muddyknees2000

It's a REALLY heavy head...not sure I had enough rolls to do the job.

there's a cupped handle that screws onto the threaded bolt on the underside of the head, sandwiching the tripod between them......this is loosened and retightened (while moving the head and checking the bubble) to level the camera.....I was missing the cupped handle. It's a very heavy head, and a heavy enough camera rig.....so had I not found something decent at a nearby hardware store the shoot was probably going to have to be delayed. It's a silly little piece of equipment that seems like nothing, but it's everything when you realize you don't have it.

EDIT: The tripod screw issue was from another shoot entirely.....from the material I'm slowly gathering for my animated sleepy hollow re-edit. Shooting live action material for menus to match the live action library opening from the film itself. THAT'S an easier issue to get around....tape (and lots of it) did the trick that time.

*edit* question already answered

21st now......probably in a few hours.

A few Vader shots to replace some bad rotoscoping and to fix a continuity error.

For those of you not on the book of faces.....3rd Unit is shooting this Friday. One step closer to a finished product!

Moth3r save us.

Ziz said:

muddyknees2000 said:

I tire of the constant EU fueled suppositions as much as the next guy....but to be fair Vader DOES actually specifically walk up to the 2 pilots in question and order them to follow him.....he doesn't just grab 2 guys walking by.

Yes, they were walking by probably on their way to their fighters to join the battle overall.  Vader happened to cross their paths and commandeered them as his wingmen.

Watch the film again......if he had caught them walking by the dialogue would have happened in the middle of the hallway. Vader purposefully turns and heads over to the wall where these 2 piolts were standing, waiting.

I tire of the constant EU fueled suppositions as much as the next guy....but to be fair Vader DOES actually specifically walk up to the 2 pilots in question and order them to follow him.....he doesn't just grab 2 guys walking by.

Ronster said:

...Icicles melting...

 

Springtime for Vader?

ray_afraid said:

Is your "yup" confirming that this will happen, or just an agreement?

Just an agreement. But I wouldn't be surprised if Ady does something very close to that. It would be a great revisited tradition. Ady loves a good joke, so people saying that he doesn't have time for something like that don't know him very well.

Ronster said:

Ady should kill Jah Jah in the most disgusting way possible in the special features for each of his revisited editions... It could be a running joke that Jah Jah always gets killed in the special features. :)

Yup.

(Concerning dawn on Endor) An excerpt from my overview of what could be/needs to be changed from ROTJ:

There actually IS a spot in the film that needs a dawn......right before the ground battle on Endor......jumps way too quickly into the action.

The Nerd said:

F*** yeah! Do the eyes. Luke should have red eyes as he's swing his saber to chop of Vader's hand and when the closeup of Luke looking at his own hand, his eyes return to their natural color. This shows just how close Luke was to turning to the dark side.

No-one has had a hard time figuring out what was going on in Luke's head in that scene.....all without the benefit of the cheapest PT gag we got.....Sith eyes.

metalmunki said:

 

I think the issue people had with Boba's death is not the finality of it, but the fact that it's death by slapstick. 

All the more reason to give him a more serious and definitive death.

Ronster said:

...Anakin in TPM really felt nothig like a slave...

Actually this could be pretty easily achieved with just the new voice-over that Ady wants to give Anakin. 

Shots like the one in which Watto tells Anakin to clean the racks and that he can go home early are easily changed....Watto speaks in an alien language, so all that needs to be altered are the subtitles.....make it something more like "Ok, you've had your fun, now get back to work"....and instead of Jake Loyd's "Yipee!" you just substitute the new voice actor saying something like "yes sir, right away"......have the actor deliver the line with enough urgency and adding it to Jake Loyd's quick scurrying off the ledge he's sitting on makes it look like he's at least semi-fearful of Watto, or the possible repercussions of not moving fast enough to obey his orders.

Bingowings said:

Star Wars aliens tend not to look like proper creatures.

Ackbar has a cuttlefish face and he is implied to be amphibian too when there is no exterior evidence of him doing anything in the sea (his space ship isn't full of water for example).

There isn't anything in his native environment that points to why Chewie looks the way he does.

I disagree. Ackbar has webbed hands, and sounds like he breathes through gills or some other organ that draws his breath through a certain amount of moisture. So there are both visual and auditory clues there. As for Chewie, he is similar to a bear in his type of skin covering....this might suggest that there is a cold season on his planet, or that the nights (or days) get cold.

Gungans have no webbed appendages. Their stumpy, elephant-like feet would push very little water while treading. Their ears serve no purpose while swimming (that we're shown) and would probably only get in the way what with their floppiness. They aren't shown as having gills, etc, etc........there's just nothing about them that suggests anything about an aquatic origin. They were a VERY bad design for a creature who's primary habitat is underwater.

Bingowings said:

They are meant to be amphibian.

The city looks a bit too posh to be a hideout/bunker.

They don't come off looking amphibian in any way. They look like they would be extremely ill suited to living primarily underwater.......just as we are. We DO go underwater.....but we don't base our civilization there because of our physical limitations.

And who are we to judge the amount of design an alien culture wants to put into a secondary habitat. And if it was where they were doing their cloning they might just put a little more effort into it seeing as they'd be spending large amounts of time there. Naboo isn't Tatooine.....not everything has to be simple and utilitarian.

EDIT: On a side note, go and look at their instruments of war. Things like this should be simple and functional....but their catapults are very decorative and ornate for what they are. Gungans are clearly artistic and take pride in their architecture and the design of everyday objects.  

One thing I would very much like to see is the underwater city of the Gungans turned into more of a hideout, or cloning facility. I hated that an elephant footed, floppy eared race of beings supposedly lived underwater......they do not resemble aquatic beings at all. If Ady is redoing much of the dialogue (or all of it) for the Gungans, then it should be very simple to bring across the idea that they live on land (and they actually DO spend more time on land in the film than they do underwater) (this would also aid in making it plausible that they also have trained many of the land based creatures on Naboo to be their pack animals and/or mounts). The underwater city should definitely be their secondary place of residence, or where they do their work, or a hideout of sorts.

They can clone successfully, they can speed up the process with growth acceleration....still sounds like advanced tech to me.

Also, this is a fictional universe. I have no problem believing that things there are not necessarily as they are here. Perhaps, even with all the other scientific advancements they HAVE managed, cloning still eluded them until just recently (in their time) (a long time ago, in our time).

Not to mention that cloning (in SW) clearly ISN"T a widely held skill set, seeing as the Kaminoans are the only race shown who can actually do it.......so that particular in-universe reality is already dictated to us. If anything, showing the Gungans as also knowing how to clone, makes it more common....which actually DOES lend itself to the idea that it goes hand in hand with a more technologically advanced universe. Not everyone is going to be great at it, so they've left it up to the species who have particularly high aptitudes in that domain. 

Also.....it's just a movie.

adywan said:

So what if the Gungans are actually clones...

would help to explain why they all look so damn alike

this is a re-edit....not a re-shoot

regularjoe said:

...imagine E1 if Dooku was the agent of Palpatine and didn't die at the end and was ported into E2 as something more than a weak plot device.

This is a wet dream of mine.

obikal said:

Just curious - what do you guys like about Darth Maul?  I know a lot of people like him, and say he's the best thing in Ep 1, so I'm curious what it is about him that people like.

 

(and I know, being the best thing in Ep 1 might not mean much...)

I actually don't like him all that much.....I think his showiness is a big part of whats wrong with the PT...only eclipsed by Grievous.