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Star Wars: A New Threat (TFA EDIT) (Released) — Page 10

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Just bought a 1TB external drive so now my final edit can be full size! (Almost 20 gigs)

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I will also have smaller versions for those who want it

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darthrush said:

TK251 said:

darthrush said:

I would also maybe try to do the following in line with your plot restructuring:

-Cut together a star being sucked up with Hux’s speech. I overlayed it with the last section of “Anakins Dark Deeds”. If you want a preview clip, I can upload that. Basically Hux now prepares a speech for the star being sucked up. This is cut together pretty well.
-Then all references to Starkiller aiming at the resistance or the Hosnian destruction are removed. Believe me, the cuts are seamless.
-But yet I’m puzzled on how to implement the Hosnian destruction later on. I was thinking putting it right after the shot of Rey and Finn desperately shooting at troopers (before Chewie blows exposlives). Then we cut back to Chewie blowing them, then we cut to Poe breaking through the opening and hopelessly destroying the base. We intercut this with Rey and Finn escaping. This entire sequence would be rescored for improved emotional impact. Then you let movie play out as normal except we cut to people evacuating during the lightsaber fight instead of cutting to Poes trench run which would be shifted right before Hans death.

I have done the work for the Hux speech and most of the cuts leading up to Hans death but I am still thinking of how to handle the third act. This could be possibly implemented in V2 of your edit and would really redefine the experience of the movie as a whole.

I would like to see how you handled Hux’s speech it is similar to what I am doing.

Yah I’ll try to get a preview up later tonight once I get home

Sorry to bug you. Have you gotten around to uploading that preview

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Sorry have been having some internet issues. Will be getting on that. I may throw up previews for scenes that are cut so that any dialogue contradicting the plot change is removed. When Kylo/Hux talk to Snoke a second time, I had to cut Snoke talking about crushing the resistance. The rebel briefing is trimmed up too so yah once internet gets working, I’ll have em up.

Hux’s speech and everything up until Hans death would be easy to master for the plot change. But I think some more serious restructuring and rescoring in the third act could be effective.

But getting Hux’s speech right and cutting contradictory references being removed is the first step.

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K here’s a couple previews. It’s Hux’s speech, altered meeting with Snoke and altered rebel briefing. I cut Snoke talking about crushing the resistance, and during the briefing cut Leia saying there the next target. Feedback on the ideas is welcome. None of the cuts would be ready to go into an edit fresh but I think the editing in the previews is pretty seamless despite maybe some transitions.

Rebel briefing: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6oj5qynL5zQejRIMFR2X1lKYXc

Meeting with Snoke:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6oj5qynL5zQWU5ycVhmWkpmLUE

Hux’s speech:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6oj5qynL5zQektjZWExdExONzg

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Those look good. Snoke scene is just like how I am doing it. the hux scene is very well done. The rebel briefing is nice to

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Sweet. It’s the third act to figure out now haha. I may throw up a clip tonight of playing around with it. The final project would need to have rescoring done most likely. R u skilled at either removing music or creating sfx? The rescored scenes would only need sfx so I guess I could use “Star Wars Sounds” (Myspleen) and recreate the sfx. In That_OT_Rulers edit he is removing the music so we could maybe get help from him. I’m thinking of using Order 66 music once it cuts to Leia grieving. Then right before Chewie blows explosives, we cut to Starkiller firing, then back to Chewie blowing explosives, then to Poe coming through the opening. This string of events with order 66 music would be pretty emotional I would guess.

We can then shift the rest of the trench run earlier and intercut it with the bombs being set. Then during lightsaber fight it would cut to people evacuating rather than the trench run.

So yah, when I get home I’ll show you my basic idea with previews.

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Sounds like a good idea. I am not skilled at removing audio tracks or sfxs. I’m new to the edit scene

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Maybe it would be tacky but for the whole “make Starkiller charge during Hux’s speech” thing, you might be able to do something like this in order to keep these shots. Just a low quality test.

https://vimeo.com/164647186

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I definitely would too if I were you since it works out so perfectly! That’s what impressed me the most about it.

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Yah. I just thought about the pieces in Star Wars that would best improve the brevity of the scene. Also “Anakins Dark Deeds” signified a massive shift in the galaxy when originally used. So it is recycled here because it not only sounds awesome but the tide has turned in the galaxy. It marks the tragic start of the First Orders Rise. Cause in TK’s edit they ultimately succeed at the end despite the weapon being destroyed, they accomplished the goal of destroying the ignorant republic. This plot change definetly improves the film a lot as a whole.

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I am going to work with the briefing scene a little and then I will let you guys see

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BAD NEWS: Hard drive crashed and the project file was lost. Have to start from scratch. Good news is I have all week to edit so I should be able to get it quickly

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More good news if there is anything I should add/cut to the edit let me know. Also, Kylo searches the falcon will be in my cut. Thanks to xxtelecine 7xx