Here’s the Mustafar Establishing shot:
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What was done:
-Speed 15x
-Color graded
-TIE’s removed
-Lavafall slowed
-Windows darkened
-Forest tracked
This is still a little longer than all 3 previous establishing shots, so I may be able to speed ramp the middle of the shot some more after everything else is finalized.
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Rush Hour.
Fantastic movie. See it.
Well Disney has been known to make edits to their streaming material after it has been released, so it’s not outside the bounds of reason.
“Lord Sidious, I have good news…should I simply say the news or do you want to hear it in person?”
“Lord Tyrannus, you know that we must meet once a month for our dark conspirings.”
“Where would you like to meet, Lord Sidious? Perhaps someplace that isn’t too hard to get to this time…say, a nondescript location near the Senate?”
“Sometimes I question your dedication to our Sith cause, Lord Tyrannus. Just for that, take your solar-powered space boat and meet me at the literal ass-end of the galaxy, like so far away and hard to find that just asking for directions is illegal.”
I’ve only done the Kylo scene, FYI, that list is just scenes that could be completed and used.
I’m personally making as many extending shots to Mustafar as possible, mainly for pacing and to establish this work.
Nev, that colour is amazing! Are you motion tracking the forest in the background?
I am tracking it. Parallax is tricky, but it should work with minimal distortion when done.
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You and me both! Tracking the forest elements will be a bit of a trick, but I have hope that it will work.
The third shot does work well right now, but for time we’d then have to lose the river of lava approachig the castle if we keep the reveal of the forest beyond.
I’ll err on the side of the longer shot just in case, since it can always be cut shorter. 😃
A Work-in-progress on color correcting and forest-ing the Vader Castle shot:
Obviously the lights of the castle will be darkened.
As far as the shot length, I’ve sped it up 1000% (10X speed) and that’s still not enough to simply replace the castle from the original 3 shot establishing sequence. I don’t want to speed it up more since the smoke and fog looks odd (and I’ll have to re-track a slower version of the lavafall regardless), so I’m thinking that it might be possible to use this one shot to replace all three.
Thoughts?
Replace all action sequences with footage of 6-year-old boys playing with their action figures.
The movie also takes pains to show how Luke feels constrained by his life on the farm, so showing him in his element from the get-go would probably send the wrong message about his arc. I also like how his piloting ability is talked about but never seen until the end of the film - it’s a promise that gets a resounding payoff.
Basically, I think Luke’s piloting ability does tell, it’s just delayed for dramatic effect.
Aunt Beru puts tiny CGI creatures in the food processor rather than vegetables.
This could be a net positive if Luke’s indiscriminate killing of Womp Rats and other animals was to feed his family.
Watching through this edit, I realized that we don’t get Ben’s name until his confrontation with Han. I thought I had just cut a line somewhere, but no, that’s actually how it is in the theatrical as well. Even odder, Rey and Finn only arrive in the scene after he says it, so they don’t learn his name onscreen in this film. Rey has to learn his name from Luke in TLJ, as far as we know. We’re not even sure if she suspects Ben’s relationship with Han until their confrontation at the end of the film, which is odd since she’s one of our POV characters and we know this information less than halfway through the film in the Theatrical version.
Maybe keeping Ben’s name a secret for so long was to drag out the mystery of his full identity, but we know basically everything about him before that so there seems little reason for it.
All this to say, I thought it would be interesting to work in Ben’s name earlier in the film. It would be fairly easy to put this info during Rey’s force vision by having audio of Luke’s “Ben, no!” when he is killing in the rain. That way Rey and the audience learn his name at the same time, and it’s close to the confirmation of his familial origin.
What would be even better would be to have Rey use this information during her interrogation to rattle Ben instead of talking about how he fears not being as strong as Vader, which isn’t really supported by the rest of the sequels. I tried making her final line ‘You’re afraid…that you will never be [] strong as Ben Solo!’, but it is an odd sentence structure that loses its original impact. The ideal line would have been ‘You’re afraid…that you will never be more than Ben Solo!’, but of course that would have to be frankenstitched to death.
Ah well.
It still looks heavily blue, but I’d be interested in seeing more comparisons.
That’s my secret: every sequence is a load-bearing poster of Krusty the Clown.
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I’m planning to use as much TFA footage in the alternate ending as possible. The TLJ footage of her waking up will be replaced with a more straightforward image of the island.
That’s the plan anyway, but I don’t need to worry about that for a while since that won’t be in Starlight Standard.
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I was thinking the Ascendant v1 sequence, but that will do in a pinch, thanks.
I can handle the Mustafar Biomes shot, no worries MR.
JEDIT: I know there have been plenty of mockups of the first few shots of the film, but if someone can link me one so I can get a feel for the speed we need to match, that would be great. 500 pages is just a lot to comb through 😉
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Oh yeah, I’m basically just taking Restructured’s changes for the end of the film. Thanks for pointing that out 😃
The Biomes footage is quite leisurely in pacing. I had to speed up the Falcon shots quite a bit in my edit to get them looking right for a JJ production, so ramping the speed of Mustafar is a good idea IMO, maybe do a speed ramp from the distance then slow it dynamically to the spot where the TIE’s fly overhead.
Neigh it is, then 😃
Truly. I considered keeping it, since I’m sure the audience would like to know what the hell is going on in that mysterious masked head. 😛
JEDIT: Speaking of that moment, in the previous versions I had the sounds of child Ben running, but like the aforementioned line I felt it was too on-the-nose and with the vehicle flythrough footage I figured that was more than enough to get the point across. But someone has told me they prefer the child sounds, so what does everyone think, yay or neigh?