Thursday, 11 March 2010

Focus on Film Editing: Analysis Star Wars Original & Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith Episode III

We have just watched two Star Wars films: the original Star Wars and the Revenge of the Sith Episode III. The first trailer that we saw was the original Star Wars that didn’t bring out a great impact on me than the other trailer. I guess this happened because it didn’t bring out a great impact to the screen, didn’t have excitement. With the other trailer it had a greater impact on me because it showed the sense of adventure of sci-fi, the excitement of know what’s going to happen next in the next shot and the way it just kept you alive and awake with the adventure.The pace of the original Star Wars was slow and dull with the same voice telling the story in a monotone voice, which kept on going with no enthusiastic of the film. If they where suppose to find a narrator then they should’ve found someone that had a little bit of excitement in their voice while telling the story.

The pace of the Revenge of the Sith Episode III was a faster pace than the other. This is because it showed more shots of the film; which kept you excited and enthusiastic in the trailer and how it’s shot. One character, Chancellor Palpatine / Darth Sidious, played by Ian McDiarmid has the main voice part in the whole trailer and the storyline is mainly based on this Chancellor Palpatine. There is a lot of dark lighting involved to the trailer because from the title alone it looks like a dark film with lots of action and sci-fi elements in it. The sound layers in the film are more of what you see in sci-fi movies such as iRobot. They both have the lazar effect based on the speed ships/spaceships in the galaxies (which is herd in the beginning of the trailer). The sound has a soft orchestra in the background with Ian McDiarmid deep voice at the beginning of the trailer. The other characters voices seem softer and more natural than his voice. With lazars and booming of blowing up of spaceships and things outside of the galaxy makes it an adventure, sci-fi film.

As you can tell my favourite would have to be the second trailer; Revenge of the Sith Episode III because it got me more interesting into the movie then the first one. More colours advance special effects than back then and everything has changed because of the technology of effects and graphics. Everything that we know in the 21st Century about using computers is all set in stone in the second trailer.

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