:
ben_danger said:
what are you sourcing from? i heard the dvd movie had a just one channel for music, which would be handy if the series was the same.
I’m using the Blu Rays. So far the primary dialogue and sound effects are on the center channel with the music and secondary sound effect on the right and left channels.
Wait. The Blu-Rays have the music and sound effects separated? As in, one in each channel?
any words on this? I'm interested to see how this turns out.
steelio2006 said:
any words on this? I'm interested to see how this turns out.
This project is temporarily oh hold. I'm too busy with school right now and I ran into several technical hurdles in my earlier edit attempts. I think I've gotten past most of them, but I'm new to fan editing so I'm sure they'll be more. So whenever I reengage I'll be starting from scratch. I'm also working on another edit which is almost complete. It'll be the first edit I officially release and I want to get some feedback on it, before I tackle The Clone Wars. I really want to get these right in full spirit of what Star Wars was originally meant to be.
I also just finished watching season 3, which will have an big impact on the order I originally envisioned for the movies. I still want to tackle this, but it'll be the first of the year before I get the chance. Thanks to everyone who has shown interest so far and for all your suggestions. My goal is to put out at least 3 or 4 feature length films next year. I'll get back to you all at the beginning of the year...
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."