CaptainFaraday

I keep thinking about Watto and the chance cube, and how to keep it in a “Qui-Gon frees Shmi” edit. As I figure it, there’s only two moments of dialogue that need to be altered.

When Watto says “red, the boy - blue, his mother,” change it to “red, them both - blue, neither.”

This follows on from “no pod is worth two slaves” and his lecherous “we’ll let fate decide,” and strengthens the following “your friend had better be careful or I’ll end up owning him too,” since (from Watto’s perspective) Qui-Gon now gambled on a whim with very disadvantageous odds.

I wonder if there’s anything in AOTC that might be usable?

Servii said:

Add a gigantic, flashing neon sign on the front of Jabba’s palace that says “Jabba’s Secret Palace” on it and has a giant arrow pointing to the entrance.

I swear one of the Lego Star Wars shows did that exact joke and I was excited to say “Wish granted!” but now I can’t find any proof of it online.

RogueLeader said:

Hahaha, that’s so good.

I think we should make a Google drive and just start uploading everyone’s clips until we can cut it together as a complete movie.

Absolutely. I thought about organising something, like divvying out scenes to people so there’s no double up, but I’m not the best person to organise that kind of thing.

https://streamable.com/i0p1cz

Servii said:

R2 would just look like he’s in one of the ghost costumes from Charlie Brown Halloween. He’d just need a single eye hole near the top.

Dub in the stormtrooper who gets clocked by an Ewok boulder saying “I got a rock.”

Peter Pan said:

Check out Obi-Wan’s clone wars voice, this one is spot on and might be useful for some Prequel edits as well, due to JAT’s Obi sounding a lot like Ewan’s.

I typed a test sentence in, and it added some stuff to the end that I didn’t put in. I’m god damn losing it.

TLJ has a very warm and very soft light appearance. Which I personally like, but I still completely agree that the film is visually too dark for the same reasons you’ve pointed out. My own suggestion is that the new grade ups the contrast too much - it’s making the bright parts stand out even more from the scenery, while also washing out the lighting gradient on people’s faces like they’re standing under fluro tubes. In my opinion, the lighter areas don’t really need to get much lighter at all, it’s just the mids that need to be brightened a bit. You’ll also be fighting against the theatrical lighting by going for a blue tint, which isn’t to say that you shouldn’t do it (it would certainly be an interesting change), but it’ll be a lot more difficult.

I feel like that sounds overly negative, which isn’t my intention; I always like seeing your colour grading process.

There’s been some discussion in the Monthly Thread about possibly pooling together money for a month’s worth once everyone has all of their source files ready to go and doing all of the lines everyone needs at once.

Boba spells out his motivation when he’s talking to Fennec - he’s sick of being a bounty hunter working for gang bosses who make stupid decisions based on short-term thinking that gets people killed and causes problems, and he thinks someone with his experience could do it better. The show is him finding out that he’s bitten off slightly more than he can chew and it’s a harder job than he thought.

Hal 9000 said:

Tell that to the AOTC crawl.

I had to look it up because I couldn’t believe it. George Lucas writing that has the same “focused on the story” chad energy as Peter Capaldi saying that he’d always wanted the role of Doctor Who.

Dub in select Denis Lawson lines from the BBC TV show New Tricks to give Wedge Antilles more than one line in TROS.

Edit: Wait, maybe this isn’t that terrible of an idea.

I’ve been meaning to ask - is your colour grade applied to the entire film with the same settings, or do you go in and tweak individual scenes/shots once you’ve got the overall grade figured out?

Hal 9000 said:

I suspect Burbin is right. The existing crawl serves this film, and changing it too much feels contrived to suit other ancillary material.

Nevertheless, here’s another…

The First Order reigns. Having [removed all the peaceful Republic’s defenses], Supreme Leader Snoke gathers his remaining forces to seize control of the galaxy’s central solar systems.

Only General Leia Organa’s band of Resistance fighters stand against the rising tyranny, certain that Jedi Master Luke Skywalker will return and restore a spark of hope to the fight.

But the Resistance has been exposed. As the First Order speeds toward the rebel base, the brave heroes mount a desperate escape…

The First Order reigns. Having decimated the peaceful New Republic, Supreme Leader Snoke gathers his remaining forces to seize control of the galaxy’s central star systems.

(I also changed it to “star systems”, since that’s what they call them in the SW movies, and “solar system” refers specifically to the star Sol.)

Really nice use of the TLJ dialogue.

Wow, that does have a really big impact. Good work! I don’t have any issue with Alden in the role, however, if the rest of the scenes were ever deepfaked, pitching his dialogue down like that would make for a really cool alternative edition to watch.

I’m generally a bit eh on fan films, but I will say, that one has absolutely incredible fight choreography.

Excellent analysis.

Me too.

Chaos engulfs the galaxy! Having decimated the New Republic’s capital and military, Supreme Leader Snoke presses his advantage to seize control of the galaxy’s central star systems.

In the wake of this disaster, General Leia Organa’s RESISTANCE fears that only the return of Jedi Master Luke Skywalker can restore a spark of hope to the fight.

But the Resistance has been exposed. As the First Order speeds toward the rebel base, the brave heroes mount a desperate escape…

I like that crawl. The middle paragraph could do with being split into multiple sentences to simplify it a bit, but the core of it is strong. I think the first paragraph is good.

“A power vacuum is here”

You’re adding yet another Imperial superweapon?

I really like “Chaos reigns!” or “The First Order rises.” I might actually change my own edit’s crawl to include one of them, if that’s alright with RL / Cadavra (depending on which one I lean towards).

I made this a while ago.

I think that’s a good read on background subtext that’s already there - at least it’s what I inferred from watching the theatricals. I agree that TLJ is the weak link in the chain in this regard, however, I don’t think any of the actual events onscreen are the issue - it’s the crawl, which (I think accidentally) implies they’ve bum-rushed everywhere at once and overwhelmed the Galaxy (despite the fact that we can see the core of their remaining forces, which are chasing down a small handful of ships that keep outrunning them). I always interpreted the First Order as a military junta, so I changed the first paragraph of the crawl to spell it out:

The FIRST ORDER reigns. The New Republic has been decimated, and in this state of galactic confusion, Supreme Leader Snoke’s armies have seized key territories and taken military control of the galaxy.

Oh, I’ll absolutely use that last one when I eventually do my own TROS tweak.

I hadn’t seen the other two before and I’m losing my shit at the Poe Hug one.