![]() “It is unprecedented for a movie trailer to have an advance screening, let alone one that’s covered by the BBC – but everything about Episode Ihas been unprecedented.” “It is unprecedented for an advance screening of a movie trailer to attract so much curiosity,” the Washington Post wrote. Read more: Complete Schedule of Upcoming Star Wars Movies ![]() According to Variety, around 500 people bustled into a screening of The Siege in Los Angeles one afternoon, only for about two thirds of them to get up and leave as soon as the Phantom Menace trailer concluded. News outlets reported with bemusement as fans laid down their cash for a ticket to, say, Joe Black, sat through the trailer and promptly left the theatre without watching the feature. This edit really was something between the complex Ep3 and the more simple Ep8.As a result, ticket sales for those films went through the roof. The rest of the scenes were more of a drag and drop, and not too complicated at all. Doing all the SFX from the ground up is always fun for me in these edits. The new stuff during the duel was upscaled from the DVD, and never had any sound to begin with, so it was fun to go and and edit all the lightsaber spins, swings and hits from scratch, same with the N1 Starfighter shots. The blue screen and colour timing was a pain to get right too, but looked good. ![]() There's still a bit more footage of Adrian Dunbar as Bail Antillies/Organa on my cutting room floor, as it was tricky to get him to work in the scene, as to not show too much of him, and not too little. I borrowed one of Hal9000's edits too, which moves the probe droid scene to right before the deleted scene of Qui-Gon cutting it in half, so that the set up is a little bit closer to the pay off. It was his idea to cut the little scene with Qui-Gon giving Anakin the credits, as the Greedo scenes makes the continuity a little tricky. ![]() I took the extended podrace scenes from the DVD, and replaced most of the footage with the Blu-Ray, so that all the upscaled stuff is weaved through here and there, and hopefully undetectable.ĪDM had made his edit years ago, and looking back on it now, it's not the most amazingly done one, but I defintely did some similar things here and there. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply.AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |