what's going on everyone hope you're
having a great day so far i'm very
excited because today we're going to be
going into the beginning
of making episode one where it all began
or at least in george's mind
so sit back relax and let's watch this
documentary and of course there are tons
of other things that we're going to go
into after this i'm going to release
some deleted scenes and then we've got
the main menu of course which is going
to cover
tons more information featurettes web
documentaries etc etc
so let's begin
the auteur theory of film actually is
very true if you know directors
because they are very much like their
movies and in the case of somebody who
writes and directs
you know it is my life i mean everything
i write is my life i'm not writing some
sort of
hypothetical thesis on something i'm
writing a story that i have to get
extremely emotional involved in because
it's going to take two or three years of
my life to do it
so i can't just sort of say oh this will
be fun and knock it off in a week
i have to this is like a marriage this
goes on you have to be in love with this
thing
for at least four or five years and
probably for the rest of your life
who's the cameraman there
and so it begins storyboards
well
i would say in the end that this is set
yeah we've got one little piece of wool
yeah oh yeah two pieces and then this
is a you guys
this is real
this is real
real real not surreal
not surreal real
just gonna be tricky
that's real that's real real
that's a real stuff like crate
i was feeling so good about my ability
to do that and then i screwed it up
i know this is gonna work i know it's
gonna work because
it's impossible you know we're pushing
the envelope in a few places but
the biggest issue is volume it was just
the amount of stuff yes
and of course that's the part that
creates the
the world jar jar is a key to all this
if we get jar jar working because he's a
funnier character than we've ever had in
the movie as well the thing that's
really big here is is uh in the
um the big grass planet
battle there yeah zillions of creatures
and we we don't have a real good way of
doing that right now
what about so
yeah the whole thing is how you gonna
top the pod race
yeah because it's pretty intense they'll
be exhausted by the time
the in the pod race i'll be ready to go
home but the thing is that we can top
the pod race
with this incredible jedi battle that
we've always heard about in the last
three movies but never really got to see
and then that with anakin you know kind
of duplicating the luke skywalker
roll but you see the echo of where
it all is going to go instead of
destroying the death star he destroys
the ship that controls the robots
again it's like poetry so if they rhyme
every stanza kind of rhymes with the
last one
hopefully it'll work
and it did well you'll become
permanently part of the model
so if you can do the other one just like
that and then um
repeat this and then just and then glue
it right down
okay just like that
and dough hasn't been through the
backpack right now it doesn't it'll be
something like that
that looks pretty good right now we got
a actual leg got a
thigh a calf and a foot getting ready to
go to england
i went through with jeff the paw brace
so they're going to start
joe and he are going to really do a
serious breakdown on
um because i know george won't let the
pub race out yet but they'll start
working on
dust movement speed blurring
are you going to scream tomorrow no i go
to new york tomorrow
i'm going to fly to new york and then
show natalie the script
everything's said but you know it's a
bold idea the mattress
commit to three movies without reading a
single line
so i thought we'd be better she'd be a
lot happier if she knew
yeah and save her anakin is a
little boy who lives with his mother
all right this is natalie who is
otherwise known as
admit we were just discussing where we
were in the scene
and a little shop that sells used
spaceship parts
all right michael first stop you've
never met each other so this is the
first first time you've ever said
anything to each other
all right let me know when it's good for
you all right roll pitch
out speed
okay action
are you an angel what an angel
i've heard the deep space pilots talk
about them they live on the moons by ego
i think
the most beautiful creatures in the
universe
are you an angel what
an angel i've heard the deep space
pilots talk about them
they live on the moons of aego i think
scene one take one and action
are you an angel what an angel
they're the most beautiful creatures in
the universe
they're so good and kind they make even
the most
hardened space spice pirates
cry i've never heard of angels
scene one take two are you an angel
what an angel i've never heard of angels
before
you must be one maybe you just don't
know it scene one take three
you can't see the difference between the
two kids
again okay thank you thanks for watching
i hope so
would you choose i like
jake because he seems more natural i
like his body language
he's just not trained and this one just
hits the beats yeah i was gonna say some
people audition real well
okay tell me which one do you like
better let me know right now in charge
jake lloyd or the other guy i mean jake
did a great job but i think
i don't know the other guy had a bit of
a camera
look behind him look forward make those
quick moves
look back then forward yeah that's
better more abrupt
okay that's good
he's getting kind of quick at this and
she's been practicing
wow
what's it been like you've been telling
all your friends you're leaving for star
wars huh um
the only thing i said was um i've gone
away for the summer to film star wars
and then all these hands raised up for
questions so what kind of questions did
they ask you
oh so how come it takes two years to
film because they didn't hear me right
that i'm only taking three
three and a half months did you tell
them why it's gonna take so long for it
to come out
with the special effects and stuff yeah
yeah that's what i said i was gonna take
them
because of the special effects you know
how much money they're gonna spend to
make this movie
um probably over
fifty thousand dollars
okay what was it like 50 million
basically what we've done is we've taken
over the rolls-royce factory
uh which has about 850 000 square feet
and we converted it into stage space
right now we have 600 people working for
us 150 million usd
on three ships 24 hours a day
this is amazing right through this is
just one of our battle parades actually
oh man look at this this is
this is the new storm trooper oh this is
our new storm trooper but in a way
he's the old model replaced by star wars
being the new stormtrooper yeah
because what you don't realize is that
these guys really aren't very efficient
they these things you know jedi cut them
down like they're butter
and they really are pretty useless yeah
pretty useless really these old
dangle weed here yeah so
uh no oh sorry
you know these droids i can't get the
physiology right there we go
and so what happens in the end is they
all join forces and everything and the
gungas
battle the droids in this huge kind of
war and peace
battle like literally one piece right
huge
you know 10 000 troops i mean both sides
coming out each other coming at each
other that's great it's gonna be great
that's gonna be great it's gonna be
great that's gonna be great
the way i work is uh the first thing
i'll do is i'll go and i'll shoot a wide
shot i'll just set the camera up in the
corner
you know i'm not gonna relentlessly go
down and lay out
the storyboards or everything exactly
what's going to happen because i
i want to on the day when i see that
wide shot play itself out
in the set i take it you say action
after we roll camera
if i forget to say action or cut just
step in and say action cut
i manage action and cut and faster and
more intense
and then mostly i sit there looking
miserable and quiet
is this him yeah he's looking a bit lame
at the
it'll moment slightly warm inside that's
it a bit moist
it feels disgusting what is that
material
silicone
it's a cinderella moment it fits
i shall marry the prince right does that
feel painful anyway
uh more painful than normal ah if you
try and do this
this might not work it might dig in as
well okay
okay close to close now if you have
yours if you're doing exaggerated
dialogue does it work
exaggerated dialogue oh yes
it kind of moves yeah some people pay
huge amounts of money to have a woman
put them in this kind of thing
yeah not me and then tell them what to
do okay try again
big man exaggerated dialogue
um how are we gonna start what are we
gonna do
if i put my producer hat on then
it's purely i don't care how we get this
done
i don't care who pays for it i gotta
somehow get my movie made
when our budget is 50 million dollars
that's how much money we have
you know it's oh george you know the
sentiments that you express i am not
sympathetic i guess they went over i
think you can agree that we're not
really fat on how much time goes into
animating a particular thing or building
a particular creature or environment
so judith and i looked at every single
padres shot
we we had the i think we had the
14-minute version of it um
and we identified the environments that
we would apply
to do eb crater we've got
19 000 to create that environment
but i mean there's 600 thousand dollars
worth of
pods then then you actually have to do
the shots
which are sixteen million right so where
is the thing that
breaks down how much it costs
per shot hi steve my name is rick
mckellen i'm the producer of star wars
do you know where i can reach you and
now
and we're making some very aggressive uh
take some very aggressive positions on
okay well we're just gonna have to be
able to animate the
full face on jar jar in two weeks
brilliant
all right my dear take care bye
fantastic all right he's gonna call any
minute you just put me through
into this meeting okay you know austin i
i have
i have uh a reputation as a troublemaker
back at i almost always be
thank god that's why you're here exactly
okay so listen i'm i'm doing my
damnedest to figure out well how do we
even do a shot like this
and and uh okay well these are the
techniques i think
they're gonna be the most bang for the
buck and geez well
we're gonna you just have to be able to
animate that in two weeks
it says how can we manage to change the
operating procedures in a way that we
can
completely revolutionize the way we make
movies so that this is all doable
because it's not just it's not just that
we have to do it for this picture we
have to do it for two more pictures
and also if this picture works then
everybody also want it done for their
picture
and what are we going to do you know i
mean nobody can afford to do it at these
prices so
except george hello
dude i'm so fucking happy
this is just it's brilliant absol it's
so
i'm so happy george is so happy it's
just
it's just fantastic
oh it's listen i had uh i saw liam on
sunday
in prague and and i told him we were
getting closer and closer and he was so
thrilled
i mean really really happy we all are
it's gonna be fantastic though i mean
it's gonna be a great movie it's going
to be a lot of fun
but it's also i think going to be so
worthwhile this is my daughter
how are you hello my son chet all right
jack
jamie hi how are you all right your name
is
just like yours are we ready
are we sure that this isn't a terrible
mistake are you scared to death oh no
i'm really looking forward to it i love
you
this is the biggest one this is the
highest if he decides he wants it longer
then he can wear the wig
okay and play the part
it's thank you see scottish hair really
grows in really thick and tight
the thickest hair in the world
it's nice that it stands up yeah okay
but it shouldn't look like he
has been to a barber shop at all the
most difficult part is to not go too
far just go strange enough yeah that's
the biggest trap people fall into in
these kinds of movies is they just they
go too far
yeah how about that much
that's fine don't get any more though is
it just will it just be brighter the top
part
i sort of think it's better if it's
paraded all the way down in essence it's
a symbol of a learner
it's got to have you know when we wrap
the bottom of it if
we do wrap it we could wrap it actually
in little colored threads it's got
there's got to be some significance in
maybe that rapping
how many years you've where you are on
the training process
well as a rough start i think that's a
good length i do think we should
rehearse some sword fighting and stuff
with and see what happens how far they
we don't want to get in the way nice huh
my name is ahmed
i play jar jar judy's going to be
dressing you ah
we're pursuing the idea of doing the jar
jar body on the set and the head and the
digital that's how they do that soup you
want to walk through this
here is the
sad news well but interesting news at
first glance we might think there's a
large chunk to be saved from
um jar jar in his suit but looking at
all the shots that he's in
um which is 461 the difference
of the approach we would take without a
suit versus doing a suit
is about a million three well a million
saved is a millionaire
and the year is going to be on that too
they don't want to use
that's going to be put through a whole
series of movements
yes i mean the works so that they have
everything they can possibly try to
track
so if the suit gets damaged don't worry
about it
has got a great walk and everything and
when he translated into jar jar it was
great
the thing is though one of the things
that could make this thing the most
special thing in the world is that it is
a pure cg character
but what we're trying to do in the end
is speed up the animation
we have the guy anyway i'm shooting the
guy anyway so if you have the guy in the
suit
it costs you the aggravation of
how does he stand in the suit the wear
and tear in the suit
doesn't look good yeah no i know but
that's all that stuff but what you gain
is that there are moments where he
interacts with humans and everything
which
costs very fast
one of the purposes of this well the
purpose of this test is to see what the
head attachment is really going to be
like and it's been brought up as a
concern
that we may need to have some additional
tracking marks further out because we
have to match the shoulders as well to
actually do that blend
so that as there's some shoulder
movement we need to be replicating that
so that our
blend actually blends so the important
thing to get data on is around the
neckline right here
and potentially around the shoulders too
and when you walk
because now we're gonna be in a wide
figure again you know the sort of loose
arms that kind of
don't have much in them
yeah that's we're just trying to take
care of
this one turn over please
and speed in and squat down
and look around okay i look at the
camera
and you see something oh my gosh
no way
leave me
he's so tall
yeah and you just slow it down
one more with feeling
just be careful because if they turn on
when you're doing this
and they were hardcore dude metal
freaking pipes
darth vader's was lilac it's not
blue right i thought this is always red
and oh red
and the other one the skywalkers was
kind of yeah but it's just off
