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another reason not to place a traditional crawl detailing my editing intentions:

from a storytelling perspective, it’s usually best to show, not tell. consider how often you’ve seen a studio-released movie with an opening statement detailing a director’s intention. that kind of stuff is best left for the cover and the eventual edit description that will be posted @ fanedit.org.

still, there will be plenty of starwarsy goodness in this edit. i recently edited the spear fight to the precise length of a certain J Williams tune. 😃

thanks for the interest, spaced ranger!

i considered very briefly having an opening crawl (even light saber sound effects for the elite samurai), but i still want this film to be very much a kurosawa film. thanks for the suggestions, though!

found an outlet for light saber sound effects. you’ll notice something in the youtube featurette. . . now that i have that out of my system, i don’t feel the need to insert these sounds in the actual movie, where they would be fun but also out of place.

but maybe. . . just for kicks, i might consider a second audio track with tie fighter sounds for horses, blaster noises for gunfire, and light saber sounds. building audio is a lot of work, though!

another sneak peek. this clip uses the imperial audiophile TESB soundtrack, courtesy of A B C and darthrush. thanks again!

https://vimeo.com/168139086
password = fanedit.org

notes:
• the imperial audiophile edition sounds less brassy than the official 1997 soundtrack release. it works well in this particular passage, though in other scenes, i’ll use the tracks from the CD.
• the wipe is george’s, i mean, kurosawa’s. the video hiccup immediately after the wipe appears to be a source issue, as it’s present on both the blu-ray and dvd.
• this clip has the original music by masaru sato right before transitioning to the john williams score. the two can exist side-by-side without incongruity, methinks.
• the imperial slaver doesn’t say “so hurry” in the original movie, but i thought i’d have fun transliterating a japanese line that sounds like english.

If George Lucas had never seen Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress, we probably wouldn’t have the Star Wars we know today. Now it’s time to put some Star Wars back into The Hidden Fortress.

Editing goals:
• to rescore The Hidden Fortress with John William’s music from Star Wars
• to rename the major characters and clans with Starwarsian names: Reia, General Kenobi, Atu, Situri, and a few others best left as surprises
• and to make the edit family-friendly by removing a questionable scene, curse words, and lightly rewriting some of the dialogue.

There will be other trims to improve pacing. The story will remain largely unchanged from the original film, but incidental dialogue will be altered to reference the Star Wars universe.

Rescoring won’t be flawless, since the original audio is essentially mono. The 3.0 Perspecta sound is really a mono track manipulated to provide directionality, so there’s no music-free center channel. Still, it’s possible to rescore this baby, and if my early drafts are any indication, the movie picks up a different vibe with a JW score.

Sneak peeks:
https://vimeo.com/167065284
https://vimeo.com/164068500
password for both = fanedit.org

And part of the featurette:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHge9QqIzgY

[if anybody can instruct me on posting video directly here, i’d be much obliged.]

Don’t want to start a new thread, so I’ll drop this here. It’s a continuation of the discussion, after all. Will try the same scene with the audiophile version soon.

https://vimeo.com/167065284
password = fanedit.org

Cheers!

thanks again, darthrush! i thanked you over at FE as well, assuming that the darthrush registered on that site is also you. (perilous assumption, i know.)

and thanks to A B C for putting this project together. seems like a massive undertaking and a labor of love. hope he earned some telekinetic powers at the end of it all; otherwise there’s no justice in this universe. 😄

darthrush, thank you so much!

haven’t yet had a chance to DL, much less listen, but I’m eagerly looking forward to it and totally stoked by your generosity and time.

fascinating thread. i can understand A B C’s initial frustration at the perceived lack of interest; that’s normal, it seems, for these types of projects. of course, once his project was released, it seems interest went “schproing.”

^^ likewise, amigo!

and hello to hal 9000 & smithers & silverwook as well. (and anyone else i know from FE.org! i didn’t look through all the posts yet.)

may the unwakening be with you all.

p.s. as far as my kids are concerned, i do a pretty wicked kylo ren impersonation.

hi, there. not a hit-and-run poster here.

i’m new to OT.com, but i’ve been a regular at fanedit.org for years. i’m working on a new fanedit: kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress with a SW soundtrack and lightly modified subtitles, and i just learned of this audiophile project.

the imperial audiophile edition sounds like a fantastic endeavor. before i ask anyone to share, i’m going to read through the related threads to learn more about the project, which i hope i can use in my edit (and if i do, for which i’ll give due credit to A_B_C and others involved).

cheers!

TV’s Frink said:

HI

hi back, freenk. is this kanji klub?