Make that a full hour.
My deconstruction of the first Star Wars is now complete.
It probably runs about an hour and 40 minutes, or so ...
Quite long ... also quite complete. Even die-hard Star Wars fans ought to discover some interesting new things from this one ... or at least have fun with the film in a new way.
I could release this on DVD ...
but I am planning on doing featurettes on the major deleted scenes, and extended featurettes on Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi first. As well as a still picture gallery detailing lots more deleted scenes info.
We'll see!
Jedikev .... The DVD will probably be out soon enough. I'll let this site know when it is ... those who want it can email tygerbug at yahoo.com when I've made that announcement.
Yes, the final DVD will be feature-length. I want to put some extra stuff into it because I want to make the ultimate Star Wars deleted scenes DVD to date. Dig that.
Now - why is the new part of the Star Wars deconstruction so long? Well, there's lots of good stuff there, including a new version of the final trench run down the Death Star. The scene is presented in its entirety, except that it's all in the original scripted order ... a very different, and rather strange, experience.
You'll meet the original Wedge, and the original ... Wilhelm?
I can actually use some help on the still pictures galleries, if anyone wants to chip in to this project a little bit.
The idea is to present a bunch of slideshows of still images, and as the viewer clicks through them he'll read script excerpts and descriptions and of course see photos from the deleted scenes ... especially for ESB and ROTJ, where most of the deleted scene info we have is still pictures and script excerpts rather than rolling video.
If you'd like to contribute a "visual essay" to the still pictures gallery ... get photos together and provide your own comments on certain deleted scenes, you can send it to me, and I'll use it in the DVD.
Images can be gotten from starwarz.com/tbone or wherever else ... as well as from the official DVDs and the Definitive Collection laserdisc.
Interesting Star Wars related photos also accepted.
Our font is Adobe Caslon, bold. Background should be a simple starfield. The Deleted Magic logo can be seen at starwarz.com/deletedmagic.
Images should be done at 800 x 600, then resized to 720 x 480 and saved as a JPEG ... compressed as little as possible (quality level 12 in photoshop).
I'll probably have some examples online soon.
You can email this to tygerbug at yahoo.com ... with the images in a zip file.
Cheers!