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STAR WARS: EPISODE VII: The Shadow Revealed (FAN EDIT BY THAT_OT_RULER) NEW PREVIEW CLIPS — Page 4

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Honestly, voice separation for ROTS is at the top of my wishlist as I’m almost done with my ROTR workprint, and going back to fix some of the biggest vocal flaws would be a huge benefit to the project.

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That_OT_Ruler said:

I posted my thoughts for a fan edit months ago, but with the Blu-ray just coming out, I’d like to share my ideas and what I will definitely be doing in the fan edit.

Working title: The Shadow Revealed
Fan Edit by That_OT_Ruler

*MAJOR CHANGES
-Color correction (Yellow-ish color tint, examples below)
—Soundtrack is completely removed and replaced with music from the previous films (Hopefully)
-Some scenes will have a complete sound overhaul (New sound mix with TIE fighters effects, etc.)
-Removal of the Rathtar squid sequence (The whole thing is gone)
-Removal of almost all fanservice and callback moments, except for shit like Rey’s helmet and the AT-AT
-Finn is not nearly as cringeworthy around Rey (Removal of stupid lines like, “Well this is what we look like.”) He’s more serious, but he has heart.
-Put back in shots that were cut from the trailers
-Finn sucks even more with using a lightsaber

*MINOR CHANGES
-20th Century Fox logo and theme is implemented
-Custom title crawl
-Removal of Poe’s line, “You talk first, I talk first?”
-Removal of Poe’s line, “You need a pilot?”
-Removal of Finn’s yelling, “DID YOU SEE THAT?!”
-Removal of extra explosion after TIE fighter sinks into sand
-Cut down Rey’s fight in marketplace (This ties into the next edit)
-No gag of Finn drinking water next to giant beast
-Other miscellaneous dialogue removal
-Remove entire pointless sequence of Finn talking to BB-8 and asking him to tell Rey the location of the Resistance base
-Remove line, “You got a boyfriend? Cute boyfriend?”
-Remove Rey telling Han that he did the kessel run in 14 parsecs
-Removal of entire Rathtar squid scene. It just cuts from Han talking to Lord Snoke
-Cut out Chewie being injured to keep continuity with previous cut
-Other miscellaneous dialogue cuts during scene with examining map
-Remove the reactions of the people watching the planets getting blown up
-Remove Maz’s line, “A good question, for another time.”
-Trim down and cut out shots and parts of the raid on Maz’s castle
-Re-insert X-Wings hovering over water shot from the trailer
-Cut down Kylo chasing Rey in the forest
-Cut out scene of Kylo thrashing around saber in rage
-Cut out more jokes with Finn
-Reinsert Kylo walking in forest shot from Teaser 1
-Finn’s fight with Kylo is much shorter, and downright pathetic. Finn lasts less than 40 seconds.
-Rey and Kylo’s fight sequence is put together (It doesn’t cut away to X-wings)
-Movie fades out on Luke’s face, not the helicopter shot

POSSIBLE MAJOR EDIT: The Republic planets are destroyed at the end of the movie, not the middle. This would removed Hux’s speech, but make the finale much more emotional.

Those are basically all the edits I plan to fully implement. No deleted scenes will be put into the edit, as the Timecode problem makes it impossible.

Now, this is where I NEED YOUR HELP. I may need need someone to help me remove the music from the 7.1 DTS audio mix, leaving only the vocals and sound effects. It doesn’t have to be perfect, but I REALLY NEED HELP WITH THIS to make this edit work.

I also need help with creating a new title crawl, something similar to what HAL9000 did for his prequel edits.

YOU WILL BE CREDITED IN THE FILM FOR HELPING OUT.

I would like to thank you for reading, and now, here are some test clips of what I’m putting together.

THESE ARE VERY VERY VERY EARLY TEST CLIPS. THE AUDIO IS NOWHERE NEAR FINISHED.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x42wipg
X-Wing Assault on Starkiller Base - The Phantom Menace Music

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x42x58s
Battle at Maz’s Castle - The Empire Strikes Back Music

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4349qm
Attacking the Oscillator - Return of the Jedi Music

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4349w2
Han and Kylo’s confrontation - Revenge of the Sith and Return of the Jedi Music

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x48pbmm_final-assault-on-starkiller-music-only_fun
Final Assault on Starkiller Base - The Phanton Menace Music (MUSIC ONLY)

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x48pjme_first-5-minutes-of-tfa-edit_fun
First 5 Minutes of the edit - Mixed Music (See if you can spot which tracks I used)

Here is a taste of my color correction. NOT FINISHED.

All suggestions and comments are appreciated. Thank you, and enjoy!

I personally liked the line, “Well, this is what we look like.” It was the only time I laughed during the entire movie. I think removing Hux’s speech would be a mistake. The sequence when talks to BB-8 and asks him to tell Rey the location of the Resistance base is necessary for the plot. And I think that you should keep at least some of the new music since it will probably appear in the sequels as well. Likewise, I think you should keep the closing helicopter shot since Episode VIII may open with the same shot, beginning where Episode VII left off.

Other than that, I agree with all of your proposed changes. I may purchase a DVD copy of The Force Awakens solely to make it legal for me to download your fan edit.

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Here are some more clips! This is probably all I’m going to post for awhile, until I get much further in the project. Thanks for all your suggestions!

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x48s3qb_the-map-to-luke-skywalker-preview-clip-early-audio_fun
Looking at the map - Cut out Chewbacca being injured - No sound effects or music

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x48s5xb
Rey leaves to find Luke Skywalker - Music from The Phantom Menace - Early audio mixing - No effects at the end

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x48s7gc
Final scene - Rey hands Luke the lightsaber - Revenge of the Sith Music - Preview Clip

Again, some are not even polished at all, but hope you get a kick out of it anyways.

