Any chance of getting in on this? I've been watching the "Star Wars Begins" fanedit documentary and it's regenerating my love of the originals and I'd love to see the efforts put into these if possible.
Thanks. :)
To do all the pan 'n scanning?
Garage sales or libraries are probably best close to home without resorting to having someone mail one...though that's also possible.
I could do it, though with my limited computer power to actually pan and scan certain shots (in Sony Vegas) could take a long time to do.
If anyone wants to recreate the widescreen look of Return of The Jedi on VHS, it would require adding extra space to the bottom black border, since they felt the extra space was needed for the alien subtitles for that but not for Star Wars!
That would be pretty easy to do. I have my VHS tapes nearby, as well as the widescreen versions.
Awesome.
My PS3 is hungry for this since I fed it the HD trailer for this!
I'm sure this has been discussed at some point in this thread but 579 pages is a LOT of reading so....
Since these clips and the final trailer were all encoded in 720p HD, is that an indicator of what the final film will be encoded in as well in addition to a standard DVD release?
Darth Chronus said:
Oh and a little off the point here - there was a guy in The Dark Knight who pointed out the most obvious things too (the cop that was with the 'undercover' Lt. Gordon). I wonder who played him. Hmmmm.....
Ric's probably his ancestor from a galaxy far away, lol :D
You mean Nicky Katt?
After looking at the revised list of what will be changed, this one:
8. Fixing vaders "wobbly" helmet when on the gantry
isn't all that necessary because it makes sense that it moves a little:
When Vader fell off the platform, his helmet is clearly bent and crooked when he returns to throw objects at Luke. It wouldn't really be a fix to stop it from moving in the high winds during that scene.
Looks like much has happened here in the last several months. I have a LOT of catching up to do on the status of what's been done. A lot of pages to read here. That Star Destroyer comparison is phenomenal! (another adjective) ;)
I'm just a fan of what's been done and look forward to the surprises in store, in terms of how new and improved everything is. An observer, an audience member. Once "The Dark Knight" anticipation was in full swing back in June/July I had to go far, far away (oh how I loves that film...) and live entirely within that world for a while.
GoodMusician said:
What I've learned through studying film music is that there are maybe 3 ways of going about composing the music.
2) To create a sort of "looney tunes" version. What I mean by that is in Looney Tunes, when someone hits someone over the head or falls off a cliff, the music notates this. Jerry Goldsmith was VERY much prolific in this sense (He even did the Looney Tunes Films lol). Cuts in the film are hightened by a change in music or a change in pace... explosions are notated with cymbol crashes...etc.
There's an actual term for that style of scoring. Funny enough, it's called "Mickey Mousing". Very close example with the Looney Tunes. :)
I don't know if this has been covered before, but with the color correction and effects enhancements, are they done in chronological order, or grouped together by doing all Hoth scenes, all space scenes, all Bespin scenes and so on?
Continuing to be amazed by all I've seen so far...
I agree fully with the use of the replacement cue for the opening, as it's more sinister and subtle. The original wasn't right for establishing the darker, more serious mood the film intended to be.
The scoring process is all trial and error, as a film can take on a whole new personality with music applied to it. It can literally make or break a film's tone, turn it from a serious story and world you believe into just a 'movie' and a lot of the time revisions are made to get the right mood, the right atmosphere.