Cutnshut's Jedi (* unfinished project *)

This weekend I started my own edit of Return of the Jedi :p

OMG not another jedi edit! yeah i know theres a few in the works now but it was either this or episode 1…

this is the first time i’ve ever tried editing and thought it was about time i tried it.

…I’ve used Womble and following ADM’s editing guide managed to produce the first 9 minutes of a movie! wow…

heres the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzridF3ZJQs

list of changes:

• removed the opening crawl from the movie. I’ve heard the opening star wars theme too many times over the years and wanted to avoid using it in my edit. I thought it would be nice to see a star wars film start differently.

I like the opening credit sequence to Alien 3 so used that as a guide here.

• The Empire is cut from the beginning of the movie it will be used later on.

• The movie now starts at Jabba’s Palace - I wanted the opening sequence to be darker in spirit and have a more mysterious tone to it.

• Changed the music where ever possible for some reason…

• cut out C3PO’s wailing, it’s about time he became braver! and don’t say its not in his programming!

• Jabba now speaks less and there is no need for subtitles as 3PO translates what you need to know.

• Some cuts in Lukes holo message to Jabba - he’s more to the point now

• no more eve99 or whatever the hell droid it is… it just wasted time and cut from the main plot at this point.

• Cut the music number and party antics

the video ends after Chewbacca is (seeming…) captured… oooh

This will be the end of the opening credits and then the next scene would be off to dagobah to introduce luke. I kinda stole the idea for this off Spence (i think, well i know thats what someone was going to do in their edit)… Good idea there 😃

so thats the next thing ill be doing…

anyway hope you like my video and let me know what you think!

Thanks for your comments already!

hmm, yeah it doesnt quite work - think i'll try something else.

As for the music is from Shadows of the Empire soundtrack CD (Joel McNeely,1996).

Thanks for the encouragement - I'll see how it goes, when i started the opening credits I had a clear goal in mind but after i got editing i realised I couldnt cut too much out of jabba's palace or the plot would be broken - and then made the credits go on for too long.

I dismissed it originally, but I like Ben_Dangers idea of incorporating some flash backs from Empire Strikes Back.

Im not trying to improve Return of the Jedi im just making an alternative version.

I need to plan out what i want to do and experiment to work out what will and won't work.

I will have a look at the Indiana Jones credits to see how they work without fading to black. Im also a big fan of TMBTM's War of the Stars, so i'll have a look at how he used credits as well.

I've heard in the Radio Drama for Return of the Jedi there are some extended scenes - does anyone know what they are?

thanks

edit: not needed now.