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#558881
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Collaborative Fanediting: An ROTJ Proposition (BACK ON TRACK WITH EMANSWFAN AT THE HELM--SEE POST 1488 OR OP FOR A LINK!)
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I was just thinking it would be a way to redeem him further... it's almost like an apology. I'd say Luke could do it, but that would be even harder...

oh well lol just an idea I had :-p

 

Now that I've thought of it though... it could be some random voice over... almost like a montage... you have all those shots of the ships flying into the core of the Death Star... you could cut between that and shots of planets around the galaxy with someone on the com saying

"Attention all Citizens of the former Galactic Republic: Your Emperor is dead! His weapon of death is in ruin!"

 

or is that cheesy?

 

 

As as being said, have him call a cease fire... that would be rather moving actually

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#558859
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Collaborative Fanediting: An ROTJ Proposition (BACK ON TRACK WITH EMANSWFAN AT THE HELM--SEE POST 1488 OR OP FOR A LINK!)
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True... and my thought was in the celebration they tear down the statue of Palpatine and are harassing a storm trooper so I always assumed the Empire had been effectively dissolved. But something along those lines announcing that the Emperor is dead ... it wouldn't and shouldn't be a long speech but perhaps something just saying the Emperor is dead...

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#558854
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Collaborative Fanediting: An ROTJ Proposition (BACK ON TRACK WITH EMANSWFAN AT THE HELM--SEE POST 1488 OR OP FOR A LINK!)
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I dunno if this is a good idea or not, maybe not... but I wonder if there wouldn't be a way to add a small scene at the end before Vader dies... I wonder if its possible because we'd need someone who could do the voice of him.

 

After he's killed the Emperor and throws him down the chute...I wonder if we couldn't add a line "I have one more thing I must do."

 

We cut back to the battles and then we return to find vader sitting in his Black and white Ball thing. He turns to face the view screen, which could say something along the lines of "All sub-space channels Open."

 

To which he begins to speak a speech as we cut throughout the Galaxy.

 

"Your Empire has failed you. Your Emperor has oppressed you. But no more! The Emperor is dead. Your Empire is hereby dissolved and the Republic Senate is reinstated. The age of the Jedi will return."

Then we cut to the rebals flying into the death star, perhaps oblivious to it and destroy the Reactor. or they hear it on the speaker but its too late, they are going to finish the job.

This would seemingly build up a sort of...three step climax. First the death of the Emperor which is then bookended by the speech, then the destruction of the Death Star, and then the final Celebration at the end.

 

I think it would add a nice touch to the film. You could easily reuse old footage and it would only need someone to do the speech over it and the replacement of the view screen seen in Empire and some smart sourcing of shots from the other films to show everyone hearing it.

This would also explain how the entire Galaxy knew instantly tha thte Rebals had succeeded lol

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#558310
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Collaborative Fanediting: An ROTJ Proposition (BACK ON TRACK WITH EMANSWFAN AT THE HELM--SEE POST 1488 OR OP FOR A LINK!)
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I wouldn't dream to add many, if any, prequel trilogy themes into the OT. For me, that's kinda going too far. Maybe some background filler music, but not out right themes unless they're truly warented... Like...off the top of my head... instead of using the Ewok finale, they used that new age-ey music...but I wonder if something else might have been better...perhaps influeneced by the locations shown or something but thats ok...

 

If you wanted to see my HP cues, they're here:

 

Opening

http://youtu.be/SXux7ERa7sM

(Includes my new theme)

 

Next Scene

http://youtu.be/tphKtX1PN5E

 

Next Scene (alternate scoreing)

http://youtu.be/-CDxA5Ejn64

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#558293
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Collaborative Fanediting: An ROTJ Proposition (BACK ON TRACK WITH EMANSWFAN AT THE HELM--SEE POST 1488 OR OP FOR A LINK!)
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I was posting this last night when my computer crashed but I once had a ton of my alternate scorings on youtube but they started pulling star wars videos when the blu rays were released and so I had to pull about 20 videos (ugh)

 

I guess my thouight was, I'm very familiar with all the prequel scores and their sonic limitations, plus also the melodic and thematic material.

