NeverarGreat

Maybe just because of the abomination posted by Duracell and whatever Han’s face is in that Sabacc pic.

TV’s Frink said:

NeverarGreat said:

NeverarGreat said:

It’s amazing how many commenters here respond in all seriousness to tongue-in-cheek suggestions.

(Forgive me, for I have Frinked)

I’ve always wanted to be a verb.

You shut your Frinkin’ mouth!

I look forward to seeing this 😃

That comparison is from the final render, version 8. I don’t think there’s a Vimeo link, just a Mega one: Star Destroyer over Maz’s Castle

^^Thanks for the input. I’m having difficulty in judging what’s good or bad with this scene in particular, since so much of our relationship with the Republic (audience and Resistance) is still up in the air at this point.

In other news, I know some people aren’t very happy with the stereo treatment of the Starkiller Destruction sequence, but lacking a 5.1 setup I’m unable to rectify the situation. Therefore, I thought that I would export each track of the scene separately as a mono wav so that it could be technically possible for someone with the correct setup to do a 5.1 mix.

https://mega.nz/#F!bZ0mFTjT!32f63DDvxmwjHpxcKHEo7w

I regret that it’s quite a mess, with 9 tracks in various states of disorganization. Being new to the process, I essentially threw SFX wherever they would go, so most of the tracks have explosion SFX at some point and the LFE channel doesn’t stay on the LFE track at all times.

I completely understand if nobody wants to tackle this, but at least now it’s out there if somebody wants to fix it up right. 😃

JEDIT @ Val:

I noticed the lack of clouds in the second Star Destroyer shot as well, but it’s like that in the original film. I suppose I could add some more clouds to the second shot…it’s something to consider.

As for the R2 scenes, it’s a delicate line between being too obvious and making the audience wonder why nobody noticed the blinking lights and making it too subtle and having people miss it. I opted for subtlety, since people bothered by the conveniences would probably be more observant anyway. My brother suggested a slow zoom in to the panel. That could work.

I also agree with you about the fanedit info, but it’s not a big deal for me either way.

As for the crawl, I still think the middle paragraph could use some work:

Episode VII
THE FORCE AWAKENS

Luke Skywalker has vanished. In his absence, the sinister FIRST ORDER has risen from the ashes of the fallen Empire, plotting it’s return to power.

Suspecting that the First Order has developed a terrifying new weapon, General Leia Organa withdraws from the timid New Republic to mobilize a covert RESISTANCE.

Desperate for Luke’s help, Leia has sent her most trusted pilot on a daring mission to Jakku, where a clue has been discovered as to the whereabouts of the Last Jedi…

^True 😃

NeverarGreat said:

It’s amazing how many commenters here respond in all seriousness to tongue-in-cheek suggestions.

(Forgive me, for I have Frinked)

TV’s Frink said:

Dek Rollins said:

Four stars out of four potential stars.

You are weird.

His system was perfectly lucid to me, but then again I’m also weird.

May the 4th be with us, every one!

Fair enough. I won’t let it bother me 😃

ray_afraid said:

Great news!
And is nobody gonna mention how awesome that new shot is???

NeverarGreat said:

And the image in that banner is tantalizing as well.

I was just thinking about an Anakin-centric edit of TPM that played as a children’s film, but thought ‘I’m sure someone has thought of that before, let’s check the backup data’. Lo and behold, there’s something possibly better.

Perhaps a crawl like this would do:

There’s trouble in the galaxy.
The Greedy Trader’s Guild is
invading the peaceful planet of
Naboo.

Along with human settlers, the
planet is home to a people called
the Gungans, who want nothing more
than to be left alone.

Only one Gungan stands between
the humans of Naboo and the evil
Trader army, and is about to run into
two stowaways fighting for peace in
the galaxy…

It then opens with the invasion and meeting of Jar Jar, and everything takes place much as it does in the theatrical version albeit with less plot detail until Coruscant. Once there, only the Anakin/Jar Jar scenes remain, so basically just Anakin in Padme’s quarters and some of his meeting with the council, followed by Jar Jar’s discussion with the Queen. Then they leave, have the final battle with much of the queen/Jedi bits excised, and end on the celebration as usual.

GASP! A RELEASE MONTH!!!

And the image in that banner is tantalizing as well.

As it is in Restructured right now, there’s an odd key shift in two places where the ‘Starkiller’ track has been inserted. As well, there’s no reaction from the Resistance, so here I’ve tried to remedy both issues:
https://vimeo.com/215916349
Password: leia
There’s still a discordant sound when Han falls into the pit, but it could be further tweaked.
Thoughts?

Yes, but there’s a difference between mystery and confusion/convenience. R2 randomly waking up at the end to give them the map was the latter, while the origin of Snoke (as much as I dislike him) is the former.

