Hal 9000

You know who it’d be awesome to get to record something for the 3PO red eye scene, if we go they route?

The guy who voices Creepio for the Auralnauts. I have zero clue whether they’d be interested in doing so, and imagine likely not. I am not sure how a rando would quickly be able to convince them that this isn’t one of “those” fan edit projects. Probably a pipe dream.

Don’t have much to say but I recently watched a few episodes and appreciate having this series, WIP though it be.

Nice!

Oh, good, I assumed that little bit wasn’t on the soundtrack. Thanks!

Also, given what Dat_SW_Guy has been up to, I sketched out how I’d revise the entrance into Mos Eisley:

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“We must be cautious.”

Wipe transition, OOT music sourced from OST. Musical sync isn’t important, as long as there’s enough to cover, because the establishing shot will unavoidably be longer than the original version.

2019 establishing shot with speeder approaching from behind. Rats removed.

The shot of people walking around (SE background but no Jawa or ronto elements; essentially the original version with SE backdrop)

Heroes approach checkpoint. OOT imagery, with no ronto in background or floating sentry droid.

After checkpoint, either include SE long shot to pull back and get a better view and the ronto as the speeder pulls up to the cantina and parks, or else include neither.

SE for the remainder of the scene, with animated dewback at the entrance. Add a quiet lead-in to the cantina band music, as a nod to the '77 mono mix.

Does anyone know where one could find the original music for the entrance into Mos Eisley. The SE uses ‘Diamond,’ but the original version had a short little bumpy piece of music during the approach to the trooper checkpoint.

Do you know whether you’ll comp in the SE Death Star for the shot in which it explodes? I recall trying to use the theatrical explosion and finding that the original model doesn’t jive with the surrounding SE shots. There’s a few frames of static model and then a frame or two in which it gives way to the explosion. I would expect it to be doable by someone in the know.

I always ended up with a Raichu on my team. I like that little guy.

That’s what I’m thinking too, so I’ll mock that up whenever I get the clip how Nev is happy with.

I still think this might work best as a replacement for the prior castle shot rather than taking up the time of all three shots. It’s good, but its compromises are more noticeable when we have several seconds to see it play out. I’d think if we baked it into the existing three-shot structure and comped in three TIEs, we’d be all set up.

Or maybe use it to replace the first two shots. Could go for two shots’ worth of Nev’s clip, then the TIEs over forest.

Looks great to me!

oojason said:

That’s okay, Oobi-Doo Benubie - we were all a little different back then 😉

Another 1000 posts and you’ll be a ‘Jedi Spirit’ in old money / OT rankings!
 

Ah, sweet!

Thanks, everyone, for celebrating this arbitrary milestone. 😃

I only ask that no one read anything I posted before 2005. I was… just super weird and maladjusted.

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DominicCobb said:

Who was it that did the little purple/blue flash in the saber? Is that available to grab?

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lol omg, I didn’t even think of that. So glad I didn’t miss my chance to say that, with this post, my count is…

The day has finally arrived. I’ve been a regular around here since 2003, and my involvement in this internet community is second to none. Something about the jigsaw puzzle that is Star Wars compressed us into a haven that attracts creativity born out of a sense of need.

Thanks to all of you for the continual space to come day after day and work on things together. Times have changed. We once were passing around DVDs of LaserDisc rips, comparing combing artifacts. Hell, ESB Despecialized 1.0 was a decade ago. We’ve all aged a good 18 years since then. Some of the smart people around here weren’t even born at that point. That’s pretty crazy to weigh out. Members have come and gone. I’ve tried to stay out of drama, and there are those I miss, though fortunately FE.org has retained many of them.

With this 9000th post that doesn’t mean anything other than a high number that happens to match my username, I want to acknowledge my enduring fondness and appreciation for this forum and what it’s meant to me for a rather long time.

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/9000th-Post/id/86444

Just so weird there was such a buzz over… literally nothing.

That… works pretty well, just harmonized voices saying one thing together. Seems very ROTS.

I agree, Burbin, about the scene keeping Palptine in our consciousness, especially given the removal of “blow up a planet they like” with Pryde.

I don’t know what any of that means.

I think that’d be pretty abrupt. That scene has two good places to be but can’t be in both.

That’s an interesting approach, and I could see that working very well for that chunk of the movie. My only concern for the moment is that we’d have to do something with the transition between Rey and Finn’s conversation about her vision to BB8 stumbling onto D0, as V1 has the establishing shot of the Falcon being towed and then the Palpatine-Kylo conversation. I wouldn’t been keen on reinstating the “Chewie’s alive” spoiler scene.

I can’t even keep track anymore, but I think originally Kylo says he “knows where she’s going” as she goes to ~Endor, but I don’t think it’s ever explained how.

The film is black and white until the moment we cut to inside the Mos Eisley cantina.

I’d hate to lose that forest shot from poppasketti but we’ll see whatever works best. Thanks, Nev!