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Having finished my edit of the 2007 Transformers Movie (Transformers: Reformatted) I’ve started on an edit of Revenge of the Fallen. My goal is much the same as it was for the 2007 movie, which was to trim as much of what I felt didn’t work and to improve the pacing while maintaining all the key points to the plot being sure not to leave any gaps that will cause confusion (I know some of you already think it’s confusing).
Where possible I will try and clean up any minor problems with consistency or inaccuracies.
The first movie I made several passes through and went back and forth working on and changing my cuts. Due to the software I’m using this caused many headaches from having to realign video to audio since it doesn’t allow you to lock an audio file to the video file. For ROTF I’ve been starting from the beginning and slowly working my way through, completing a cut/transition before going to the next. Currently I am working on the Jetfire portion of the movie.
Some of the cuts I’ve made so far include:
*The entire introduction with The Fallen and prehistoric man.
*All of Optimus’ voice over during the Shanghai scene.
*Moved the title sequence to the end of the Shanghai scene.
*Trimmed Sam & Parents at the beginning somewhat (and dogs humping).
*Trimmed Bumblebee in the garage (crying).
*Trimmed the last line from the Nest hanger.
*Trimmed Leo’s roommates some as well as some of Sam’s parents.
*Trimmed Sam/Alice at party and part of the car scene.
*Trimmed Megatron/Starscream on Nemesis and trimmed end of scene.
*Trimmed classroom flirtation bit.
*Trimmed Sam in his room and w/Alice.
*Trimmed talk in the library.
*Cut repeated footage of Soundwave.
*Cut Sam’s parents with the mime.
*Cut Galloway shutting down NEST.
*Trimmed meat shop (no more talk about teeth).
*Cut Simmon’s ass.
*Cut Leo shocking himself.
*Cut Jetfire talking about his family being there for “centuries”.
Now that’s about as far as I’ve finished. I’ve begun on the next one or two cuts and I’m trying to remove the farting parachute scene, but need to make the scene flow right without it. It’s a little difficult because the humans fall to the ground in the middle of the scene and then get back up after he falls down. I’ll keep it if I have to, but would rather not. I also want to remove (during the desert part) Jetfire talking about how The Fallen hated humans. I really want to get rid of reference to humans from when the Fallen was around before so as to allow for that time to be a lot longer ago than the 17,000 B.C. that is shown in the intro. I have an idea for this part, but I’m not sure it will work yet (it didn’t). If anyone has suggestions on the best way to do it, I’m all ears.
I’m also trying to think of a name for this edit. Right now I’m thinking about, “The Kitten Calendar Edition.” It really has nothing to do with the edit, but is just a goofy title.
I should mention that those who hated the Twins probably will not like my cut. My wife and I loved the Twins and every single frame involving those 2 will remain in this fanedit. Wheelie will also remain mostly intact, with possible minor trimming. Really outside of parts at the beginning and a little of the Nemesis scene, there will be very little cut involving the Transformers (Devastator’s balls will be cut of course). Sam’s parents will be trimmed to an extent that might satisfy some, but might not be enough for others (both home and school scenes will be trimmed though).
Edit: I’ve started on some of the later cuts in the film as well, but not to the point of cleaning up the audio, mainly just eliminating the footage I know I don’t want and creating the clips I’m going to work with. I think, if I get much time this next week or so I may be able to finish the editing aspect of the project (of course I didn’t get much editing done the last couple weeks). From there it will be working on the menus etc.
