darth_ender said:
Happy New Year! It's still half an hour away for me, but I'm here at home while my wife has all the fun chaperoning a church youth dance. Just FYI, I'm virtually done with another Battle of Endor rough edit. Nearly all the surface battle has remained the same, and my focus has been on mostly the space battle and Jerjerrod. I should have it uploaded some time tomorrow.
Another thought about the final battle: we never really see the Rebels losing that badly except when the DSII fires upon them. It'd be good to see the capital ships taking more of a beating and getting destroyed as well; all we see once fleets are mixing it up is the loss of star destroyers.
Happy New year All,
Darth_Ender I had an Idea as I was looking at some of the deleted footage, and specifically referencing General Madine. My idea was this Just before the deathstar fires for the first time use the shot of Madine swinging round on his chair and then cut to DSII Dish goes green then the close up of Madine but only include the line "The Force be with us" and have the DSII then destroy the Mon Calamari ship. It would basically imply that he's on the ship that gets destroyed.
Well It might not work like that but fiddle about with it.
So Far as Vader choking Jerjerrod I think put it before when Vader goes back in to see the Emporer the second time but only use the line from Jerrjerod "It is The Emorers Orders" or whatever it is then cut to Vader Arriving in the throne room, to discuss lukes presence.
Anyway thats how I would incorporate those 2 deleted scenes.
Alot of the Lost rebels footage is in Black and white, not sure how you are planning to use that footage as I doubt it is any good. But Gunners on the Falcon might be nice. Re-using ANH Port window Footage for destroying Ties.
The Sandstorm is a complete write off IMO also you cannot do anything with still images, it's basically a reconstruction But the Matte might work well at the begining before we see C3PO and R2 head towards Jabbas Palace or afterwards and just show the Falcon Taking off with the X-wing. Keep the Dialogue from before they part ways.
Not too bothered about showing the phantom Ties but if we see one or 2 ok but like you said no special attributes..
Good Luck, with the rough cut, I look forwrd to seeing what you come up with. I will Re-cut mine again when I've seen yours.
Bit of a development I just got a new Laptop and I may have enough power to do a dvd quality edit of ROTJ, So I may go ahead with doing a cut as I have spent so long pulling this film apart now.... Would this be Helpfull? I would like to cut my own personal version... But would be happy to perhaps cut the collaborative effort script also when all has been finalised. Although I am not sure how this would all come into place with a collaboration.
For Luke Getting to Tattooine just seen this footage from Flight of the Phoenix and could perhaps draw some inspiration from this aswell as using some footage and for Background Mattes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6c7PMfwW98&feature=related
from 05.30 in ref vid Could use Footage Speeding along the ground and the drop into the Canyon After seeing this I would really like to see Luke fly out beggars canyon against 2 suns rather than just 1 here. There is also some sky shots looking down at the desert which could be incorporated coming in from the atmosphere of Tattooine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9DA8yYzop4&feature=related
Theres also some good shots here especially at the end of canyon fly throughs which could incorporate the back view of the x-wing with R-2 from ANH (DS Trench) 04.22 / 09.55 /25.16 /27.03 / 28.51/30.18 Ref Vid
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This is the sort of thing I had in mind anyway with the x-wing composited onto this type of matte