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'SW & False Flag Terror' Fan Documentary

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A few years ago, I made a 10-minute documentary called 'Star Wars & False Flag Terrorism'.  It was mostly about the political intrigue dynamics of the PT, but it touched on the OT just in my reference to a '75 draft of SW where Starkiller is describing the history of the Republic.


Anyway, I'm now redoing it almost entirely (though the script is basically the same) in true 1080p HD.  Before, I just used Windows MovieMaker (that's all my computer could handle) but now I use the great, open source program Blender. 

I'm almost all finished in terms of the hours because I created and mostly rendered all the 3D graphics, though I haven't yet touched the editing of the movie footage.

My pain purpose of starting this thread is to (1) just have a place here to share links and get feedback but, more urgently, (2) to request any ideas or input now, before I finalize it and it's too late to do it over.  If you can assist with any data you believe should be added, please do so!  (I'm hoping to find some good EU stories which I could refer fans to on the subject.) 

Here's a still from a 3D animation I have showing George Lucas's (imaginary) desk as he was writing SW in 1975:

 

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As it stands the original version is an interesting deconstruction of the political side of the PT.  The plot actually seems smart and thought-provoking when explained from this angle... hmm, I wonder how the prequels would have gone if it followed Palpatine exclusively?

If you're not entirely sold on keeping it near-identical to the original video I would recommend adding some more comparisons to said kind of terrorism as it has appeared in real life.  A little bit of elaboration on the history of False Flag terrorism a tiny bit here and there would really help; even just little tidbits of real-life examples that directly relate to the element of false flag terrorsim being discussed at the moment scattered throughout might be good.  At certain points, it feels a little like plot summary.

 

Also, if the original video really WAS made in Movie Maker, I'm really impressed.  I know firsthand how limiting it can be.

A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em

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bkev,

Thanks for the suggestion.  What I'll do instead of adding more real world examples is refer people to other documentaries (such as Terrorstorm).  But....I don't think that I want to go in and add all sorts of historical footage, myself (and re-write and re-narrate, on top of it!)

Still, I definitely think it's a good suggestion and I appreciate the thought.


I was pretty proud of getting that much out of MovieMaker.  I think one of the big tricks was using Audacity to take care of the audio so that I didn't have to keep re-rendering it (since MovieMaker only allows for one audio track) and losing image quality with each new render.  But I just worked very hard.  Now it's so great to become more proficient with Blender!

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Sluggo said:

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http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/Sluggomatic2000/Fonts/Trajan2-1.jpg

I used this great helpful graphic as the basis for my new .SVG logo (created in Inkscape, with some preliminary work done in Gimp, specifically the tracing of the 'Star Wars' logo).  This is vector art, so it can be scaled infinitely and, most important for me, imported into Blender and extruded into 3D.

Suggestions and comments more than welcome.  Got the font graphic from the Font Thread here at OT.

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For anyone interested, his 2.0 version was finished and posted here. I ended up getting a PM at, of all places, Demonoid. He doesn't seem to bear any ill will towards OT.com, which is nice.

A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em