 

my thought was even a rough outline of the scenes and ideas would help create an idea of what is needed where, and based on that, I could compile what we have and find what we'd need. Most of my work could simply be stitching together cues which I'm rather proficient at (I'd hate to say it but the Ultimate Edition of Episode I was an amazing editing job albeit a horrible product).

That way I could kinda... create an idea of what we have and what we'd need...a rough idea at least... The new scenes might need to be fully scored too which would be kinda exciting for me lol but anyway

 

If it helps at all, I did my own score/theme for the final Harry Potter novel based on what I heard in my head... so it's not entirely an unknown idea to me.

 

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#558222
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Collaborative Fanediting: An ROTJ Proposition (BACK ON TRACK WITH EMANSWFAN AT THE HELM--SEE POST 1488 OR OP FOR A LINK!)
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I'm kinda new to the thread so I apologize if I can't answer that but it's an idea that's been circulating for a while. As for how to use it that's another story but its an interesting concept.

 

I was curious... is there a way to create a sort of...timeline...of ideas... of how you'd like (ideally) this ROTJ to edit to end up..I only ask becuase if I have a sense of timing, I might be able to develop some ideas for what music can go where and how .

 

I know it's early but it's just a thought.

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#558138
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Collaborative Fanediting: An ROTJ Proposition (BACK ON TRACK WITH EMANSWFAN AT THE HELM--SEE POST 1488 OR OP FOR A LINK!)
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The great thing about that opening sequence is that there is a lot of room for changes. Vader's Theme is only used to showcase his presence, but the rest is almost just filler based on the intervals of the theme ie: lots of places to play with the music or what have you heh

 

I may have to give it a try heh

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#558061
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Collaborative Fanediting: An ROTJ Proposition (BACK ON TRACK WITH EMANSWFAN AT THE HELM--SEE POST 1488 OR OP FOR A LINK!)
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Wow... I feel like I'm coming out of a Carbonite sleep lol

 

Sorry for my lateness to this party but I was brought attention to this project by a friend of mine who said you needed some composers.

 

If I may, I'd like to volunteer my efforts to that front and also to sound design/editing. I've worked on a fan film for Jurassic Park and actually have been DYING to work on a fan film of Star Wars and this is may as well be that heh...

 

I have a pretty extensive library of Star Wars SFX and if you're interested in hearing some of my Jurassic Park compositions, you can hear them here:

 

http://youtu.be/1QM6x1xy4ps

http://youtu.be/BkC_anDP5T0

 

I'm also familiar with video editing as I had produced a re-edit of the finale to Episode III (starting with Obi-Wan speaking to Padme through to the credits). Unfortunately, I had to remove the videos but perhaps you've seen them? 

 

I could try reupping them too if you'd like.

 

I'm also extremely familiar with the scores to the OT including ROTJ which is one of my favourites. I recreated an almost completely clean Lapti Nek (film version). So that may help lol

 

Anyway, I'd like to help if I can :-)

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#451666
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CAPRICA: The Resurrection!
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CAPRICA is such an amazing show. To describe it in singular words is simply diminishing the impact and the strength the show as a whole had.

 

You had a cast of characters who had strengths, quirks, and personalities that are firmly outlined in the series.  With each episode, we learn more about the characters.

 

For example: Daniel Graystone seemed like an ok dad in the pilot. The story progresses and we learn that he has a pension for working very hard. That he is a self built man. We learn how his love for his wife (and see as well) has truly made her a stronger woman and capable of being "normal."

 

Then we start to see the darker side of him. Because of his power, he feels he can do as he pleases and because of the success he's had in his company, he feels vindicated that his persistence and determination are what truly made it what it is today. He then uses that idea to convince himself he should do all he can to win: steal from Vergis corp the device he needs and then steal his company back from Vergis himself.

He will obviously stop at nothing. His coy lie about "having seen [Zoe's] drawings and getting them stuck in his mind," to then design a robot based on them is another sad ploy. I don't truly believe it.

