STAR WARS: EP V "REVISITED EDITION"ADYWAN - 12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW — Page 208

adywan said:

i do want to try and use the Bespin menu scene but not the others. The Hoth one has the AT-AT's at 2 different scales as it pans and doesn't look right, plus the one AT-AT has the guns from the shot it was taken from of the closer AT-AT still present.

That was my thought when I took a look at the youtube video (dang slow internet- took that long to load). The Dagobah sequence seems too fast, and there are already shots covering Luke's landing in the movie. With the Bespin sequence, there's that great long shot of the Falcon and the escorts, which could definitely be used as there was never a shot like that in the original.

And the fact that this discussion even exists is sad. ;)

Monroville said:

Ady: I take it you are considering using the EMPIRE menu scene (or scenes) with your Revisited version (such as the MF approaching Cloud City, etc)?

I know this has been posted before, but here you go (again, maybe?)!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etaA9xWsjbU

If there is a way to incorporate all of these clips, be it Cloud City, Dagobah or Hoth (minus the parts with the actual menus, naturally) that would be pretty spectacular!   I also hear that there is an asteroid chase menu screen as well?  I'm wondering if someone could post all of those different menu screens?

I also take it that the "big huge building" on the right rear of the MF is getting removed?  In fact, you could probably remove the BHB as well as the light beige one also behind the MFs center/right (the one that is kind of poking above the MFs engines).  Could just add in a shorter building and more sky to keep theth focus on the Falcon, not to mention the MF model kind of blends in with that background building.

the asteroid chase menue is a scene selection. i'm sure ady can slow the dagobah menue down and shuffle things around. look wat he's done already. not a problem for him.

Can you guys imagine being one of the majority of Star Wars fans out there that have no clue about these Revisited edits? That would be so sad, especially after seeing all of this amazing new stuff! Those Empire menus are pretty sweet. Ady, you rock man!

gavin77 said:

Can you guys imagine being one of the majority of Star Wars fans out there that have no clue about these Revisited edits? That would be so sad, especially after seeing all of this amazing new stuff! Those Empire menus are pretty sweet. Ady, you rock man!

I'm surprised that the news of this hasn't got out. This is the biggest breakthrough in fan-editing since "The Phantom Edit". That was widely covered, I don't see why Revisited hasn't been picked up by major news outlets.

I agree. We need to start waving the banners. :D Let the world know that Lucas does not have a monopoly on Star Wars! [/irony] :P

Ouch- never thought of that. A cease-and-desist would be a disaster for this project. D:

Ripplin said:

Best not to tempt fate by shouting our love for the Revisited edits from the rooftops, so to speak.

Well, it's a little late on my end. :P My distribution/ranting quotia of IV is now up to 6 copies in 2 weeks, not including a LOT of showing around those Bespin comparison stills. Everyone is blown away when they see them. I think as long as we keep it grassroots, and avoid full-scale publicity, letting people know about it is a good thing.

it would be interesting to see it get an IMDB profile, but i agree with an earlier point. it would be dreadful if we over publisised it only for ady to get shut down. i generally tell anyone i know who is interested, but on the grand scale of things thats not too many. when he is finished the adyvangelism can truly begin so to speak.:P

Gorgeous work Adywan!

Ripplin said:

Oh, I've told a lot of people, too, but I haven't exactly rung up Skywalker Ranch... Haha.

Let's hope Peter Mayhew isn't phoning George regularly about how superior it is, and how he 'got a medal' after all....  ;)

adywan said:

Hopefully i will be using a model shot for the Falcon instead of the painted matte because it lacks detail so the windows will be changed. There are actually a couple of things that i need to fix for the landing shot that i'm really surprised that ILM didn't fix for the SE. The main one is the tiny cloud car that looks like it flies right through the falcon. If they had digitally re-composited all the FX for the SE then this mistake would not still be there. I'm starting to really question the truth of what was said in all those making of the SE docs.

The other thing in that shot is that as the falcon lands on the platform you can  see the platform moves/ wobbles but the matte sections remain static. And i have already added the falcon lights to this shot but i like the idea of them turning on as it lands so i'm probably going to go with that idea.

Ha ha, I happened to only notice those 'cloud car' and slight 'platform wobble' problems myself last night, but had convinced myself that I was imagining things, and that the 'shadow movements' of the Millennium Falcon in the above shot were giving an 'optical illusion' in some way.  Good to know I wasn't seeing things that weren't there. 

This 'model' thing you mention, that will improve the look of the cockpit 'windows' too, sounds awesome by the way.  :) 

I'm glad you happen to like the idea of the lights switching on, once it actually has landed, Adywan.  Can I suggest it might look good if they just come on at the same time that the Millennium Falcon's 'landing gear' 'depresses' down onto the platform (indicating it's FULLY landed), which happens just after the 'jets' shoot out.  They would still be seen long enough for a subtle moment, before the shot cuts to the next one of Han emerging.  If you personally prefer that they come on at a point before this, cool beans, as I'm just glad they will be seen in this shot somewhere.

I don't have a shot of it handy, but something else to consider would be the shot of the 'stationary' Millennium Falcon that is seen immediately after the scene of 'Vader inside his black chamber', too.

When we previously saw it, the Falcon switched on bright white lights from the front of it's formost 'prongs', as it flew into the 'asteroid cave'.  This seems fine, considering the darkness of the situation, and looks good.

However, where we normally see the small 'off-centre' lights on the 'prongs' as being RED....in the 'stationary' shot of the Falcon in the 'cave', they are shown shining white.  I'd like to see these (and the hint of their glow) changed to RED too, if possible, to tie things in better with the likes of the shots on the platform.

Note: the ones on the Falcon in JEDI are inconsistent throughout it's flying inside the Deathstar II, with some shots showing RED, some WHITE, and some NONE.  If you do keep any of the 'prong' lights in JEDI, rather than remove them all (removal happens to be my own preference), then perhaps they can just be amended to be all WHITE in those JEDI shots, and keep the consistency of RED lights as being the 'stationary' , landed Falcon 'default' .  But that's all for another day.

I reckon Han had made some 'modifications' along the way, and that's why they weren't seen on the Falcon in A New Hope, by the way.  :)  

I almost forgot, as far as the SE shot of the Falcon approaching the platform, and slowing down as it is about to land on it (in the shot immediately before the one above), I think the thing that made it seem somewhat 'flattened' at that point, was the possibility that we should actually be able to see a hint of some of the 'landing gear' legs sticking out underneath the side of the CGI Falcon, nearest to us, at some point within the last 3 seconds of the shot, just before it cuts to the above shot.  

You'd need to study the footage carefully, and it would be quite subtle, but it now seems to me that this would go a long way to 'fattening-up' the look of the Falcon at this point, and matching the shot above, a lot better.