Darth_Zounds

Please excuse my double post.

I would really appreciate people’s thoughts on these fan edits.

What changes are you enjoying?

What changes are you disliking?

Good or bad, I would love to see some feedback.

May the Force be with you, everyone!

EDIT:

Off and on, I’ve been thinking about something.

During the Order 66 montage, would it be better if there were superimposed titles?

They could be placed somewhere like the top left of the screen and be formatted like “Jedi, Planet.”

Like this:

KI-ADI-MUNDI, MYGEETO

AAYLA SECURA, FELUCIA

PLO KOON, CATO NEIMOIDIA

STASS ALLIE, SALEUCAMI

I’m kind of on the fence about this kind of edit.

On one hand, I feel like it’s awesome to provide this kind of info for viewers who are new fans of ‘Star Wars.’

On the other hand, it may make this space opera film feel too much like a mainstream movie.

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Finally, I’ve finished uploading a collection of six ‘Star Wars’ fan edits that I prefer over anything else, all with my custom style of light blue text crawls.

The Prequels are more or less my take. For Episode 1, I used the edit of AOTC by HAL9000 and made some more adjustments that I think make it a lot more watchable, mainly deleting any and all cringe scenes with Anakin and Padme; I even inserted the two best sequences from ‘The Phantom Menace’ as flashbacks.

There’s also a mid-credit teaser for Episode 2: Labyrinth of Evil, which basically introduces Ahsoka Tano, shows us a montage of Anakin and Ahsoka being bad-ass in the Clone War, and then shows a story concerning an attack on the Jedi Temple, which is the significance of the title.

Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith is a roughly three-hour compilation of Ahsoka Tano’s Siege of Mandalore and Anakin Skywalker’s climactic turn to the dark side of the Force.

For the Original Trilogy, I took my favorite fan edits of each film and seamlessly inserted my style of custom text crawl. ANH was edited by IlFanEditore; TESB was edited by Adywan; ROTJ was edited by IlFanEditore.

By happenstance, I already sent out one PM with links to all six of these.

Everyone can still feel free to ask for links and then enjoy a six-movie marathon!

I would like a link, please!

I’m not sure if this is the right thread for this, but I’ve picked out my favorite fan edits for the OT.

For ANH, it’s fan edited by IlFanEditore.

For TESB, it’s fan edited by Adywan.

For ROTJ, it’s fan edited by IlFanEditore.

I’m working on implementing my own custom text crawls to each for a complete Blue Harvest Hexology.

Lately, I kind of wonder, is there a fan edit of TESB that might become my favorite of its kind?

Please do not send me a link, as I prefer the CG Clone Wars series. 😉

Delpheas said:

EddieDean said:

Skybatman said:

Did you plan to take your edit, and make a fan edit with Clone Wars ?

If NFB doesn’t do this, then I absolutely will once NFB’s is complete.

I’m actually working on that, if you wanna check my thread:

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Fall-of-the-Republic-The-Clone-WarsRevenge-of-the-Sith-Prequel-Finale-Edit-Clips-available-rough-draft-coming-a-WIP/id/74382

😃

I actually already did that, but I applaud your efforts!

Excuse the double-post; just thought of something else regarding the Cantina sequence.

Replace the Jizz music with the track “Grandmaster Jam Session” from ‘Thor: Ragnarok.’

Last night, while watching a fan edit of A New Hope that I added a custom text crawl to, I actually thought of making a change to the Cantina sequence.

The change I considered making was to remove all the shots of various aliens all over.

That idea came from a slight misunderstanding of what the scene is about.

It’s NOT about showing off special effects for alien creatures and such.

It’s a scene from Luke’s point of view; he’s been sheltered as a moisture farmer, and he’s just NOW stepping foot in the greater world and seeing what variety of races there are in the Galaxy.

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In this fan edit, I basically did my best to replace the 2008 Clone Wars movie with something more epic in scope.

We start with an opening text crawl in a light blue hue, of course.

In the Battle of Christophsis, Anakin receives his own Jedi apprentice, although he is baffled by this and even frustrated with her antics.

At the end of the battle, he tells her, “You wouldn’t have made it as Obi-Wan’s Padawan, but you might make it as mine.”

Then, there is a montage of six scenes of Anakin and Ahsoka being bad-ass throughout their adventures in the Clone War; an important feature of these scenes is they show them growing and playing off each other as well.

Later, we see Ahsoka rescuing Anakin from an assault of buzz droids sabotaging Anakin’s Eta-2 Actis-class interceptor.

Soon after, both are requested to solve a mystery regarding a bombing at the Jedi Temple, the sacred home of the Jedi.

At the very, very end, there is also a post-credit scene that ties directly into Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith!

Recently, I finally cut together an edit of ‘AOTC’ I finally feel is watchable.

You read my title right, I moved ‘AOTC’ over to Episode 1 in the Prequel Trilogy!

First, I started with the edit by HAL9000 as a foundation and made adjustments from there.

Toward the beginning, there were several scenes that I felt continue for longer than necessary.

For instance, after the bombing on the landing platform, I made sure we see Padme’s reaction and then wipe to the next scene.

Also, I played with a clever gimmick where I used a scene’s establishing shot to reveal a snippet of dialog, and then swiftly cut to the meat of the scene, while seamlessly continuing said dialog.

During the montage of Anakin searching for Shmi, I realized I felt awkward about the placement of the shots. I ended up with the following:

1. Anakin speeding through canyons.
2. Anakin receiving directions from Jawa in front of Sandcrawler.
3. Anakin flying past rock formations with more intensity.

