ImperialFighter said:
Tomo, after we see and hear the ships overhead, I guess you’re just cutting from Rey turning and starting to run back through the woods with BB-8, directly to the shot of Maz leading Han, Finn, & Chewie to the lightsabre, and then directly to Rey & BB-8 finishing off running through the woods towards the ‘palace’ then?Yeah that’s how I felt it worked best, given that you already see that the TIEs are advancing when Rey watches them overhead, I didn’t think the shot showed you anything you didn’t already know.
Thanks for the responses.
Just to recap - one of the reasons I’m wanting to include the ‘Apocalypse Now’ shot immediately before the ‘Finn, Han, Chewie & Maz in corridor’ scene, is because I’m planning to JOIN TOGETHER the ‘Kylo talking to Vader’s mask’ scene directly in front of the WHOLE ‘Hux’s speech/Starkiller firing on planets/Han, Finn & others looking upwards’ sequence, beforehand.
And so I reckon that after Rey initially sees the ships overhead and begins to run back, that there’s even more time to get away with showing the brief ‘Apocalypse Now’ shot of the TIEs still flying, before we then see the ‘Maz/lightsabre’ scene, and then see Rey finish off running back towards the 'palace.
In other words, the extended ‘cut-away’ sequence of ‘Kylo/Vader’s mask’ and the FULL ‘Hux’s speech etc.’ (which ends with Finn asking “Where’s Rey?”) joined together will make it seem as if Rey had a slightly longer time to run through the woods (approx. an additional minute due to the ‘Kylo/Vaders mask’ scene being added) before we cut back to her stopping to rest/talking to BB-8/then seeing the ships overhead, and turning back…and therefore, the ships will seem to have a slightly longer way to travel before they reach the ‘palace’ too! But I won’t know how successful this will look until I eventually cut things together for myself.
And for an alternative version where the ‘Starkiller weapon’ fires AFTER Han’s death, I’m going to try the shortened, ‘stylised’ version I described previously where we’d see Rey turning, and beginning to run back…followed by the ‘Finn looking around as he boards the yellow pirate ship’ shot…followed by the ‘Apocalypse Now’ shot, before we then go on to seeing the ‘Maz/lightsabre’ scene - as in this version I will have a different extended 'cut-away sequence before Rey turns back…which will be the ‘Kylo talking to Vader’s mask’ scene JOINED TOGETHER in front of the ‘Hux speech’ section only (ending where all the troopers raise their arms), before cutting to the shots of people at their consoles as we then see the first ‘sun-sucking’ shots.
(By the way, I can PM you a link to 'Noodle_Finger’s TFA edit at some point tomorrow (which is hopefully still avail.), as I’m pushed for time right now)