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I would love a link, thanks!

I am fascinated with the description of Journal of the Whills - The Sequel Trilogy Completely Reimagined. Maybe it can put some good memories of the Sequels in my brain.

You totally have me intrigued to take this journey. Would very much appreciate a link.

That worked extraordinarily well! It got considerably better as it went along. One suggestion that popped in my mind out of nowhere. Was wondering what that opening shot of the two fighters would look like if the frame was completely flipped. Instead of skimming over the ships they would be skimming beneath them. I see a good spot to transition back to regular frame when Anakin has his first line. May look really bad, but at this point I like the idea of making this look and sound like a brand new film.

Once again, great job!

Thanks for the links, greenpenguino! I have been collecting sound fx for a while now and can always use more. I try to mix and manipulate sound and avoid the lazy cliches you can hear so readily in media today. That includes the bloody Wilhelm Scream which immediately takes me out of a scene whenever I hear it.

Incidentally, as I was working on Sebulba's voice, I mixed a cat and some sort of a howling , if I recall.

Here was my original synopsis for the edit-

This is my re-edit of the pod race sequence for what I hoped would be a larger project that laziness has prevented me from getting into at this point. My idea was for the prequels to have been made in a world where George Lucas had made all six films in order and thus Phantom Menace would have been originally released in the mid-1960s. I wanted to give it that sort of a feel by utilizing some of John Williams earlier works into the music track (which has necessitated an all new sound FX track that I have barely started. I have the music and video portions complete, however).

The story itself is self-contained and episodic. Qui-Gon Ginn arrives on Tatoonine alone as a Jedi recruiter after hearing rumors of a young pod racer with extraordinary abilities. (I get the sense that Qui-Gon finds the whole racing concept distasteful by one of his facial expressions).

There is no dialogue and the whole race involves only Anakin and Sebulba and clocks in at under three minutes.

Not sure if anyone will like this but I thought I would put it out there in case anyone may want to pick up the ball and run with the concept. It is my thought that since the prequels are so full of flaws it would be feasible to cut them into pieces and salvage the good parts. The missing story points would simply add to the mystery that the PT is missing. Not everything needed to be shown or explained. It was so much better when I was living during the OT era and my imagination had to fill in the blanks. George was not able to make those details more appealing than my imagination did all those years ago.

One of my goals in the podrace edit was to get rid of the bad taste that the whole movie gave me. Burtt did some great sound for the scene but whenever I hear them now I can only think of all the bad elements of the film. It's guilt by association, if you will. It's a personal thing with me.

Here's a small update since last summer. Lots of layers of sound still to be added.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3so-UrzkdM

I posted this several months ago. I included music from Close Encounters, the original Lost In Space, and snippets of A New Hope.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYw0OAMC1s8

Well, Frink, yours does lend some much-needed realism to the clip. The sense of danger is palpable. Or palpatine. One of those.

Perhaps a small improvement could be made to the prequel duels by making them look somewhat less choreographed. I did a small experiment with the Obi-Wan/Maul duel by running a segment of the footage backwards. It gives the movements a bit more supernatural rather than it looking like a practiced dance recital.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6t_N7ZgRCI

VERY impressed, Cutter! Incorporating variations in those iconic John Williams themes is what I had hoped for in the prequels to begin with. I'm glad to see someone can actually make that a reality. I want your OST album!

Been adding the sound fx a bit at a time. Really trying to remove all the familiar sounds associated with Phantom Menace and replacing them with something more realistic. I have used some fx of Slave 1 from AOTC for Sebulba's pod at some points. That deep, tractor-like growl always appealed to me. That's for the good words, folks. I really appreciate the encouragement.

Totally pointless and utterly brilliant!

I really like the looks of that with the contrast between the planetary colors and the cold gray of the Death Star. Would love to see tiny dots of Imperial traffic darting around.

Here is my short submission to the Jedi Council testing scene. Not much, but I had fun doing it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co9Ap4w5Xh8

That is an amalgam of the original SW score mixed with Close Encounters and Lost In Space. Glad you liked it!

Alright, been

lurking here with this long enough, I guess. This is my re-edit of the pod race sequence for what I hoped would be a larger project that laziness has prevented me from getting into at this point. My idea was for the prequels to have been made in a world where George Lucas had made all six films in order and thus Phantom Menace would have been originally released in the mid-1960s. I wanted to give it that sort of a feel by utilizing some of John Williams earlier works into the music track (which has necessitated an all new sound FX track that I have barely started. I have the music and video portions complete, however).

The story itself is self-contained and episodic. Qui-Gon Ginn arrives on Tatoonine alone as a Jedi recruiter after hearing rumors of a young pod racer with extraordinary abilities. (I get the sense that Qui-Gon finds the whole racing concept distasteful by one of his facial expressions).

There is no dialogue and the whole race involves only Anakin and Sebulba and clocks in at under three minutes.

Not sure if anyone will like this but I thought I would put it out there in case anyone may want to pick up the ball and run with the concept. It is my thought that since the prequels are so full of flaws it would be feasible to cut them into pieces and salvage the good parts. The missing story points would simply add to the mystery that the PT is missing. Not everything needed to be shown or explained. It was so much better when I was living during the OT era and my imagination had to fill in the blanks. George was not able to make those details more appealing than my imagination did all those years ago.

Anyway, here is my contribution as it now stands.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYw0OAMC1s8

"Just let 'em go. I don't know why we ever bother trying to shoot at anyone in the first place."

"Ever wonder how George managed to squeeze actors into these costumes?"

"We are expendable. I just now realized that."

"We'll never last until the closing credits."

"We have been programmed to rape your childhood."

"None of us have ever shot anyone. Ever. Record intact."

I was just about to post that exact thing, corellian77!

Thanks for that.

And it had the "Meanwhile..." line in it as well.

Excellent!

Been lurking here for years. Anyway...

Having a lot of fun with this edit since many of the guardrails inherent in most fanedits are altogether unnecessary here.

One small suggestion is to add a sound element to the goofy transitions. The one that came quickly to mind was the ones used in the old 1970s Superfriends cartoon where you had the noise that accompanied the three approaching comet things and the big lens flare at the end. Also, I would love to hear, at least once, "Meanwhile, at the Hall of Justice," during a cutaway to the Jedi temple. The Superfriends narrator could work very well throughout, though I can't remember how much dialogue he used to have during the average episode and how many phrases would be available.