bad i've been waiting for this for weeks
i've been thinking every morning i'd say
i wonder if it's today i'll get to
choose
no that's nice because those those like
i
and also in terms of length which is
important also isn't it
although the popular belief is that
lance doesn't matter
that's all right yeah how's it with a
little 12 huh
that's all right
could he have chosen darth maul's
what is that about darth vader when he's
a young boy
yeah this is when he's a good boy fun
fact what happens to him
mold hilt and makes windows hills
from episode 1 look very similar
this is it the beginning i can't believe
it
and after this meeting i'll finish
reading how to finish writing the script
i'll start with me i'm rick i'm the
producer hi rick
i'm george i'm responsible for all this
i'm natalie and i'm playing i'm a dog
i'm printed
i'm jake and i'm playing anakin
skywalker mom
i'm home oh
my annie what's this these are all my
friends mom this is jar jar binks and i
enjoyed r2d2
an extremely well put together little
droid without a doubt it saved the ship
as well as our lives
master yoda said i should be mindful of
the future but not at the expense of the
moment be mindful of the living force my
young padawan
yes these junk dealers must have a
weakness of some kind
gambling everything here revolves around
betting on those awful races
promise me you'll train the boy he is
the chosen one
always two there are no more no less
a master and an apprentice but which one
was destroyed
master or the apprentice
this is roll 1b backup duct tape of star
wars the beginning
um this is an hhb portrait
gt thousand uh 48 kilohertz camera
running 24 frames
all right we're going to get that shot
ready now
so you don't need to be standing around
on the platform move off thank you i
mean
you're resetting
good luck everybody now let's kick ass
77 take one
and action everything is going as
planned
the republic will soon be in my control
ready and
yeah so he you know we'll do it when he
comes into here
kind of do her they'll be able to catch
him he won't come that close to him
your majesty there is little chance
the senate will act on
chancellor valorum seems to think there
is hope
the chancellor has little real power he
has been
mired by baseless accusations of
corruption
okay cut that's a wrap thanks very much
first shot tomorrow looks towards the
desk area so
props are actually appreciated the table
tonight yeah you were terrific open the
doors a minute please
see everybody tomorrow
good night night guys thanks
very much all right we're gonna leave
the pinaka one till the end of the day
and uh you know i'm hoping i can really
cut through this scene she's great
she's fantastic and she just it all came
together she was perfect you know
i only had to do two takes she really
had it down
she was great just great and ian
well ian's always great i mean he's he's
reliable
but i didn't have no idea what was going
to happen with her
so what we're doing now is you on this
level have i just grabbed you and
grabbed onto it all right
so you you hit you you fell off there
hit that
rolled over and managed to hold on to it
pull yourself back onto that level and
look as though you're about to do a
superman from there
to here good what we're trying to find
out is the best way to have you actually
bounce yourself
onto their you know graceful jedi knight
move yeah
66 echo take one and b cameras come them
up
is you can actually see that it bounces
on something
okay i mean you can't avoid the bounce
can't we
no yeah
166 echo take five amd cameras
and action three two
one go
and action
right
cameras and
action
i think you have why else would you be
here
i can see there's no fooling you anakin
you mustn't let anyone know we're here
we're on our way to coruscant
the central system in the republic on a
very important mission and it must be
kept secret
perusca cut let's try it again
there's some pieces in there print that
one okay let me try one without
dealing with your food so you just can
focus on your wine
no it's not the food that's a problem
it's really
i'm used to saying kuru skin all right
if you if you mispronounce it it's okay
no everybody will start laughing no no
no no
let's get towards the edge on that line
and it's hard to know exactly what he's
gonna
do do it this is where it all began
funny kind of way
because it's some stuff i feel like an
emotional scene with his mother he was
like right on the button every single
time he did it
you don't quite know what you're gonna
get and it's different every time and
sometimes it's really special so you
don't want to grind it into the ground
play with it okay
george where the hell did all the sand
come from
put his air back in please
can you talk without moving your mouth
too much well just so you keep the jaw
closed
try now uh we are increasing security
on our naboo detention camps fine
try that it looks okay to me okay
first position okay
it is locked off thank you please stand
by
i feel there's more to this my master
the two jedi may be using the queen for
their own purpose the main
things here are we have the walking
hologram generator which will be added
in computer graphics but
it's in front of everybody's walking we
have a matte painting of
feed city to put back there and the
light fixtures on the
wall in the hallway are not what george
wants so we're going to replace them
with something else
when the camera pans over to look out
this archway
we want to have filled that archway full
of tanks and
battle droids so it's a relatively
straightforward shot
it was too hot yesterday they said it
gets hotter than that
yeah this is suicide fortnight
unless you've heard how are you doing
i'm cool
for now just waiting for it to get high
that's about give them shield
part of that you've got to be the most
difficult he won't be here and neither
was the bulbasaur just move in
okay
i think he's getting smaller
turn over 26 jules take two a camera
hey you that'll be seven dragons
well i'd say cut got cut
yeah it's only that whip pan and i guess
if you saw him there then you wouldn't
believe he would have gone for the frog
so i would say no vendor right
i would say no vendor we're gonna widen
up a little bit but i still don't think
you'll see it okay
how are you doing i'm hot i can imagine
but
i'm hot too but i'm cool you know what
i'm saying
i wish i could say the same
135
it's so hot my mother's in new york
she feels it
especially when it's like this you
mustn't take the fun out of it
the only thing we're all suffering here
is actually is the heat
and there's a lot of people who pay to
come to this sort of temperature and
have a holiday so
if you can just uh get people to think
that uh this is a temporary break in
their holiday
for 10 hours or 12 hours then they'll
have a good time
the twin sons
solo sun in this case
we had a big storm last night they were
75 million hour winds
we're not sure the roads are here
they're trying to clean up here on the
location
oh no it's just incredible it's like
four months
work
i mean the main thing here is not to
have panic
and everybody just to be running all
over the place i think we have to
head up little teams of people and work
methodically through it otherwise it'll
be
chaos and people will be just ripping
things up
this is graham this is seriously graham
i think this is gonna take all your
skills
this is what digital technology is for
it's a tool
just wow look at that i know that one's
done
the engine sets look at that no
this is fucking grim yeah we have
anakin these are his engines which play
the most crucial part in the movie
they're split in two which um
doesn't look good and then this is the
the scumbag of the universe and his
engines are completely fucked
yeah this is heartbreaking it is
thank god this beauty's okay though okay
that's amazing that that one is the only
one that really survived yeah it's the
force
the pods are really badly so we're going
to have to really
uh work hard to get those i think that's
going to have to push that right down to
the end of the schedule over
uh and any news on liam's wig
is that all taking place can we win on
this one over yeah rick they're trying
to clean it up here
on the location but um at the moment we
still haven't tracked down liam's beard
check algeria over
he's more for cast than anybody else we
have a charter plane
and they are leaving and that's going to
charter planning nothing's going to stop
us if we have to work on our
rest day we have to work on the rest day
because i don't want them on any level
because of all the chaos and everything
we got off to a late start
hopefully we'll get this next sequence
finished and then we're only about one
shot behind
and then we have to rearrange the
schedule
but uh i think we'll go through this all
right
exact same thing happened in star wars
it's always something
ready thank you so cool
okay you're coming up on staval but the
ball is ahead of you there you see him
he's maneuvering he's flaming somebody
he's
exploded somebody in front of you coming
alongside him jake
he's on your left now look at him you're
going to beat him jake
but he's not going to play
okay jake lloyd is finished
thank you
ahmed doing a little action here so we
could test how well the head replacement
thing would work
here are two different approaches bottom
of course head replacement
top is a fully animated feature as it
turns out
the fully animated one was actually
about half the man hours of the head
replacement
so we spent a hundred thousand dollars
on that suit that we didn't need to
spend
well but the suit is actually extremely
useful for uh
you know all the time while they were
working on that we're looking at okay
we're gonna get the shadow to match the
this one better and this was actually
really great lighting
and performance reference back at ilm
we do have a lot of people there who are
available and ready to do shots
i'd like to get started even if there's
a good chance that some of those shots
are going to change
uh still i think we'll have learned
something
it's the last day of principal
photography
all right
unbelievable 13 weeks later
with all the prop shooting and the post
productions will be almost
