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I’ve been hesitant to announce this one, as its a big project for my first major edit, but after some e-mail conversations with ADigitalMan, I figure I can tackle this project and make it work.
The idea is to take the story of Luke from the OT and use PT footage to illustrate the stories of varying truths that Obi-Wan and Yoda told Luke in his training, particularly where it relates to the fate of his father. This will be done with edited footage, in some cases drastically edited footage that will create entirely new scenes. Basically I’m taking the story of Luke, as shown in all three movies from the OT and focusing on him and him only. As he learns more and more about his adversary, Darth Vader, he learns more and more of the truth, so the story in each act will grow a little closer to the truth, in some ways like what was shown in Jet Li’s Hero. It will keep getting closer to reality until going into the final confrontation, he of course has the whole truth, not simply the version that Obi-Wan gave him.
The toughest part of this to show in flashbacks will be the earliest footage.
“Your father was murdered by Darth Vader.”
That’s not the actual line, I know, but I’m betting that all of you can figure out what that means I intend to show in that footage. I’m calling this scene the big migraine maker.
There also will likely be some other, lesser flashbacks used as well. I’ve already planned on showing flashes of Obi-Wan from the PT as a flashback when Luke asks Old Ben if he’s related to an Obi-Wan Kenobi. “That’s a name I haven’t heard for a long time… a long time.” Stuff like that
I’m not putting a deadline on this, but there’s a possibility I can have it done by the end of December, which would give me an outside shot at submitting this project to the Fan Edit contest. There’s a lot of work to be done before I can have that as a reality though. I have two weeks of vacation coming in November, after the release of ROTS, and that will give me a good chunk of time to get some stuff done.
If anyone has any suggestions for techniques or software, I’m open to them. I’d like to make this look as much like an official release as possible, including a crawl of some sort, but I don’t think I have the resources and knowledge to do that. If anyone can help with that, I’d appreciate any help that could be given, as I know that some others here have generated their own crawl.
We’ll see what happens, but I’m optimistic for now.
"Luminous beings are we -- not this crude matter." ~~Master Yoda
"I find your lack of faith disturbing." ~~Lord Vader