Excellent work ESF. More than most PT colour corrections I've seen, that one really makes it look like it was shot in the 1970s, which look I think I'd want to see in a PT edit. I might want the sky to stand out a little more, otherwise it's spot-on.
There will be an AVCHD release (or something like that, someone correct me if I mixed up the letters), which is essentially a DVD-9 disc that uses Blu-Ray formatting (and thus can have Ady's 720p version). Computers and PS3s can read them, not sure about regular Blu-Ray players.
Hah. Think yourselves lucky, snowed-in folks. Where I am it's going to hit 41°C (106°F) tomorrow. Even hotter where Johnny Ringo is. I know cold sucks as much as heat, but at least it's easier to warm up than to cool down.
Patience, young Padawan.
Could work.
Yoda said:
A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defence. Never for attack.
And elsewhere, Jedis activate their lightsabres to show that they are not defenceless, and to try to warn off an attack; in ANH:R, Adywan made the significant change of having Vader waiting for Obi-Wan with his sabre turned off, and Obi-Wan activating his first. Of course, unless Yoda or Obi-Wan specifically told him of this, Luke wouldn't know it, but Vader is definitely right in calling him unwise.
Jason Wingreen said:
Put Captain Cargo in the solo hold.
You make a good point, SK. There are any number of films footage of the persecution of Naboo's population could be constructed (or even simply lifted) from, if an editor wanted to show it. It would have to be done very well to not look like an overly forced case of dog kicking, but it could work.
I expect it's a different technology. Otherwise, all the Rebels would have had to do to penetrate the shield would be to fly very slowly. Sure, not the greatest tactic, but better than sending Han's strike team to Endor and then hoping you'd waited long enough to let them do their job.
They still had the original Yoda puppet when they made the prequels (or at least they had the head). I remember seeing a video documentary which showed Stuart Freeborn, who designed Yoda for ESB, being given a tour of the puppetry facilities of TPM during production, and they showed him the original head. It still looked exactly the same. WHY didn't they use a digital scan of that to render the CGI Yoda?
I'm one who can accept multiple versions. As far as I'm concerned, there are two versions of ANH I might want to watch, the OUT and Revisited. I'm reasonably content with the GOUT, although I'd appreciate a new, anamorphic, clean transfer. If Renascent turns out to be as good in execution as it is in conception, that will probably make the list three. The thing is, each version has a different purpose. The OUT is a part of cinematic history in ways that no SE or fanedit ever could be. Revisited is going to be part of a six-part version with today's technology and is also something of a crowning achievement both for personal effort on Ady's part and community participation on ours. Renascent and Reborn follow an exciting and different method and are examples of "re-edit as art form".
It'd be fairly easy to make it "Fall of the Jedi: Revenge of the Sith Revisited" but I expect he'd rather go for consistency.
I thought Attack of the Clones was a perfectly fine title. It's pulpy and cheesy, but all these titles are — some people had the same reaction to The Empire Strikes Back back in the day. As for The Phantom Menace, I'm not particularly attached to that title but I don't have a problem with it. I disagree with Ghost that it should be about Anakin: the movie itself isn't about Anakin. If you saw it on its own, it's about the Queen's quest to save her people. The Jedi are the point-of-view characters, and Anakin is just the token kid character for what is in many ways a lighthearted family adventure movie — he has his podrace scene, and he does his part in the big battle, but the movie isn't about him any more than it's about Jar Jar Binks. I like that about it — as the first film in a series, even with half the sequels made and the others functionally greenlit even before it was written, it should stand alone. If you make it about Anakin, it can't stand alone any more, because it only tells the very beginning of his story.
Tell me about it, Savage. I was driving home from work yesterday and wondered why my steering wheel was suddenly glowing orange... then I realised I was still wearing my safety vest.
Not even going to touch that one, JMF.
At the moment, it's not money holding Ady back. Yes, I assume he will still need it when he gets back into making the edit, but he has more important things to do now and trying to get him to rush back into it, even or even especially with donations, will be unproductive and could even come across as selfish and offensive given the reason why he's not working on it at the moment. Even if he were to decide to release a beta or workprint version, which I don't expect he would want to do anyway, there would be no way to put a deadline on it because we don't know how long he'll be away from us and I don't think he does either.
Take care, Adywan, and all the best to you and your family for a safe and happy Christmas.
Reborn was abandoned due to a number of factors — among others, the scale of the project was ballooning and it would have been a bigger undertaking even than Adywan's Revisited saga, which I'd venture to say is probably the most ambitious fan-edit we've seen yet. Renascent is based on the same concept and some specific ideas from the Reborn project, but it's A-Man's work — InfoDroid and TJDavis1138 have moved on to other things.
ABD: yes please.
What's that got to do with it, DE? That's not taking artistic licence with reality, it's playing with the conventions of the medium (it's borderline but I'd even count sound-in-space as this); and in any case, Spielberg did have a reason for making Schindler's List that way. Showing physical things in a physically impossible arrangement, or one which violates continuity, can't be excused by "artistic licence" unless it makes a point. The only way I can see that applying here is if it made the ship more menacing, say, than a realistic shot would. It can be excused by "limited effects capabilities", and if we have the ability to correct it, we can.
I'm not demanding absolute realism. What matters is not that the film be realistic but that it be believable, and continuity or spatial violations can stretch that for some.
Artistic/dramatic licence is an excuse if and only if it doesn't "work" without it. I see no problem with making the arrangement of SDs make physical sense; it doesn't detract from the film.
Very nice. Good use of cues from the Battle of Yavin, and the editing plays the battle for its plot rather than its spectacle. It's a minor shame to lose the opening oner, but that shot was only ever showing off; there was no particular cinematographic reason to use it.
I was wondering how you'd work changing the Tydirium to a freighter when it's named as a shuttle twice in dialogue, but I realised that'd be a relatively easy cut:
Madine: We have stolen a small Imperial [snip] cargo ship. [snip] Using a secret Imperial code, a strike team will land on the moon and deactivate the shield generator.
I suspect cutting Piett's reference might be a little harder. He says it very fast, and if you just cut the word "shuttle", it's less clear what Tydirium refers to, given it's the only instance of the name in the film.
No, this was when the video was still there, but it was like it was only showing every few frames.
I tried watching it but it was like 10 frames a second - which meant there was no way to see any of the lipsyncing or anything. Any chance you could upload it through the usual channels as well?
The lightsabre battle in TPM was thoroughly awesome. One of the most inspired ideas from the Reborn project, IMO, was opening the first film in medias res with that battle. One of the few ways (from the point of view of someone who's never seen the films) to rival the "wow" factor of the actual opening of ANH.
Same here.