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So you used alternate takes for that? Pretty interesting.
One thing I noticed though, you said you flipped shots when necessary, but I noticed a few shots of Obi-Wan around the 40-50 sec mark breaking the 180. For one shot he is on one side of the frame and then in the next he’s on the other side. Also, when Vader says, “You should not have come back.” That shot is also on the opposite side of the generally established 180. Is this intentional to make the duel feel more chaotic?
I noticed how you have him do that spin to fake his movement to the opposite side to Vader and I think that works.
But I personally think you should flip those shots to match the 180. If you flipped them for continuity, I wouldn’t worry about it, because your audience would notice the 180 break before they would notice someone’s hands positioned on their lightsaber differently or the buttons on Vader’s chestbox being on the wrong side. Besides, this version still has a continuity error, with the saber mark on the wall being visible before Vader ever hits the wall.Also, I like the use of some of the new saber sounds, but there are some I think that are a little too much. There is one that you use a few times that sounds like someone dipping hot metal into water, or sorta like a tire screeching. Don’t know how else to describe it but I feel like it doesn’t fit. Maybe it is just me and its because I know they weren’t there originally, so probably not a big deal.
Also, I noticed you used a saber ignition sound at one point in the middle of the fight, I actually think it is the sound specifically used for Vader’s saber, which I was going to suggest you use instead of the more generic saber ignitions used for Obi and Luke. If you go back and watch the Bespin duel you can hear the difference between Luke’s and Vader’s.
Anyway, just a couple of thoughts.
Snooker, I can get it was a pain to track. Still not perfect but it definitely looks more like the ST style of the blade.
Honestly, I really like how Luke’s saber seemed more Cyan than Blue in the first movie. It kind of differentiated it from all the other blue sabers. But if you were to try to make the blade consistent through all the films, it would be easier to make that cyan to blue rather than the opposite, since it is blue more.
Yeah I noticed that also on the “you should not have come back” feels a bit off off but vader is correct as in he should be flopped so it might be that I missed something there. It could be Kenobi is incorrect or we may have another missing shot or rearrangement. Or if I have not missed anything and this was how it was shot and because it feels a small bit dizzy as we do this 180 quite a few times this was perhaps the reason for flipping the shots in the duel. Potentially you could flip Vaders chest plate and keep him the same perhaps as an alternative but that is perhaps cheating.
The sound effects were more a demonstration that actually call that final but i think the Vader igniting sound may very well be part of the original mix.
