Hal 9000

You know what? Nevermind, because it’s not even true. Not true at all. Just nevermind, and forget all about it.

JEDIT:

Anyone know how to format, in pretty much any application, justified text so that the increased spacing is in between words rather than letters within words?
The Star Wars crawls keep the kerning within words consistent, and spaces out the words in order to achieve justified text. I can’t seem to figure out how to replicate this, and can only justify the normal way with letters spaced out rather than words.
Thanks in advance.

Missing PSYCHO_DAYV, are we?

He’s got ahold of you, despite how it seems. Accept yourself as He does and go from there. Praying for your academic efforts, that the unhelpful weight holding you down can be shrugged off.

Yeah, probably so. Also, does it make sense for SKB to explode into a star since in this proposed version it would have already discharged its stellar energy?

Was scanning over the movie, and noticed something I hadn’t before. When Finn first meets Leia, Poe references the weapon “that destroyed the Hosnian system.”
In order to remove the line, the scene has to look like this, with a non-ideal succession of three quick shots.
https://vimeo.com/166130938

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Stumbled onto this on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThlaSITXROk

Someone was going to be working on isolating score from the films. Was that you, Smithers? This scene would be a good first one to do, since it’d be good to keep the foley even if the music gets changed.

And here’s an update draft. I do like it better this way, keeping the original flow of that section more similar to the original. Not too bad.
https://vimeo.com/165767941

That’s not a bad idea, moving the Finn and Han scene to earlier. I’ll give that a shot later, hopefully today.

And the “it’s” comes from the scene where Han and Chewie tractor the Falcon aboard their larger freighter, and Finn looks through the cockpit.

poita said:

Star Wars Sample: https://we.tl/VEyCxemjLh

Empire Sample: https://we.tl/verwNofxYa

Jedi Sample: https://we.tl/YjCgGTEZUG

Holy shit!

Here’s an updated draft of the scene, still missing visual FX. TIE engine noise has been added, and Finn says “It’s” in true Monty Python fashion.

JEDIT: https://vimeo.com/165689455

My hope for the film at this point is that they hold to their statement that it won’t be an origin story. I’d rather see it just be a standalone adventure with Han and Chewie, ala At Stars End.

The mockup was super quick and dirty, for sure. The point is that I don’t think it feels right to cut the shot of Finn running up to Han in two. If Finn could be made to say “it’s,” maybe the audience will think he’s basically saying, “Now they’ve really done it.” And ideally there’d be toned down music that isn’t so dramatic, perhaps looped music from Rey’s scene we cut away from, or maybe just a quieter version of what’s already there.

I do, too. I didn’t even upload a clip of the same thing but without Finn’s line about the FO because it’s choppy.
If having a brief awkward phrase is the worst of the damage, I say it’s worth it.
Takes care of the issue of Hosnian Prime’s destruction being visible instantly from another solar system, never raises the awkward questions about SKB’s renewability, makes the SKB subplot a less precise recapitulation of ANH, and feels more emotionally organic for the plot. I firmly believe this would have been a far greater choice had it been decided during the making of the movie, and I’m leaning toward it being pulled off by fan editors to my standards of fooling a sharp hypothetical first time theater audience.

JEDIT: Also, and I’ll have to give it a looksee, I wonder if some of the X-wing pilots’ chipper attitudes should be toned down since they ultimately failed to stop the FO from destroying their capital in this version. I’m looking at Porkins Jr. after the Falcon takes off.

^Here’s how that idea looks:
https://vimeo.com/165660408

I’m not sure that’s going to fly. We may have to ask ourselves whether having Finn say, “They’ve done it,” makes sense in this new context.

Once the visual effects are done of TIEs coming in from the distance for Finn and Han’s reaction shots, I’ll need ideas for how to mess with Finn’s dialogue. I’ve gone over the film and don’t hear anything suitable to replace, “They’ve done it.”

Love it. 10/10
That being said, I don’t know what the hell this is all about.

Well, if he asks, “Where’s Rey?” then I think it’d be strange not to cut back to Rey. At most it’d be just a final shot as she runs away.
And nobody is fleeing, just staring at the sky. I’m not sure it’d work very well. But, hey, I’ll give it a shot with a mockup.

In case anyone could be prompted to come up with genius ideas, the weak point in my proposal is still Finn’s change of heart and return to Maz’s castle. As it stands, minus FX work, he sees the TIEs approaching, and then we next see him in the basement. Missing is some sort of telegraphing that he wants to head back.

At the beginning, Kylo Ren could begin speaking first, only to have Poe interrupt him with, “I talk first.”

TV’s Frink said:

I was going to suggest people who joined on 7-Mar-2013.

2003 or GTFO

😛

The first part of this video might be a good source for Threepio’s storytime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThGdJ9kfUw4

He was after the footage with my grading applied, which I sent to him via PM. The care package has it free of color correction.