uh three years in the making the first
two stages have gone remarkably well
it's just whether or not
this third one the most difficult one
but i think everybody's
in the right frame of mind
impossible nothing can get through us to
you
bye
thank you very much
yeah a lot of these uh diagonals are
really helping
and i put like a little uh yeah that
flatter area in there that gives a lot
come down so how many of these like
backgrounds are
there like are there like well
a million of them are cause we're going
to all the trouble of making this a
completely computer generated
environment for
hundreds of shots should be something
that we can't see
in the real world don't be afraid to uh
to push it a bit
okay technically there are quite a
number of things that have never been
attempted before
things that that were just not possible
still aren't possible we're still
working on them
will there be any really heavy stuff in
this loud stuff yeah probably yes
okay yeah yeah yeah it should be loud
but you could put a little laugh on the
end of that one
yeah yeah sb 309 310
take two yokoto banza
all right that was good we'll try one
more with a little bit more
a little bit more anger
yeah sb 309 310 take three
yokoto banta pudu
okay that's good for me okay
that looks good it's good okay i think
we can push it a little further
and yeah that's it for me so this is uh
for the first view of these droids
getting hit
now we're wondering on this shot this is
incomplete this does not have lasers and
stuff in it yet
the catapult balls they get thrown yeah
like what do they do when they hit the
ground i think they should be able to
make water balloons they should sort of
splatter when they hit
are they going to leave a trail behind
them then i'm glowing
the things black when it hits like a
water balloon but then the pieces of it
continue to go forward like it does here
and knock people over
and uh you know a big globs of it okay
it's like
it's like vaseline in the water balloon
one of the things that we wanted to
discuss this is the animag for this
sequence and we've started blocking in
the actual
footage now so just to revisit what this
action currently is
the question is like this hallway shot
here primarily
and just the hallways in general just
making sure that those are
working for you yeah that looks good all
right great
so this was my selection
now i didn't know if you wanted to make
this shot longer to accept that
that select of yours well do we have a
tighter select
it's funny enough that's tighter already
i'll look at some other alternatives
why don't we try to take the oh for this
and the big boomers from the other one
okay
i think it's gonna be better i agree
well let me see that podcasting the one
where everybody's sitting down
i had an idea how we'd do it but it's
turned out to be a little more difficult
than i thought but
i'll show you where it's going
that's going to be tricky maybe create a
shrunk
so what i want to do is well let's just
we'll leave this for the time being and
we'll create this other shot and then if
this other shot works
we'll come back to this shot take panaka
slip him out of sync so he doesn't start
to move
so he's just standing there okay
so see panaka's starting to move in this
shot
so we split him out and start him here
we'll split it right
in front of the pilot there just go
forward
this is cyber directing
right yeah or 3d editing yeah
there's not enough power to get us to
chorus hunt the hyperdrive is leaking
we'll have to land somewhere and refuel
and repair this ship yeah
master all right that's better we got
our piece picked up a little bit here
i think i may finish it off with mark
then i'll come back and we'll do the
certificate okay place right after one
yeah i'd say two o'clock
okay okay
well maybe you got what you wanted there
you got the you got the jar george i'm
directing here in the editing room
sequence which is
what he loves to do just change the
actors performances
you know we've gotten into that it's
gotten in with
the last two weeks a habit of not taking
anything for granted if we can split one
actor from one take
uh and put him you know resyncing with
everybody else we're doing lots of that
that's to me i mean it's fantastic you
can do that but it's opening up a whole
world of
you know i mean that just multiplies
the number of decisions that you can
make in a cut normally you reject whole
shots
because one thing is wrong but now you
can
keep the good things in that shot and
just throw away the bad
thing on which house are you gonna pay
for all of this
i like what you're doing in your face
definitely you got the personality in
there and the blinks and
there's something right now what as we
just
discussed before is really he's happy he
thinks he's got this guy and he's going
to nail him for the full price
um so this is where he's like so you
want to give me the big pile of money
uh so when he says uh so how are you
gonna pay for all this
i think we can even bring him up uh a
little closer to camera just float him a
little bit more
so we get him a little bit and he's all
