I just ordered a dual 2.5 Ghz powermac G5, but apple is having problems shipping them or something, so I'm not sure when it's getting here. I got it to do video editing and 3d animation on. I'm not sure about other video editing apps, but I know Avid takes advantage of dual processors. It's extremely helpful when you're rendering, but to be honest, if you aren't getting paid for doing this sort of thing, a single processor with lots of ram will work fine.

As for the film itself...

plan, plan, plan, plan. Who's our target audience? What are we trying to tell them? Why do they need to know? How can we tell them?

ricarleite, you have the right idea going...but you're limiting the audience to star wars fans. I think our audience should be wider than that. I think (as silly as this sounds) we need to assume that the people watching this have never seen star wars, or if they have, they don't know anything about original vs. special editions. Watch a couple of news magazines like Dateline, 48 Hours, 60 Minutes, etc. I know you've all probably watched the before, but this time watch them and think about their approach. They always pull you in, and they keep pulling until the payoff at the end. A good news story or documentary will make you sit there glued to it until it's over even though you don't really care about it. Granted, most people that watch this *will* care about it, but there's also a big chunk of the audience that will either be watching just because they're curious, or just because their friend sent it to them, or just because they want to see what the fuss is about, etc. Our goal shouldn't be to tell the original trilogy fans what they already know. Our goal should be to persuade the other star wars fans who don't mind the new versions to want the originals; as well as to at least get the attention of people who don't really care one way or the other. That last one is the toughest one...and if we aim for that goal, the other goals will easily be accomplished.

So, to get started with planning, let's tackle the most obvious and seemingly simple question first:

What do we need to say?

I was thinking of focussing it on George Lucas taking full credit for the Star Wars movies when he doesn't really deserve it. That would be the cause, and the affect would be that he's ruined those movies by abusing his power.

That's just what I think it should be though...I'm sure everyone has an idea of what they want it to be. So share your ideas, but try to keep focused on that question, we'll worry about the other aspects as we come to them. Step by step.

I hope I'm not coming across as a know-it-all...I'm trying not to. But I do this stuff for a living.