krausfadr said:
Moving the Falcon chess game to the end is a brilliant idea! Also the coolest transition is from Chewbacca yelling-- to Rey leaving the ship, but this clearly is not working. And another establishing shot is probably not the best way to fix it. The problem going on is there are no audio or visual cues telling us that they’ve landed. We’re watching them play chess on a ship that sounds like it’s cruising through space, then suddenly in the next scene Rey is walking off the ship.
In this rough clip I’ve started with a shot of the Falcon flying and later inside the ship added some sounds and movement giving cues that the Falcon landed:
https://youtu.be/-5iy3sz0e-o
That’s good, and helps sell it. I haven’t tried it yet, but I imagine this sequence:
The Resistance reunion scene quietly fades to black.
Cut to the Falcon in hyperspace, then to the interior as the chess game is going on.
After the line, “You’re 200 years older than us, of course you’re gonna be better at this,” cut to the Falcon flying over Jawas. (Or even a new FX shot of exiting hyperspace within a binary system, possibly borrowing or augmenting TPM footage.) The alert sound can be heard before the cut, signaling their approach toward their destination.
Rey exits the ship, does her ritual, changes her name, and heads back into the Falcon to ride off into the sunsets. (No footage exists, but it would have been good for Rey to make eye contact with the rest on her way over and be welcomed back inside.)