I still feel like Rey’s reaction to her lightsaber at that one point in the fight is simply too perfect to pass up. Would you be using that clip you sent plus other the other adjustments that were suggested?
MR, do you plan to add Rey’s saber crapping out on her at the end of the DSII duel? If so, that seems like a natural buildup to this moment. Also, have you done an audio component to this change?
Right, it shouldn’t spark IMO at the DSII duel.
Well now I’m just confused what you want Hal, lol. Ultimately I agree though that it would save a lot of time and effort to simply incorporate MR’s latest work and forget about the whole DSII ordeal.
EDIT: Oops, realized what you might have meant. Are you suggesting that it simply shouldn’t spark but still short out on her? If so, I suppose that works as well.
Yup, that’s what we’re going for Antonio 😃 I believe the twin suns at the end of the movie are also supposed to be rising instead of setting.
And I’m going to be honest, I literally never noticed the two colors that appeared as Rey was igniting her lightsaber. Would be cool to change it to blue and purple though!
#5 with the noise hum is pretty good for a saber that is flickering in and out I’d imagine. Really goes all in on a sound you’d expect from a lightsaber malfunctioning.
@jarjar - I made a bunch of crackle saber type sounds a few weeks back.
They might be useless, but give them a checkhttps://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1kO74VSZ_67MyuOdjI8Hpa3BJeSTawSpz
Currently useless, but only because it appears I don’t have access lol
Oh I hadn’t considered that. Good idea. If it’s flickering then at least theoretically you would only have to mask it out every other frame or so, thus resulting in half the work.
Sound design is absolutely key here. I might dig into the Kylo Ren lightsaber sound archive to see what is there that could be useful.
Yeah that’s I recommended only having the lightsaber fully shut down (masked out) in that brief shot of Kylo attacking her.
As for the malfunction effect, sparks around the handle could definitely help. Feel free to go crazy with whatever effects the actual blade does, though. I would personally do a half ignite with an ever crazier crackle effect.
It would only have to malfunction in that one portion as an indicator that the entire thing is about to collapse.
Alright, here’s what I’m thinking. Rey’s lightsaber should begin to flicker out at this point right here:
Makes sense because she is staring at it like something is wrong with it.
Then, all somebody would have to do is have it completely turn off in the following brief shot:
Thus why she screams when Kylo is about to strike her down, she knows she is defenseless.
Very neat! I don’t quite remember - was this something Hal was interested in as well? Looks very professional. Imo no reason why it shouldn’t be included if you’re alright with it.
^ And Jar Jar, that’s the sort of thing I was trying to mitigate by lowering the opacity. It was more obvious where the feathered mask was in the clip straight from Nev.
Oh ok. I just feel like it’s kinda obvious still, no offense. It’s fine everywhere else, just not in that one shot.
I still think a little of the coloring looks off. It’s really dark at the beginning, then the sky has a green hue in the right corner behind Rey, then goes back to being dark. The shot of the burning TIE has it almost looking pitch black around it but Rey and the Porgs are lit up. I love the idea and the hard work but I don’t think it 100% there just yet.
I also feel like there are some strange visuals around Luke specifically at this point below:
Some of it appears when he is laying on the log as well.
I’ll come up with something that you like someday, Hal. lol
I just find the notion of selling your kid into endless slavery as a means of protection to be a really problematic concept to take seriously, especially when it’s so quickly brushed over with just a single line and a rushed flashback.
I don’t believe that was ever meant to be a permanent arrangement. Pretty sure their intentions were to leave her there for a year to a couple years until this Sith assassin stops chasing them down so aggressively. At that point they would have come back for her, but of course they got murdered.
Reverb is a nice idea.
Although the implication I was going for is that he tells her that when he comes closer, it’s only because this is a movie that we hear the line earlier.
It would be nice to have Luke say that as Rey looks at the X-Wing. Could work as a little foreshadowing.
Exactly what I thought!
He would basically be saying that him and Leia will always be with her as she leaves for Exegol. It’s a much better final line for him to say to her than “You have everything you need”, and makes Rey’s calling out make even more sense later on.
Edit this into the ending of TROS:
https://www.tiktok.com/@izzydjarin/video/6937393917159640325
Oh, it’s perfect.
I do have a couple ideas left, Sherlock.
First, have you seen the following audio work Hal? https://youtu.be/B3tP9gaUmnQ
I know we put a couple custom lines in for this (namely Leia), but these audio lines are SIGNIFICANTLY clearer thanks to whatever this guy did.
Second, Luke says “We’ll always be with you” very clearly in the following trailer: https://youtu.be/4VuAMFJeeJQ?t=84
The line never appears in the film as far as I’m aware. If anybody has any ideas where it could appear, feel free to share.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you lol
If you read it you will be unable to unsee it so…
look at Rey’s feet in the wide shot of Rey running. First, the lightsaber is discolored as red. Second, she is kinda floating since her feet don’t actually touch the ground.
I love how the video you sent him was created as a joke haha.
There are definitely some methods to making the saga more unified, but I feel like more subtle approaches are often better over entirely new scenes, especially for the originals.
I think it’s a nice scene overall, but as I stated a couple pages ago, it would suck to have yet another anti-climactic moment in a movie that is already full to the brim with them. And that scene in particular had a huge buildup which comes to a crashing halt in the name of a joke.
There is also the problem of missing visual effects that appear when Rey is running. This makes me wonder if it would be possible to remove that portion of the scene. That way, there aren’t missing visual effects and it doesn’t build up suspense for as long. I would personally be more interested in the scene then.
Regardless, this is probably best reserved for a TLJ thread.
Looks like I missed quite a bit here!
I’m fine with not using the line we created. At least we were able to test out what it would sound like if it were inserted.
I’m glad Hal is sticking with fear keeping him there. My understanding of it is that he was afraid of talking to his sister after what he did to her son. He was also afraid that the galaxy’s expectations of him were too great and that he would end up failing again. Both are definitely fear based.
I’ll just post it here for everyone (makes things easier):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZM5TkD7gTkGMap9tzLd1-1NsvSsIlw2F/view?usp=sharing
It’s hard to imagine getting it to sound like it should. I’m not sure how to describe what I mean. It sounds like he’s reading from a list. “Lesson two, lesson three, lesson four…”
Funny, that’s actually what I was going for Hal lol.
He is supposed to be ripping off what his thing in TLJ was all about, while still tying it to what he’s trying to teach her.
Alright here that is:
If this doesn’t sound natural then this probably isn’t going to work anywhere else.