darth_ender said:

So I was thinking about what you said, Ronster, regarding Madine's death. I had this thought, based on your suggestions: We see Madine in his chair from afar while apparently one of his bridge officers is talking to him (maybe the black guy, but we'd digitally have to move his mouth. "General, the Death Star is preparing to fire again." Close up of Madine. Madine says, "May the Force be with us all." Then the DSII fires and blows up the second Mon Cal cruiser. If done well, minimal mouth movement would need to be added. It would probably be appropriate to somehow insert Lando or Ackbar or someone else's sorrow at the loss of Madine, saying something like, "Liberty!...Madine..." That way there is no doubt about which ship was destroyed and we feel some emotional connectedness and loss at his death. If we carefully trim unnecessary lines (i.e. cutting a portion of Lando's, "That blast came from the Death Star! That thing's operational!" in a careful manner), we can probably produce a few seconds to make that last trick work. Good suggestion, Ron.

With regard to having to make lips move digitally, you could construct a fairly static image of one of the terminals and add some beeping or flashing or whatnot and have his line (or part of it) come from offscreen before cutting to the wider shot including Madine. This way you could have a bit more freedom with his line and maybe show the death star on the display to make it clear he has a reading or something. Just an idea, as the less movement in a shot the easier it would be to create and if its only for quick shots such as this it could be done without appearing too fake. It might even be possible to edit a shot from Star Trek or Stargate or something that has a similar shot of hands on a terminal or monitor but without the face being shown so there would be some movement, but without finding a suitable clip it is hard to know.