smiles public credits
republicans are no good out here i need
something more real
i don't know tim's this is looking great
so yeah i can see you worked on the lip
sync yeah i worked on the lipstick
the stain in his face is really great
yeah i was i was thinking maybe i could
uh
scrunch it up a little more like he's
he's kind of like
yeah public credit yeah yeah i think you
can afford to do that okay
around that way
george the beginning and the end of this
is raw yeah
okay so something i'm going blind so you
know some of this
confer on you the level of jedi knight
the council does
but agree with your taking this boy as
your padawan learner
i do not quite believed in him
i believe in qui-gon now let's just
change it let's go in the hands
yeah i acting wise i'm not showing you
right meanwhile i'm saving
but now what i'll do is i'll show you
the center of the begin the
things were definitely changing you
don't need me
for god's sake we'll always need you
that's great that smells true
semi qui-gon's defiance i sense and you
need that we do not
agree with you the council does
your apprentice young skywalker will be
you know we're never going to be titanic
nobody can i don't think that's it can
you explain that
nobody can it's one of those things it
just happens it's like what star wars
did when i first did it
it just defies reality you just never
know on these things
i did a more american graffiti made 10
cents
failed miserably
you can you can't do it you can't
destroy these things
it is possible
10 cents um we have about 350 finished
outs now
we're uh close to a third probably
learned so much a long way
we're pretty sure it's anakin's head and
his uh shoulders yeah
on here right such a bad storyboard
that's yeah all right so that's
that's the head right there yeah so um
i'll just go through the schedule
13 has been bumped to
do next week 9 25.
dev 290 do 10 20. all those front views
uh
george's comment the other day was that
whenever we cut to anakin like you know
in these
close-up shots you know yeah it's like
like this on them
and uh it's a ball that's always going
back to a wide shot
tt db i have scheduled starting 9 28
going high-res tend to do 10-9 this is
one that was supposed to be uh
for the 10-20 so
i'm going to try and push that forward
well i don't think we can do that if i
tend to because uh i think we're ready
to do the queen ship and all its landing
gears without any uh
reference to the model okay because when
the model's not built until
week in october right so john we really
need to know
yeah whether you have everything you
need or whether you need more
the comp is getting you know more and
more complete and yet there were no
creatures in there so i just don't want
to be surprised when
we need to what i'm most concerned about
is the screen left side of the image
whether you need some creatures back
there that we haven't provided aha341a
yeah we're going to get jar jar all done
real soon now
supposed to be a little tight okay gonna
be okay all right
that looks good all right you're suited
up
ready ready for it okay everyone let's
start with a brief warm-up
we're gonna start with a stretch if we
can just use your performance there's no
need to keyframe animate it where you're
even your character's just sort of
standing in the background you do these
great things where you're you're moving
and your hands are like that
if we can capture that then we don't
have to animate them we can just take
those and stick those into different
scenes
george pioneer should i start this just
by walking this way
yeah mostly it's a slow realization of
what you got
connected to yeah first it's kind of an
annoying like you stepped in dog
and then you realize what it is and then
you try to get away from it right you
try to run over here
i think the the cannon itself is not
moving very far
sw one shot
and action
all right good okay jeffy you ready i'm
to be
operating which vibrates the whole thing
right so when we start the shot this
should be going
or we're shaking we just need like two
or three seconds of of it doing that
before
bang for the for the charge and roll
camera
now there's we're getting the big shake
here why is it working but
it's fine different ways everybody ready
to go otherwise yeah i want to
try the handshake approach
we've got a little bit of work to do
ahead of us yeah i know
everybody here everybody awake
all right let's do it all right
that's a little disjointed seems like a
lot of short scenes
it's bold in terms of jerking people
around but
i may have gone too far in a few places
in a space of about 90 seconds you know
you go from
lamenting the death of you know a hero
to
escape to slightly comedic with jar jar
you know to anakin returning with his
little
kind of tag it's a lot and
you know it's it really and it's a very
short time
uh buckles the mind i mean i've thought
about this quite a bit and the tricky
part is
you almost can't take any of those
pieces out of there now
because each one kind of yeah it takes
you to the next place and you can't you
can't
jump no i don't know where you are
