Sounds great! I’d also be interested in his reaction to ESB, if he’s really into his sister as you say. 😛
I seem to remember JJ Abrams commenting that the subset TIE shot makes no sense, but he liked it and used it anyway.
Very good. Seems the sole Star Destroyer in the sky using the existing film edit with new music will be our ace in the hole.
Yeah, I’m open to persuasion for removing “they’re here,” but I don’t see it as a necessary problem.
It’s true this edit is narrowly focused, but I don’t mind discussion of scenes and dialogue closely related. There was some discussion a while back about whether to remove, “Those beasts,” or, “They’re here.” I think the idea was removing, “They’re here,” avoids having it look like no one told Maz about the impending attack.
I really like both approaches, but I think the lone Star Destroyer makes more sense.
Star Destroyer appears. Finn returns to Han out of concern for Rey. Rey tries to send BB-8 back, and spots TIEs. Apocalypse Now shot. Maz hands off the saber, sans “they’re here.”
In the end, its very similar to V1, without the TIEs. Just need to implement new music, though.
But, I’m very happy to let both approaches receive R&D, and see which seems most effective.
Are you suggesting offscreen dialogue from the brown alien would explain why Finn turns around? I don’t get it.
I like the Star Destroyer in the sky on its own. The patrons are surprised more than afraid, not being used to seeing such things in their day and age. The TIEs approach from another angle, with Rey still being the first to see them.
Carrie’s hair is different in the deleted scene. 😦
This seems like an elegant solution to several small problems.
Oh, that’s incredible. You’re a wonderful group. After I put out V1, I sat at my computer hoping, "Won’t someone please make this better?"
And, Sir Ridley, though it’s a cliche comment at this point, “we will watch your career with great interest.”
Go for it. In the theatrical cut it made sense to have the down beat in between the Starkiller strike and the TIE fighter attack, but not here.
That’s a damn good point.
It’s acceptable at present, and it would take what seems like an inordinate amount of work to ask someone to improve upon it.
As it is, the second scene with Snoke involves several shots from the first scene which shows Kylo in his mask. During the couple shots we see him from the front, his face has been pasted over the mask. But, the remaining shots show his hood rather than his hair. We also see Snoke sit down without seeing him ever stand up. Once I get my TFA stuff back out and on the metaphorical workbench, I’ll see if I can’t fix this through editing. (Although, if I could have already, I’m sure I would have; can’t remember exactly.)
No, I didn’t. IMHO, they were hokey and unconvincing.
That’s great! I wonder if it might be more effective to cut to underground rather than side wipe. And I’d be fine with moving the TIE sunset shot to earlier in the film as a few others have done, if it’s better for this problematic sequence to remove it.
The new Boyega line works surprisingly well. Not perfect, but close.
I think the music you’ve put in is a big mistake though, as that exact music is used minutes later in that exact scene.
If the new music seems perfect and irreplaceable, we could probably replace it’s later appearance pretty easily.
Once we’ve gotten that clip into shape pretty much how we all like it, I would request an uncompressed output of your work without the TIE sound effects. This WILL address a major sticking point in V1, and I thank you again for the stellar contribution!
I adore that. Gorgeous work!
Well, there’s going to be an entire V2, with the solutions for given problems that seem best out of what we collectively come up with. If there’s something that can go two ways that’s audio only and doesn’t affect sync, an alternate audio track could be a thing.
Nostalgic.
I was hoping some additional brilliant people would come out of the woodwork. I’m really looking forward to a V2 we can be very happy with.
It’d be awesome if there were some way to telegraph that SKB is designed to suck up its local star and just use its energy to target one or more targets. Like maybe it’s a one-shot thing, or one suck up and it can keep using small portions as it goes. That would work well with Finn’s description of it using “the Sun,” and the star that bursts out of it at the end from the remaining energy. This could be background murmuring at the Resistance base or on SKB. I haven’t come up with anything, but it’s another opportunity.
Yeah, that sounds pretty great. I’m looking forward to seeing it, and appreciate you joining the forum and contributing. Welcome!
I won’t be doing anything that radical with this simple, concentrated edit on the SKB restructuring. But, the finished edit could easily be used as source material for one that implements any of these other ideas.
Ditto.
Just checked it out, and it might have context since Leia just came from the site of a FO attack, and no one seems to know the Starkiller’s specific target until it fires.
Can anyone remove the time code, though?