This is an odd case where the worldbuilding of Star Wars (hyperspace travel is a precise science) conflicts with the Star Wars ethos of ‘keep it simple and mysterious’. There’s also the matter of the villain’s plan. To take a villain seriously, their plan must make some amount of sense. Right now, Kylo’s plan seems nonexistent, because after he reads her mind, what then? Will he have to go into the map room and program planets and stars from his memory of her memory? Furthermore, if he was able to know in the forest that she’d seen the map, presumably he got a glimpse of it as well. What more would he need in the interrogation?

What would be ideal would be to have the chair read her brainwaves and generate a hologram of her memories that illuminates the darkened interrogation room.

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/youtubevimeoetc-star-wars-video-finds/id/11772/page/46#1072239

File this under miscellaneous ideas that may or may not ever be implemented, but there must be some device in the Star Wars universe which could accurately translate mental imagery into computer data. Why else would Kylo think that Rey was all he needed to assemble a working map to Luke? Traveling through hyperspace requires precise calculations, so any map generated from Rey’s recollections must be pretty damn accurate to be safe. And I assume that the ‘final piece’ of the map isn’t in the archives of the empire, otherwise Kylo would have said so and R2 would have it in his backup data, so it’s not a simple matter of seeing the final planet on the red dotted line.

What would such a device look like? Well, perhaps there’s some sort of headgear involved on Kylo’s part, or perhaps the overcomplicated torture chair has this ability. Some lights shining onto the sides of Rey’s head would be sufficient for establishing that the contents of her mind are being read by computer. It certainly doesn’t need to be as complicated as this:

Thoughts? Am I overthinking this? I tend to do that.

flametitan said:

I read it as never rar, as if you had something against the RAR compression format.

I hadn’t considered that. It’s prophetic, since my father was killed by an overcompressed RAR.

Interesting idea. You’ve gotten me thinking about the sort of show I’d like to see…

I imagine a show about a group of biologists/archaeologists who went to an alien world to study a long dead civilization, and were eventually stranded there. The show focuses on them and their families, who have been living among the ruins of this once-vast civilization for untold generations, fending off attacks by strange yet intelligent creatures from neighboring planets in the system, and attempting to find a way back to the Old Republic.

One of the big mysteries of the show is how long they’ve been stranded, since they were stranded centuries before the Empire or New Republic. The tone is very much a Flash Gordon serial with a greater emphasis on alien science and the magic of the Force. Everything remains used-universe, such as the remaining supplies of the humans, but the alien worlds contain vast, Akira-esque spaces and strange technology.

I justified it to be a self-deprecating way of getting across that my ideas/edits/color corrections/witticisms never are great - they’re at best pretty good.

Okay, here it is:

https://mega.nz/#!nANTQIyA!GIPUDnr6LBjarR0PegKZ7j-kQqIvTX5E1N1R6fDDsZY

I’m pretty happy with it now. 😃

^Love it. Interesting that they used the 2011 Blu-ray except for Han shooting first, for which they used Despecialized.

^Exactly 😃 I rather hoped that the strength of that idea overcame the deficiency of its execution, but I see that more work is needed.

Hal 9000 said:

NeverarGreat said:

Snoke: "…the new Jedi will rise."
Kylo: "And FN-2187?.."
Hux: "Supreme Leader, I take full responsibility…"
Snoke: "GENERAL! Our strategy must now change."
Hux: “The weapon is ready. The time has come to use it…”

If your edit, based on TFA:Restructured, moves the SKB plot around, would such a conversation be appropriate for the first Snoke scene? As it is, the weapon isn’t brought up until the second Snoke scene.

I had forgotten that. Restructured makes sense in this regard, but since I’m moving the first Snoke scene to just after Leia’s introduction, Snoke’s dialogue about the droid being taken to the Resistance implies that he knows all about Kylo’s new plans for Rey. And since he knows about that, Hux’s appearance in the second Snoke scene is cut, leaving no place for Starkiller talk.

Some of this was said earlier, but I prefer this order because it:

1. Makes Snoke into a more informed, competent villain
2. preserves the Kylo revelation until as late as possible
3. Makes sense of Hux and Kylo’s movements, since they should have been tracking the Falcon instead of hanging out at the base

It seems very clear that the PT fighters were stupidly small for astromechs. Why didn’t they just make the fighters larger?

Starless Starkiller Firing

JEDIT: version 2: https://mega.nz/#!nANTQIyA!GIPUDnr6LBjarR0PegKZ7j-kQqIvTX5E1N1R6fDDsZY

In tangentially related thoughts, I just realized that Hux’s hand was forced with the defection of Finn - he had to use the weapon before the Republic evacuated the Hosnian system. I wish this was better explained in the film. If during the first Snoke scene Kylo mentioned the defection of FN-2187, it would better explain Snoke’s freakout:

Snoke: "…the new Jedi will rise."
Kylo: "And FN-2187?.."
Hux: "Supreme Leader, I take full responsibility…"
Snoke: "GENERAL! Our strategy must now change."
Hux: “The weapon is ready. The time has come to use it…”