you think about the very first star wars
sitting in there yeah no i know it
starts opening
you don't know what the hell i do a
particular kind of movie which this is
consistent but it is a very hard movie
to follow and at the same time i've done
it
a little more extremely than i've ever
done in the past it's stylistically
designed to be that way and you can't
undo that
but we can diminish the effects of it we
can slow it down a little bit so that
if it's intense for us yeah we don't
know what i'm teaching you know a
regular person is going to go nuts
we'll start cracking again tomorrow
overall it's working well if you just
pull some of this real rich oranges
right up in here
and let's just concentrate on the
wrinkles to me just you give it the
squint test
and it's the contrast between the eye
and the lid is it's a really high
contrast
actually looks really nice so does that
mean changing the model or uh
is that the talus we're running through
we're close enough to the wall there's
not much we can do to change the talus
where's number two going dude number two
just poke it up through the cockpit
go ahead
all right see you guys tomorrow all
right sean hi john
on the pod race we're doing an entire
10-minute sequence
all you're seeing are completely
computer-generated landscapes
and it's kind of a difficult thing to do
as it is in the picture there's always
something you're looking at in the
foreground it's not really
about the background so
but uh i've heard this speech before
well
well no no but i mean i i think that the
language
so anyway just so you see what uh
what the shots feel like with something
in there even though what's in there is
pretty
temporary
looks good to me
i've seen enough tests now that i'm
comfortable that that's going to work
pods look good well they'll they'll be
better in their final forms
remember in the end john you're not
looking at the background
you're not watching the pods you're
listening to the music
yeah because there's a lot of clashing
and banging and
then been burdened there yeah so
if we're going between takes and stuff
it'll be hidden pretty well the only
concern that i think
that one might have is that you may want
a version without the chorus but i don't
know if you
even want to think of contemplation i
love the course it gives it that
churchy yeah well and i think it's going
to work
i mean you didn't realize this but it
really goes into the third film
very well and it's it's i think it'll be
an important thing to reprise
i mean it has a that definitely has the
the quality
of the inevitable fate of doom
you know with larger hands at work
chorus um one second sean
we have pitch please
and quiet with the pages thirty three
one
two three
and see if we can have the sound less
disturbed by
still improved intonation you'll hear a
lot of beating in that
i will take it please
6m7 new take 106.
it's the little old lady reel but yeah
this is where there's the big knock at
the projection
with the umbrella handle young man what
do you think you're doing up there
you're going to blast orders out
like i think it could be reasonably
extreme you know it goes from even the
pass by shots go from low sound
to loudest sound you ever heard to no
sound within the sound
well see what you can do with it and see
what happens ready set here
jurors ready kind of starts quietly
um
it's almost like this bulbasaur should
be making go up and down but it should
always be there now it's
there when you see it it's not there
when you don't you want to build that
tension
of the fact that it's right on his tail
there
and if you don't hear it you don't
really get the sense that it's right
there all the time and it's going to eat
him up
yeah you know and if anything like that
that giant sound should be getting
bigger and bigger during the whole thing
as he's
you know struggling to stay ahead of him
it's a nice rhythm because that's the
thing that you're afraid of is the fact
that that guy's just gonna push him
yeah you know the engine's gonna come
right over and right into his head
come a long way over the last two years
that little sequence is not a little
sequence
all right get out your lightsabers you
just may have noticed that
star wars the latest episode opens
nationally at midnight tonight the hype
surrounding this movie has been
overwhelming now the question is will it
deliver we're about to open the doors
here in just a few minutes
and people are revved to 2.2 million
americans from new york
it's like 1977. i haven't felt this
since 1977.
my people
this is fucking awesome
i remember being nine years old
seeing the phantom menace just like that
indescribable feeling
love watching there's just something so
special about watching these
that feels so magical and and really
brings back the nostalgia of what it was
like during that time
and it was only 21 years ago you know um
when episode one came out
it's always just such a trip and i've
never actually seen a full
documentary here of making episode one
so a lot of it was really special
and new for me so i'm glad you guys
could join me on that
on to the next one
