Star Wars : Journal of the Whills : Dantooine (part 001)

[adamrodriguez66]

"And in time of greatest despair there shall come a savior and he shall be known as: THE SON OF THE SUN" ("Journal of the Whills," 3:12)

[adamrodriguez66]

Its the name of the book George Lucas' first Star Wars Film was derived from. As it says so at the beginning of the fourth draft of the script which was used for the movie. Star Wars A New Hope

i.e. STAR WARS Episode IV A New Hope From the JOURNAL OF THE WHILLS by George Lucas Revised Fourth Draft January 15, 1976 LUCASFILM LTD.

[smellevision]

[part 1]

Dear TacoDroid A2295635,

Here's how to do a Star Wars Opening Titles Sequence: First you search the web for a nice picture of the stars. A NASA or Planetarium Website usually has good ones. Next you open up Windows Movie Maker. Once the Movie Maker is finished opening, you put the pointer to the word File near the top lefthand corner. The pulldown menu appears. Click on Import Into Collections and then use the dialog box to select the picture of the stars that you already saved.

[smellevision]

[part 2]

When the picture is in your Windows Movie Maker Collections it will appear in the My Collections area. Near the bottom of the page there is a blue strip that looks like movie film. Click the star picture and drag it to the movie film. That then becomes your movie timeline. Only, the picture is only going to be shown for five seconds. You need to stretch out the time until it lasts two minutes. You do this by grabbing the right side of the box and stretching it through the blue strip.

[smellevision]

[part 3]

Stretch the box with the timeline image until the time markers above it read two minutes (0:02:00.00). Stop dragging and let go. Now go to the top of the page and click the word TASKS. In the Tasks area on the left you will see a list of things to do. Click "Make titles or credits". Then Click on "Add title on selected clip in the timeline". You will then see a page called Add Text For Title. You place your text into the text box the way you want it to come out.

[smellevision]

[part 4]

When you are finished with the text, you will see a sentence that says "Change Title Animation". Click that. It will bring up a list of all sorts of ways to display text in front of your star picture. You are looking for "Scroll, Perspective". When you find it, click it, and then watch the result on the Windows Movie Maker Preview Screen on the right side. Now you have to change the text font and color.

[smellevision]

[part 5]

Click "Change the text font and color. You will see a Capital "A" on top of an underline. Click it. It brings up a menu with many color samples. Near the top lefthand corner you will see 2 orange boxes with 2 yellow boxes next to them. Click the yellow box that is under the yellow box on the top line. This is the Star Wars Yellow Color (or as close as you can get with Windows Movie Maker). Next, you change the Font. Above the letter "A" you will see a line marked "Font".

[smellevision]

[part 6]

Click the down arrow in the box at the end of the line. This brings up a list of many types of letter styles. You are looking for "AvantGarde Bk Bt". Scroll through the list and when you find it, click it. Then click the letter "B" right next to it to make the letters Bold. Run the results through the preview screen a few times to make sure everything came out well. When you're satisfied click "Done, add title to movie". Then click the save icon near the top of the page to save it.

[A2295635]

Thank you very much.

I made it!..

Thanks a lot again. Bye!

[ig521987]

2nd part:

Also, considering the plot you're proposing. What would be the conflict on the movie? Will there even be one?

Finally, there is a picture of the galaxy... it's right there at the end of the Empire Strikes Back when they're aboard the medical frigate.

[smellevision]

[part 1]

Uh, . . . not really. If that really was "The Galaxy" at the end of The Empire Strikes Back, then why was there a Star Field behind it? If the Medical Frigate was traveling "Outside The Galaxy", there would have been no stars anywhere around there. You would have only seen other Galaxies. Also, the so-called "Galaxy" was swirling around, showing 500 Million Years of movement in two or three seconds. Galaxies just don't move like this, but Primordial Solar System Dust Clouds DO!

[A2295635]

Hi there smellevision,

Would you please tell me How can I create a video with the same star wars scrolling text that you used on your video?

Thank you very much.

[smellevision]

Done. Please go back to the "Journal of the Whills" video page and comments to see the instructions.

smellevision.

[smellevision]

[part 2]

In Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Obi Wan Kenobi placed his Memory Marble on the pedestal and the room exploded with a mass of bright little lights which sort of looked like 1970's Disco. If the Galaxy at the end of Episode V was "The Galaxy" then Obi Wan's Galaxy Map would have had more of a shape to it, and you could have seen where the Galactic Arms were. Since there were none on Kenobi's Map, then we are dealing with a Galaxy that has no Galactic Arms the way ours does.

[smellevision]

[part 3]

If you look at the picture of "My Galaxy" (which, by the way is M104, The "Sombrero" Galaxy), and you follow the hook at the bottom of the letter J in Journal it will lead you to a bright white speck which is the approximate location of the Kamino System that Obi Wan was looking for.

[smellevision]

[part 4]

As for the story's conflict: Traditionally, Star Wars Films follow the opening crawl with a tilt down to a spaceship traveling in space. As you can see, my story starts well OUTSIDE of the Galaxy. What is there out there to tilt down to? What kind of ship could be out that far from the center of the Galaxy? That next shot is going to cost me a few hundred dollars even with 3D modeling and using Photoshop. I hope I can figure out how to get the money for the next shot.

[smellevision]

[part 5]

I don't have all the time or money you would need to catch up on all the doings of the Solo Family, and all the Empire Loyalists, and the new Jedi Knights, and all those gangs of rouge Pirates and Bounty Hunters which keep making life hard for Jedi Master Skywalker. So, I'm just going off to the side and staying away from Coruscant and the action in the Galactic Core Worlds and setting it just off the beaten path.

[smellevision]

[part 6]

My story follows a Jedi Archivist/Librarian who has been sent to inspect a new Galactive Archive on Dantooine. Or so that is what everyone has been led to believe. It soon becomes clear that this person has an alternative objective. Just what this person's real mission is then becomes the focus of the story.

WARNING: If you hate Ewoks, Gungans, Calimari, and Numbs, you're going to hate this since it's kind of an "Ewok Adventure" type story.

[LordGazza123]

the title if from he star wars radio drama is it not

[ig521987]

to be completely honest, I don't think your plot would work.

The whole thing of changing the name to Journal of the Whills makes little sense to me. Specially when the saga is continued through books and novels and it is still called "Star Wars". Not to mention the fact that, although Anakin dies little has that to do with restoring peace and order in the galaxy. Wars continue and so does the empire, and even new enemies of the Republic rise.

[WoodenLogProductions]

bab

[smellevision]

bab: Arabic word meaning Gate. Unfamiliar with term.