So I had an idea last week and I took this morning to put it into practice.

It is a rough edit and an idea that needs a lot more fleshing out visually and so fourth but I thought of way to extend the asteroid chase using dvd menu elements.

See the rough edit to see what I mean

http://vimeo.com/109365671

Password: asteroid

So this idea popped in my head and I did this, this morning quickly for fun. Now I imagine If I had the visual effects skills I would only use the model of the falcon and replace the asteroids and backgrounds in all new shots and Have the tie fighters close on the tail of the falcon obviously not exploding to suggest Han can not get rid of them so easily. The asteroid we see when Han says closer to one of the big ones would be the one that the falcon does the spiral twist to avoid. The Cockpit background would be where we would see a surface of a much larger asteroid that they then fly over in the next shot. Perhaps the tie that flys over and crashes in the cockpit shot should instead be a laser blast. All just ideas but I have to say I quite like the way that it plays. And the music feels like it builds up a bit better too.

Let us know what you think, but bear in mind you will have to use your imagination to see how it can work as a flight to the large asteroid.

This was also brought up and I also believe the "Big Asteroid" might work if it got bigger slower and this sequence or something similar was added but once again let us know what you think about this. That being either dodge that asteroid or make it really try to appear much larger and I am leaning towards trying to make that asteroid feel much larger by slowing it down so it get's larger slower. Then in the second cockpit shot (new from DVD menu) I would use the big matte painting asteroid to show that we have got a lot closer and how big it really is using 2d animation but again getting larger at the same or similar speed. That is my current thoughts please tell me yours.