Right it looks like I have started contacting costumers at just the right time because a friend of mine who is studying film making has just asked me for a favour, so i figure if I can get some positive responce from the costumers, I may have myself a cameraman/director for anything new we could shoot (in the UK).
That said I thought it might be worth getting the ball rolling a little with ideas. As Darth Ender said pilots are going to be useful, and I am thinking it would be for cockpit shots? So those could be filmed individually which would be a big benefit. Would there be any need to film shots of pilots together? Maybe a group sitting together could be placed in the briefing room to add to the numbers? But then how well would that be able to be integrated with the existing shots of that room.
Obviously the ground battle on Endor could be added to but as I suggested, someone in California would be more use unless someone can suggest a good wooded area in the UK but I seriously doubt there is anything similar enough. Because of that if there were any extra shots of rebel commandos in the bunker or anything like that it would probably be better to film those in California too so we don't have to worry about finding similar looking extras, so I am (at the moment) putting aside the whole Endor ground battle.
What about a shot of Vader actually opening Luke's lightsaber (as the mockup Angel made a while back), would that be necessary or would we be able to edit the existing shot easily enough without refilming?
Vader walking down a corridor perhaps, in the style of the interactive board game footage Darth Ender found, because we could reshoot in a higher quality?
New shots of dancers, band members, or other scum which could then be mixed in with the Jabba's palace sequence to make it look darker and scummier, or just to replace a few of the shots people don't like so we aren't having to sacrifice runtime?
I have messaged a person who has a screen accurate Yoda puppet, so if that pans out we could potentially get some new shots of Yoda.
I know I am pushing this idea a little but I would rather get way too many ideas and then find out which ones are the most possible, than find I have some people interested in helping, and then have no idea how to use them. So if anyone has any idea at all (RotJ only at the moment) that you might not have voiced in the past because there wasn't suitable footage or whatever, then please just start suggesting anything. If it can't be done it can't be done, but who knows, anything is possible. The people on these sites make just about every costume from the films, the EU, and even made up stuff, there are even people making Gonk droids so no suggestion is too far fetched while we are just brainstorming.