~The original trilogy is my life… kind of~

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Holy shit, the audio got really screwed up in the second clip with Rey leaving. Damn, I should reupload that one.

~The original trilogy is my life… kind of~

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That_OT_Ruler said:

Here are some more clips! This is probably all I’m going to post for awhile, until I get much further in the project. Thanks for all your suggestions!

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x48s3qb_the-map-to-luke-skywalker-preview-clip-early-audio_fun
Looking at the map - Cut out Chewbacca being injured - No sound effects or music

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x48s5xb
Rey leaves to find Luke Skywalker - Music from The Phantom Menace - Early audio mixing - No effects at the end

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x48s7gc
Final scene - Rey hands Luke the lightsaber - Revenge of the Sith Music - Preview Clip

Again, some are not even polished at all, but hope you get a kick out of it anyways.

I like the finale but the colors seem a little too brown. The scene where Han Gives exposition won’t have any music at all? That makee it way less interesting IMO, even the OT had subtle music during exposition.

Prequel Fan-Edit thread: http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Yet-another-series-of-prequel-edits/id/17329

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I should’ve mentioned I didn’t put the music in yet for the Han exposition scene. That clip was to show off I removed the “bypassing the compressor” part and Chewie being injured. As for the colors in the finale, I may tone them down a bit, as I was messing around with it, and liked the stylized colors I got.

~The original trilogy is my life… kind of~

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That_OT_Ruler said:

I should’ve mentioned I didn’t put the music in yet for the Han exposition scene. That clip was to show off I removed the “bypassing the compressor” part and Chewie being injured. As for the colors in the finale, I may tone them down a bit, as I was messing around with it, and liked the stylized colors I got.

Your removal of the music is pretty good. Once you rescore the scenes It’ll be unnoticeable. Great Work!

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Smithers said:

TV’s Frink said:

Smithers said:

You really have musical timing down! Stay tuned, my music free tracks are coming along, you’ll be able to synchronize it to the original movie so you should be able to just drop it into your edit.

You magnificent bastard.

😃

I may do this for the PT as well if anyone wants me to

Yes. Yes. Yes. Please. I would kiss you if this wasn’t the Internet. You are the answer to an editors prayers.

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Smithers said:

TV’s Frink said:

Smithers said:

You really have musical timing down! Stay tuned, my music free tracks are coming along, you’ll be able to synchronize it to the original movie so you should be able to just drop it into your edit.

You magnificent bastard.

😃

I may do this for the PT as well if anyone wants me to

Actually I would love to see ANH done. One of my favorite edits is Ryan McAvoy’s B&W workprint recreation. He was passionate about it but then lost his drive due to the desire to rescore parts and splice parts, but the audio was too difficult. If you could fix that one issue, maybe he’d return to the edit.

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Darth Lucas said:

Smithers said:

TV’s Frink said:

Smithers said:

You really have musical timing down! Stay tuned, my music free tracks are coming along, you’ll be able to synchronize it to the original movie so you should be able to just drop it into your edit.

You magnificent bastard.

😃

I may do this for the PT as well if anyone wants me to

Yes. Yes. Yes. Please. I would kiss you if this wasn’t the Internet. You are the answer to an editors prayers.

Forgot to add that this would be a blessing to all Faneditors. I wouldn’t desire OT as much as PT and TFA though. The two films I feel could use a better soundtrack is TFA and AoTC. Thanks again for attempting this!!! As DL said, you would be the answer to every Faneditors prayers 😃

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Smithers said:

TV’s Frink said:

Smithers said:

You really have musical timing down! Stay tuned, my music free tracks are coming along, you’ll be able to synchronize it to the original movie so you should be able to just drop it into your edit.

You magnificent bastard.

😃

I may do this for the PT as well if anyone wants me to

You’ve got my vote for the PT. As an editor who has done this for a few segments of Episode I, I know how much work it would be. You’d be a godsend.

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darthrush said:

Darth Lucas said:

Smithers said:

TV’s Frink said:

Smithers said:

You really have musical timing down! Stay tuned, my music free tracks are coming along, you’ll be able to synchronize it to the original movie so you should be able to just drop it into your edit.

You magnificent bastard.

😃

I may do this for the PT as well if anyone wants me to

Yes. Yes. Yes. Please. I would kiss you if this wasn’t the Internet. You are the answer to an editors prayers.

Forgot to add that this would be a blessing to all Faneditors. I wouldn’t desire OT as much as PT and TFA though. The two films I feel could use a better soundtrack is TFA and AoTC. Thanks again for attempting this!!! As DL said, you would be the answer to every Faneditors prayers 😃

I’d actually say ROTS is the one that needs it most badly. TFA might be the last I would want.

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That’s two votes for ROTS…get cracking! 😉

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The only problem with the ROTS Soundtrack is that some of the better moments were composed for earlier soundtracks. If you just go by original music ROTS’ Soundtrack is easily comparable to TFA and AOTC.

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ROTS is where Williams got to derive from the cheery type of music to a dark and powerful score. Several songs exclusive to ROTS are way up there IMO. I’ll do ROTS and TFA first.

I haven’t been able to find any versions of “the lost workprint” but I agree that it is a really cool project, I could help if he wants.

Prequel Fan-Edit thread: http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Yet-another-series-of-prequel-edits/id/17329

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Strongly disagree about ROTS soundtrack. It’s the least of the bunch, in my opinion. Not because it’s bad, each track works well on their own and are obviously brilliant. Put together, there’s little cohesion. Not too mention that it’s way over the top “epic” and barely fits with the other scores. Doesn’t feel like Star Wars to me.

Anyway, besides that yeah ROTS reuses a lot of TPM and AOTC music and I feel if they’re going to reuse music it might as well be from the OT.