 

Then we have his wife who is a "weak" woman. I say weak but she really isn't. I mourn the loss of this character the most as her evolution...watching her act... was perhaps the most easiest thing for me to do. She is so gifted. Her love for her husband and the loss of her brother seem to have been some of the largest things that shaped her. The amazing thing is that despite her weakness, she is strong. The problem with accepting one's strengths is also accepting one's darkness and she has feared this. The loss of a daughter she had no good relationship with broke her psyche. Not to mention her stint in a psychiatric ward was only ended by the strength of her husband and now that he's betrayed her by being a man she never imagined he could be...well... her life fell apart. 

She finds solace and strength in the guidance of Clarice who uses Amanda, but on some level, genuinely loves her. She finds that strength she had lost and begins to betray herself by spying on Clarice.

 

The strength of all the characters was so infinately fascinating to me. Each week we learned tidbits more of each...fleshing out the characters and their world. I mourn the loss of an entire civilization now. A great gap has been created in what we will know about the worlds of BSG and the great human drama seems to have simply been lost entirely.

 

If SyFy can't afford it, they should shop around.

 

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#450969
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CAPRICA: The Resurrection!
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The show is brilliant. it's so stylized but relevent and real feeling. The pacing is so slow but it's...comfortable... like real life. They don't want to rush it... it needs this sense of grace and... respect... and syfy never accepted that.

 

But we will get CAPRICA back... I'm addicted to twitter now watching Allisandra Torresani hehe... "momma cylon" as we call her. hehe

 

 

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#450963
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CAPRICA: The Resurrection!
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So, for any Sci-Fi fan, this came as a big blow. CAPRICA was announced as cancled. SyFy will air the next episode and hold the Final Four till 2011... 

 

Now love it or hate it, CAPRICA was well done. Treated like the bastard child, the show never got enough press, never did the runs on the talk shows and was treated like a poorly run machine when the opposite was true.

 

Slow to build, the show had to establish, firmly, a plethora of characters... all three dimentional...all strong and weak... all important. 

 

The first half of the season aired to 75% approval...and then blank... nothing... the show was on hiatus till 2011... when suddenly, from the ether... it returned... and began airing again, with little to no announcement.

 

Fans of the series were only just learning it was on when this week SyFy (in its intense wisdom) cancelled the show.

MIND YOU:

 

facebook/syfy has 166,000 followers.

facebook/Caprica has 101,000 ....

 

yea... and we're all pissed

 

I implore all of you to do this simple thing:

 

Call universal, ask to leave a message about the programming, and leave a message asking for the show to come back...and to get a second season. It was truly a gem... and was only gearing up to impress.

 

Call Universal:1-818-777-1000


 

Allisondra Toresani (Zoe Graystone-the first cylon) is leading a cause #SaveCaprica and we are sending apples to universal and syfy execs.

 

Please, love it or hate it, give the show a chance... at least call the number (we've already filled the voicemail box for syfy.com) and if you can, send an apple with the infinity symbol to Universal/SyFy headquarters. 

 

Mark SternExecutive VP Original Programming
NBC Universal – Sci Fi Channel
100 Universal City PlazaBldg. 1400, 14th Floor
Universal City, CA 91608 

Steve BurkeCEO of NBC/Universal
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112

 

EDIT:

We're even getting press now:

 

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/10/caprica-apples/

 

Follow "Zoe" and "Sam" on twitter too! they're mobilizing too!


 

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#449145
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Star Wars Prequels/Original Trilogy: The Complete Scores (Released)
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I had the good fortune of knowing the guy who eas ripping every star wars game from just before episode one till recentlt. This meant i had acess to the raw rips, not the mp3 ones he upliaded for everyone else. I also studied every ounch of music from them to rebuild the score in the most complete fashion ever made. Not till GGCTuK came along did anyone try this again. But as for quality, disc 1 and 2 of episode one are very good quality. Disc three is less, and disc four is a mosh of liverecordings and such. Episode three is either clean lossless or dvd rip from the german dvd. But youll find no better till its released.