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The memorial video?

While TPM is the best prequel movie, its ending is sort of incredibly boring. I don’t like the whole Victory Ceremony scene.

Most sets had mostly practical elements? Compositing was mostly done to extend sets rather than as a substitute for them entirely?

That scene was shot on a bluescreen during reshoots, judging by Ewan’s wig.

What???

Here is a portion of my Phantom Menace edit:

https://streamable.com/ezlmj

There are countless specific changes but I can run through the major stuff:

• Removed Jar-Jar
• Anakin is less enthusiastic; he’s a slave.
• Character interactions have been edited so that it becomes clear to the viewer that Qui-Gon is Anakin’s father without outright saying it.
• Anakin no longer comes up with the entire plan to get the money, he just brings up the race and prize money.

What do you think?

Tried to emulate 4k77’s look with Menace.

And here’s something that I’m proud of:

I feel like adding more of a ‘base’ would also enhance the effect. More buildings near/around the platform, maybe?

I’ve always thought it would be a cool idea to edit the Prequels to look like they were shot before the OT. That is a nice step in that direction, I think.

I really wanted an Attack of the Clones equivalent of the dark side caves on Dagobah and Ahch-to.

I think it’s fun to show Anakin getting killed by Vader.

Here’s something that I’ve been messing around with:

https://streamable.com/msthr

Sound design is hard.

https://streamable.com/nfiri

I tried to tighten up the fight and reduce on-screen presence of digital stunt-doubles and odd motion blur.

My main problem with it is that Han truly doesn’t believe in the Force in ANH while Chewbacca had fought alongside the greatest Jedi of all time.

I’ve completed every shot that had a Lightsaber ignited in the rain.

https://streamable.com/7vusg

If anyone wants a high quality version for their own use, PM me.

Here’s something I’ve always wanted to see.

https://streamable.com/vej24

Steam coming off of the saber!

Here’s the first bit of Obi-Wan on Kamino with that same mentality:

https://streamable.com/qv9z2

Obi-Wan has a problem in this movie where he tells strangers his entire plan? Instead of being a detective, and seeing where his suspects go with things, he gives them more information? Why would he tell the Kaminoans that Sifo-Dyas was killed? In this clip, it’s clear that something’s wrong with what they tell Obi-Wan, so the audience can stay invested. ‘Why is Obi-Wan confused?’. Later, when he talks to Mace over skype, is when the audience can learn.

I also cut off the beginning of the scene because it wasn’t needed. We don’t need Obi-Wan to tell the prime minister his name, the audience already knows who he is!

I also removed the unrealistic waterfalls. They’re a distraction.

JEDIT: Another clip:

https://streamable.com/axjid

Here’s the introduction of the army:

https://streamable.com/mirrk

In keeping with the idea that Obi-Wan is lead through a mystery in this movie, You don’t actually know that they’re clones up until this point. The Kaminoans don’t mention the word ‘clone’, they only explain that they have an army in the previous scene. The audience finds out when we cut to the shot of all the identical children.

I removed the name ‘Jango’ and instead referred to him as 'The Bounty Hunter, Fett".

The cut from Padme to the Army suggests that while she’s having a fun time with Anakin, her mind is also on other things. I always wondered why she looked sort of upset at the end of that shot?

I also thought that Obi-Wan smiling at this weird mystery-army didn’t fit with his character and made no sense? Also, at the end of this scene, I might cut back to Anakin and Padme, or I might cut to Jango’s apartment? I feel like the spot I left it at is a good ‘cliffhanger’ for a scene transition, but I feel like we haven’t spent enough time with Obi to justify cutting back to what Anakin is up to.

Also: I plan on adding more dialogue to the shots of the clones.

Who could have guessed that the guy who made countless videos on why Brie Larson, Disney, and Kathy Kennedy are the devil made a bad edit.

Anakin Starkiller said:

Man, Anakin’s Jedi Code loophole is actually a pretty clever line.

Yeah, I agree!

Here’s a test of how I could end the scene:

https://streamable.com/8n858

We don’t need an entire scene dedicated to how the people liked Amidala so much they wanted to amend their constitution. If the movie wants us to like her character, it needs to come naturally.

And here’s something extra:

I was thinking it would wipe to Obi-Wan discovering Kamino.

Or it could cut to Anakin and Padme walking around in Italy talking about how ‘the queen asked her to serve’ or whatever, helping Anakin’s line of ‘You haven’t changed’ by showing us she’s still invested in politics? Whatever works better.

Here’s Anakin and Padme’s conversation on the ship, but (hopefully) less awful.

https://streamable.com/b8u90

I removed anything that could possibly show Anakin to be creepy, I even tried to make him sort of relatable. I tightened up reactions and made all of the line delivery faster, especially by removing awkward pauses between Christensen’s lines (faster, more intense.) I hope it comes across as a better scene than the original.

I also removed the implication that Jedi are forbidden to love by removing the second half of Padme’s line.

What Dom said.

I bet, oof.

to be honest I think that Clones can be improved 100% if you just remove every single line that isn’t crucial to the furthering of the plot.

“Exiting Hyperspace”

https://streamable.com/lltlc

I have no idea how to make the sound design actually sound good, so ignore the sound.