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Post #558636

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Ronster
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Collaborative Fanediting: An ROTJ Proposition (BACK ON TRACK WITH EMANSWFAN AT THE HELM--SEE POST 1488 OR OP FOR A LINK!)
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12-Jan-2012, 5:55 AM

Angel said:

The space shots in ROTJ i count is 64.

The cockpit shots i count(including the close ups of any bridge but not the far shots) is 58.

This count excludes any hangar shot and any death star interior chase. Also ignores what happens in the throne room. Only when we see ships in space in various backgrounds.

I also noticed that for 85% there is a space shot-cockpit shot-space shot-cockpit shot.

That count only can show us a nice amount of work that the movie already needs before go and add more shots.

have that in mind how many more shots of space should you consider adding?

Any thoughts of braking that bond of cockpit/space shot? Will it look odd?

Its good to start talking measuring and counting shots so we can have a better view of what is going on and what is most or less possible of doing.


-Angel

Well done on this, I noticed it was a differnt formula to directing ROTJ when I was thinking about the Audio and no Comms chatter at all really... I understand it is a difficult one just to incorporate audio to make it feel more Like A New Hope and to break the bond as you say would break the flow the director chose to take... But the Lost Rebels Audio could be incorporated with clever use of Cock-pit view shots or even HUDS which we see none of also... I Just feel it has gone from it's roots and forgotton some of what made it so popular in the first place... A simple Ring-Mod on the Voices of the Lost rebels would probably create the desired effect... you could even take some lines from ANH and re-use wisely with this effect such as "Pull Up" if ships were to crash into the shields on first approach we could also then have a classic cockpit view of what it would look like flying towrds DSII just befor the attack run which we do not get in ROTJ at the momment... It's only Ideas anyway but ROTJ did go off track a bit.

Even Lines like "Fried Calamari Tonight" might work as Comms Chatter with Effects added and you might be surprised that perhaps the key is to break that Bond the director chose as you say, for things to be achieved either through FPS Cockpits and Huds especially with the falcon Gunners also.