This time, I also used music by Two Steps from Hell, specifically the instrumental version of the song “Victory.”

Let’s see, what else? Oh, yeah.

Also, I inserted a mid-credit scene.

During the Battle of Christophsis, we see Anakin receiving his own Jedi apprentice, even though he’s always been against having his own. Ahsoka insists her instructions from Yoda were specific, and Anakin is baffled.

Cut back to credits.

That is teasing my in-between-quel, Episode 2: Labyrinth of Evil.

Also, I implemented a custom text crawl with a light blue hue.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk. I hope some people may be interested!

anakinskywalker said:

Hi I really enjoyed your edit thanks very much it is great you improved anakin and made him more likeable also I’m just wondering if you or anyone has earlier versions of the edit also I’m just curious thanks

Yo, the walker of skies himself says he likes your work!

Excuse me, I couldn’t resist.

Yeah, well, if you watched ‘The Clone Wars’ CG series, you’ll have gotten to know Ki-Adi-Mundi, Aayla Secura, Plo Koon, and Adi Gallia!

I kid. To each their own.

Not sure if this was already addressed, but why do you want to remove the Order 66 montage?

Based on feedback in this thread, I’ve now uploaded a new version of my fan edit.

After facing technical difficulties, I decided to upload it in two parts, about 1.5 hours each.

On my end, I am now 100 percent satisfied with my fan edit, however jaded I happen to be from editing it again and again and again and again and again.

Please PM me if you’d like to have the two links.

As always, may the Force be with you!

Please excuse all my extra posts with my after-thoughts, but while re-editing, I noticed a mistake on my part, and I humbly take note of it here.

In the edit that I just published, it seems I forgot to include the scene where Maul uses the Force to sabotage the hyperdrive of the Venator-class Star Destroyer that was transporting Ahsoka Tano and 332nd Company.

My new cut will include that sequence, for sure.

Okay, I’m just going to re-iterate a few main notes to make sure I’m tracking everything for my adjustments and improvements; for the non-veterans, “tracking” is a word used for paying attention, etc.

Adjust the volume so the live-action and animated segments are about as loud as the other; that may be tricky, but I will sure do my best.

Add in wipes between the live-action and animated segments; I will do so MOST of the time, but when the action really picks up, like between the duel between Maul and Ahsoka and the fight between Grievous and Obi-Wan, I’ll intercut more quickly. Also, in certain scenes, I feel it’s appropriate to slowly fade in and slowly fade to black.

Revise the opening crawl. This is what my new draft says:

Episode 3

REVENGE OF THE SITH

Over three years, the Galactic Republic has been at war with the Confederacy of Independent Systems; countless lives have been lost on thousands of worlds.

Although Ahsoka Tano walked away from the Jedi Order, she now joins forces with Mandalorian warriors and Clone Troopers of Anakin Skywalker to capture Maul.

In a stunning move, Separatist forces have ambushed Coruscant and abducted the Supreme Chancellor; two Jedi Knights lead a mission to rescue him and reclaim peace for a crumbling Republic.

JKMaxx suggested revising the text crawl, so I’ve been playing with it some more.

Just to get this out of the way, I’m changing episode Roman Numerals to Arabic Numerals; as my dad once said, Roman Numerals are a lost ark.

INTRO CRAWL:

Episode 3

REVENGE OF THE SITH

Over three years, the Galactic Republic has been at war with the Confederacy of Independent Systems; countless lives have been lost on thousands of worlds.

Although Ahsoka Tano walked away from the Jedi Order, she now joins forces with Mandalorian warriors and Clone Troopers of Anakin Skywalker to capture Maul.

In a stunning move, Separatist forces have ambushed Coruscant and abducted the Supreme Chancellor; two Jedi Knights lead a mission to rescue him and reclaim peace for a crumbling Republic.

PAN DOWN.

Anakin Starkiller said:

With all due respect to his efforts, I feel that is an excessive amount of fan service.

The whole concept of intercutting RotS and the Siege of Mandalore is already a lot of fanservice.

I can understand that point of view.

However, I deleted a handful of scenes that I’d felt were slowing down the story of ROTS; without the SoM scenes, it would only be an hour and a half.

EDIT:

For me, this fan edit isn’t really fan service as much as it is showing a more complete story, where each half of the story informs the other, especially in the scene where Ahsoka does some quick research on Fives that uncovers the mystery behind Order 66.

JKMaxx said:
I find that RotS was much louder than the TCW footage so the audio transitions were jarring as well.

A friend of mine told me the opposite, so I guess I must have compensated too much for that. I’ll see what I can do.

As for the hard cuts as opposed to wipes, I simply felt that it helped to truly emphasize that both Anakin and Ahsoka’s journeys are happening more or less simultaneously.

Hm. Maybe I could still try more wipes in some places.

JKMaxx said:
I also think the crawl text might need revising.

What might you recommend for the crawl text?

JKMaxx said:
the post-credits Vader scene could probably be bumped up closer to the end of the credits; a minute between is quite a long time.

I see.

In a fan edit of AOTC, I did something I think that you’re suggesting: Shortly after the credits started, I showed a quick intro of Ahsoka Tano, which ended right when Anakin was baffled about getting an apprentice. Maybe I can do something similar, albeit with a somber tone.

JKMaxx said:

This is a really strong start and I think you have something great on your hands!

Thank you so much, I really appreciate that.

Honestly, I’ve been editing and re-editing this off and on for the past three months, almost since the Corona virus pandemic started.

You can almost say I’m weary of this by now, yet I also enjoy appreciating this beautiful tragedy more and more.

Maybe with your critiques, I can continue to make this even better!