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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: The Exodus Edition (a WIP)

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Deathly Hallows as it should have been: a more focused, entertaining and magical finale that streamlines both parts into one big, epic conclusion to the Harry Potter franchise!

PROPOSED LIST OF CHANGES

  • Overall colour correction (Cyan tint removed/brighter picture)
  • Add Harry & Petunia deleted scene
  • Remove “Part 1” from the title, courtesy of Q2/Thunderclap
  • Cut Pius’ introduction
  • Cut Harry running on top of a bus during the sky battle
  • Cut George’s “I’m holey” joke
  • Cut Harry trying to leave the Burrow
  • Cut Harry/Ginny “zip me up” scene
  • Cut all references to Bathilda Bagshot and Godric’s Hollow
  • Cut Aunt Muriel at the wedding
  • Cut Hermione’s line, “That’ll be the books.”
  • Recut the café fight and aftermath
  • Cut the Dumbledore dust spectre
  • Cut Hermione teaching Ron piano
  • Tighten Ministry of Magic sequence for pacing, urgency and tension
  • Add deleted scene discussing the locket
  • Recut exodus montage, based on AEmovieguy’s 90 Minute Wicked Edition
  • Cut Ron leaving
  • Cut Harry and Hermione dancing
  • Cut Hermione’s line about staying in the forest and growing old together
  • Cut Harry’s wand being broken
  • Cut Harry and Ron discussing the Deluminator
  • Cut Ron’s line, “Mum always said ‘midnight’.”
  • Shorten the Snatcher chase to be slightly more understandable
  • Move Voldemort finding the Elder Wand to before the Malfoy Manor sequence
  • Recut Dobby’s death
  • Trim conversation with Ollivander to avoid redundancy
  • Cut Ron and Seamus’ exchange about Ginny
  • Restore unused piece of music during Snape’s speech in the Great Hall
  • Cut Slytherin house being sent to the dungeons
  • Add Lupin & Tonks deleted scene (green screen fixed)
  • Cut Ron opening the Chamber of Secrets
  • Recut the Fiendfyre sequence
  • Cut Voldemort and Lucius at the boathouse
  • Add Voldemort’s theme from Philosopher’s Stone before he uses Sectumsempra on Snape
  • Trim Snape’s demise by removing one of Nagini’s bites (might leave it in)
  • Cut Harry saying goodbye to Hermione and Ron on his way to the Forbidden Forest
  • Cut Narcissa checking up on Harry
  • Cut the awkward Voldemort/Draco hug
  • Restructure the final battle to be more exciting
  • Recut the Molly/Bellatrix duel
  • Alter Harry and co.’s voices during the epilogue
  • Many, many more trims throughout!

Special thanks to Anjohan for his kind and encouraging words!

“The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.”
-Sheev Palpatine, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005)

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Here’s a quick comparison of the visual changes made to Parts 1 and 2.

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Adjustments

“The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.”
-Sheev Palpatine, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005)

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Molly vs. Bellatrix:
https://vimeo.com/568449410

(Would someone care to change the thread’s title to “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Exodus”, please?)

“The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.”
-Sheev Palpatine, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005)

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You have some really exciting stuff here. I love the color correction and your take on Ron leaving.
I am curious to see what you are cutting out of your edit, since you are putting back some of the deleted scenes (many of which are crucial to the film).

CamSMurph said:

Molly vs. Bellatrix:
https://vimeo.com/568449410

(Would someone care to change the thread’s title to “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Exodus”, please?)

Is there a way to remove Bellatrix getting chopped to pieces? I never liked that choice, since it is never established that Avada Kedavra can do that to a person. Also, it kind of takes away Voldemort’s “special way of dying”.

Anyway, keep up the good work and I will definetely be looking forward to check out the final result!

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ThanosM. said:

You have some really exciting stuff here. I love the color correction and your take on Ron leaving.
I am curious to see what you are cutting out of your edit, since you are putting back some of the deleted scenes (many of which are crucial to the film).

CamSMurph said:

Molly vs. Bellatrix:
https://vimeo.com/568449410

(Would someone care to change the thread’s title to “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Exodus”, please?)

Is there a way to remove Bellatrix getting chopped to pieces? I never liked that choice, since it is never established that Avada Kedavra can do that to a person. Also, it kind of takes away Voldemort’s “special way of dying”.

Anyway, keep up the good work and I will definetely be looking forward to check out the final result!

I know AEmovieguy was going to attempt something similar for his “Whole Wicked Edition” until he mysteriously disappeared from the forums no less than seven years ago. Take note of the two specific changes in his cutlist for Part 2:
[img]https://i.imgur.com/XfrzgNY.jpg[/img]

This seems like a very ambitious change, indeed. I have no idea how he would have — or did, for that matter — accomplish this specific alteration, but it sounds doable to me. If I can gather enough information on this, I’ll surely see what I can do in this case. 😉

“The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.”
-Sheev Palpatine, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005)

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CamSMurph said:

Here’s a quick comparison of the visual changes made to Parts 1 and 2
Password: lumos

The color and general effect of your brightness and contrast are awesome! 😃 But in the final shot of your three examples in that video (from March 20) — the shot with Ron and Hermione, Harry — you can see (especially with the ground) that you are losing a good amount of detail due to brightness/contrast blow out. Maybe play with the settings on that one to see if you can both keep your overall look and more of the detail? (Or maybe you’ve tweaked that already since that post? It is a few months old now.)

That’s just a quick thought for kicks. Good stuff, CamSMurph, keep up the good work! 😃

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WXM said:

CamSMurph said:

Here’s a quick comparison of the visual changes made to Parts 1 and 2
Password: lumos

The color and general effect of your brightness and contrast are awesome! 😃 But in the final shot of your three examples in that video (from March 20) — the shot with Ron and Hermione, Harry — you can see (especially with the ground) that you are losing a good amount of detail due to brightness/contrast blow out. Maybe play with the settings on that one to see if you can both keep your overall look and more of the detail? (Or maybe you’ve tweaked that already since that post? It is a few months old now.)

That’s just a quick thought for kicks. Good stuff, CamSMurph, keep up the good work! 😃

Thank you for your kind feedback. I’m currently messing around with Adobe Premiere Pro and I’ve actually gotten a head start on developing an entirely new intro heavily inspired by these two videos:
https://youtu.be/DnCsp44f8Ow
https://youtu.be/3hL7lTbP4eI

I’ve already altered the colour grading since then, and I cannot wait for you to see it when the time comes!

“The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.”
-Sheev Palpatine, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005)

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Updated the main post!

“The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.”
-Sheev Palpatine, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005)

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COLOUR CORRECTION EXAMPLES

Part 1
Part 2

“The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.”
-Sheev Palpatine, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005)

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Looks good. Only thing I see that I don’t know will work is Ron not leaving - there’s no way to really explain why he doesn’t go to Godric’s Hollow with them.

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nightstalkerpoet said:

Looks good. Only thing I see that I don’t know will work is Ron not leaving - there’s no way to really explain why he doesn’t go to Godric’s Hollow with them.

I’m actually figuring out how I’m going to pull that off. Not gonna lie, I’m kind of nervous as to how it’ll turn out. 😅

I’ll keep it in for now and come back to it later.

“The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.”
-Sheev Palpatine, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005)

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CAFÉ FIGHT AND AFTERMATH

  • Re-edited for pacing and urgency.

https://streamable.com/hr0s0a

“The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.”
-Sheev Palpatine, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005)