NeverarGreat

I’m sure nobody wants to hear more about the weaknesses of TFA, so I’ll just leave it at agree to disagree.

😃

TV’s Frink said:

NeverarGreat said:

joefavs said:

Jesus Christ, get a new joke already.

I’ll admit that the joke was coarse and rough and it is everywhere, but can’t it can’t get even one good-natured ribbing from me?

One?

I can see there’s no fooling you, Frink. Yes, I did make a similar observation over a month ago, and certainly more before that, but my memory was damaged and I’m stranded here until Rian can repair this ship.

I don’t envy the task Rian has undertaken. My friends and I often write pass-around stories among the 5 or 6 of us (I have been told that normal people engage in other activities), and it feels like being handed an entry that the previous author didn’t establish well or know how to end. You kind of stumble around re-establishing the scene while also trying to do your own thing, and it doesn’t often end well. I bet Rian does a good job of it regardless.

I would probably start the film after a crawl explaining the state of the galaxy with a pan down to a planet which has now been bestowed with the honor of being the new Republic capital. There’s an address from some low-level bureaucrat who is now acting chancellor, then Leia bursts in all solemn business. Who knows. As has been suggested, I wouldn’t return to Luke and Rey until the second scene at earliest.

^That would certainly be a first for a Star Wars movie, but according to the already available video, it looks like we’re going to get a flashback scene.

The comparison video is good, overall the correction is an improvement 😃 One suggestion - C-3PO looks a bit too green in your version, I think somewhere between that and the grindhouse would be ideal. I remember having to specifically increase the saturation of the yellows in my original LUT in addition to shifting the hue in order to get the golden droid back to being golden.

I’ve spent a long time figuring out exactly what’s wrong with the Blu-ray, which has clipped highlights among other issues. One of the most interesting discoveries is that the highlight data isn’t gone, it just isn’t displayed due to a a blu-ray encoding error. Any attempt to re-encode the movie before editing it will erase this data, so I import the raw stream into Premiere and rescue the highlights with a curves adjustment, which only works because it uses the native YUV stream instead of converting it to RGB like most effects.

TL;DR: Dre’s has clipped highlights, mine does not.

joefavs said:

Jesus Christ, get a new joke already.

I’ll admit that the joke was coarse and rough and it is everywhere, but can’t it get even one good-natured ribbing from me?

SA(N)D!

It is a dark time for the
Resistance. Although the
Starkiller has been destroyed,
First Order troops have driven the
Resistance forces from their hidden
base and pursued them across
the galaxy.

Evading the dreaded First Order
Starfleet, a group of freedom
fighters led by Leia Organa
has established a new secret
base on the remote lava world
of Hot.

The evil lord Kylo Ren,
obsessed with finding young
Rey Skywalker, has dispatched
thousands of remote probes into
the far reaches of space. . . .

I like it 😃

Octorox said:

If the Kor Sella scene is reinserted, I do think we should keep the shots on Hosnian Prime, only to give that thread closure.

My thought as well.

DuracellEnergizer said:

TV’s Frink said:

92.6% of posts by a certain few members are rehashes.

And “rehash” is the new “George raped my childhood.”

“Disney rehashed my childhood.”

Actually true and not an exaggeration.

Please clap.

The crawl is much improved from the original, excellent job! I think fractured works well enough. It’s also interesting how close some of the wording is to my old rewrite from the Scriptwriting Thread:

Luke Skywalker, the last Jedi, has vanished.
In his absence, the sinister FIRST ORDER
has risen from the ashes of the fallen Empire.

To counter this deadly threat, the Republic
mobilizes a covert RESISTANCE led by
General Leia Organa, to gather allies from
the farthest reaches of the galaxy.

As the FIRST ORDER prepares a crippling
blow to the Republic, its dark forces gather
above the graveyard planet of Jakku…

I think everyone in the press is talking about the crowd size because they know that Trump has such a thin skin that he will immediately retaliate - and of course he did. That would allow them to point and laugh at how he couldn’t even address the CIA without going on a tangent about the crowd size. The best part of it is, all they need to do is throw facts at him and his team will tie themselves in knots trying to justify it and inventing ‘Alternate Facts’. It’s a shitshow.

Octorox said:

NeverarGreat said:

Here’s a new version with the lightsaber shot. 😃

https://vimeo.com/200702407
Password: music

I like this but has a Star Wars film ever completely cut out foley audio like this? Even the “musical montage” sequences usually have some sound effects, they’re just lowered in the mix.

Oh I’m not thinking this is final, it’s just to show how it could be cut to include the entire theme. Hopefully someone who knows sound will like it and do a foley version, though I think it would be nice to have quieter sound effects in much of the sequence.

That example may not be appropriate…

Also, I don’t see how helpful it would be if it doesn’t have mouseover comparisons.

Here’s a new version with the lightsaber shot. 😃

https://vimeo.com/200702407
Password: music

DominicCobb said:

Devil’s advocate: it’s a silly sign, but it’s also supposed to be a joke. And, like most jokes, there’s some truth behind the intent. Which is to say, obviously women have far more rights than guns (don’t think anyone doesn’t literally think that), what they’re trying to say is that they wish protecting women’s rights were as important to politicians as protecting “gun’s rights” (preventing gun control).

That is how I read it, and if this is the most logically offensive sign out of a collection of hundreds of thousands, that’s pretty damn impressive.

True, it is a big part of the story, but we need to see how her arc in Episode 8 plays out to know how much importance is placed on a weapon. Perhaps she is embracing the Dark Side in her fight with Kylo Ren, so she’s going down an Anakin Skywalker path. In this case the importance of the lightsaber in this scene is justified. Otherwise, I think the focus of this scene should be the safety of Finn and company.

My main interest is in keeping the entirety of the music in this scene. Whether or not the lightsaber shot remains in V2 is an issue I am willing to concede 😃

Not that it is of particular importance in the grand scheme of things, but I was digging around online to find better images of Trump’s Inauguration crowd vs Obama’s, since most outlets crop the images before the new buildings at the National Mall. Here is a comparison from Reuters shown on Japan Times, with the Trump picture allegedly taken at 12:01:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-draws-far-smaller-inaugural-crowd-obama/#.WIWx6X1WJ8G

And a CBS report with the same image:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/photos-president-trumps-inauguration-crowd-vs-president-obamas/

An even more expansive shot, from slightly earlier:

Finally, here’s a full view of the Obama 2009 inauguration:

I looked everywhere for a similar image for Trump’s inauguration, but I think it’s pretty safe to say there was nobody hanging out back there in the boonies.

DominicCobb said:

NeverarGreat said:

Here’s my ideal version of that scene without the pilot celebrations. It’s music only at this point, but I’ve also removed the lightsaber pickup shot because it feels like a prequelism.
https://vimeo.com/200626043
password: music

Ooh, nice I appreciate trying to preserve that utterly splendid musical cue (though I can’t abide the removal of that lightsaber pickup, nor the calling it a “prequelism”).

Thanks!

I guess my main problem with the saber shot is that it detracts from the almost equally brief shot of Finn beforehand, implying equivalent importance. This rubs me the wrong way, since Finn is (and should be) much more important to the viewer than a mere weapon.

Here’s my ideal version of that scene without the pilot celebrations. It’s music only at this point, but I’ve also removed the lightsaber pickup shot because it feels like a prequelism.
https://vimeo.com/200626043
password: music

That moment I realize that I’m the one on the left

…and ‘paper’ is replaced with ‘book’.

That would be nice, I haven’t found anything that works in Markdown though.