Hal 9000

Maybe just add a CRT with ESB playing to the background of the Jakku part.

I’m not sure I see the point in doing that.

Just to work them in somehow?

There was another ROTS edit that added music to that scene using a SW video game, but I don’t remember which. I do know it was listed in the changelog on IFDB, if you want to search for it.

Goof Troop is pretty good.

I can add the TIE sound coming in softly at the tail end of the lava shot but I don’t want it to draw your attention.

I see the lava shot as similar to a shot in ROTS of an eruption (the one from the trailer). It’s super brief and may not be immediately connected to the location where the characters are. It just sets the environment very quickly.

That’s an interesting and plausible idea, that it wasn’t meant to be Mustafar initially. Even though the castle shot uses Rogue One footage, I think these three shots form a natural progression: Lava as we expect from the planet, Vader’s castle with lava in the background, and a shot of a scorched forest that blends well with the castle shot.

Now that the music has been addressed, I’m liking the three shot version. There’s a little drum sting when we cut to the lava shot that I put there but you can barely hear it, though it felt wrong to boost it to the point that it was audible. Regardless, this feels pretty good to me on the whole.

The Rumination scene has two lines of voiceover.

^sherlock, what pan do you speak of? You mean you’d like to hear TIEs during the lava shot?

Here’s a tweaked version of the 3-shot option. I brought the highlights toward orange and lowered them slightly to get the smoke to match the forest shot more or less, and finessed the added music to remove the double-sting. I was able to loop the drum beat that repeats twice, so that was lucky.

https://vimeo.com/529875645

^Ooooof.

I agree. I prefer either the 2 or 3 shot version over this alternate one. Leaning toward the 3 shot version, so I will try to get the music during that shot to be better; at present it sort of repeats what happened a second or two prior.

Here’s the ‘Burbin’ version to consider, too: https://vimeo.com/529837651

Thanks for that reality check. I’ll mock up Burbin’s idea too, walk away, and come back fresh to compare and see what feels best.

^Good point. The geography is sort of muddled by the three-shot mockup if you ask me.

I think this little moment is funnier without the skit for context:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy7wQ1Hzm4k

Burbin said:

So I think the best sequence might be to only have the other two shots: TIEs flying towards red lava planet > Establishing shot of the planets surface, revealing a forest growing amidst the lava > The TIEs, now descended to the surface, fly over the forest > cut to Kylo on the surface of said forest.

This would be worth mocking up as well. I’ll see about it, possibly tonight. I like all three of these shots, it’s just a question of whether they work best with all three or some combination of two.

I feel like the castle shot flows into the forest shot very naturally, and I’d hate to break that up. I can’t help but feel the lava shot would feel like an insertion.

Just to have them both together to compare…

Two shot version: https://vimeo.com/506231329

Three shot version:
https://vimeo.com/529620485

I mocked up the scene with the added shot as posted above, fully implementing it and doing audio in order to assess whether it really works that way.

I would say that I wouldn’t worry at all about catering to the viewer’s expectations for Mustafar, and just make sure that it’s consistent within this movie.

With that in mind, if we can only have two shots I’d lean toward the castle and the forest with TIEs. Either this new shot fits as a dramatic establishing shot before getting into the transition into the action or it feels too out of place. I think the timing of the music is slightly more favorable with just the two shots, also, but not to the point of precluding using it if it works.

For your consideration:

https://vimeo.com/529620485

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Like he’s lightning-incontinent?

Originally for the Rey Nobody version, as it reads to me as put there in order to connect to Rey’s use of lightning in order to imply a connection. But I figured it wasn’t necessary and the Fx was done so why not include it for both versions.

Make Holdo’s hair constantly rotate between colors like a fiberoptic Christmas tree.

And then zombie-mecha-Hitler returns mysteriously.