The one that comes to mind for me is the final battle.
The changes I would've made are a mixture of me loving cheesy Hollywood moments, as well as relatively realistic moments.
I would have the Normany burst through the relay first, as it happened in the scene... but delay the arrival of the rest of the fleet for a few more seconds. In the scene they follow up almost instantly. Nono! Have her drift alone for a bit. And then... bam, ships pour out and block the background!
Also, I would stretch it for much longer. When I'd skip to Earth, it would be with the fleet still pouring out of the relay. Like an endless wave. In the original scene you don't feel as if it's too massive. They stop 'jumping' out of the relay pretty quickly. This would've probably been difficult due to budget, but, I'm imagining tens of thousands of ships just pouring out. An unending line (or at least it would seem to be).
Next. As much as I like Shepard, I'll cut his script a bit shorter here. Beyond being the symbolic spearhead of the navy, he won't have much to do in my movie. He won'tt be handing out commands to anyone, honestly. Also, he won't be standing next to Joker. He'll be in the CIC, and instead of the galaxy map there'll be a damn fine hologram (hologram? holograph?) of his area of the battle.
I liked how in the final scene, when the Normany is trying to evade the beam, Joker's hands are flying all around frantically to operate the ship. So I'm imagining Shepard leaning over his battle-map, with the crew in their positions all doing the same. It should be frantic! Chaos!
Maybe at that point I'll do a quick jump to other ships to show how each Admiral and rear-admiral and so forth hand out orders down the hierarchy, each one in his own CIC with madness all around them.
One thing I'm unsure about is whether to include sound once my camera jumps away from the CIC to the battlefield itself. From my understand there shouldn't be any sound at all. But from a cinematic point of view, that might be a bit boring. I don't know, maybe. Or perhaps mute the battle-sounds completey, and just play the awesome soundtrack.
On, and I'm also not sure about what I would've done with the formation. Being in space and all, there's a lot of freedom. Maybe I would've changed it so that the fleet would split into three: two sections would engage in the space battle, one would enter the atmosphere and engage the forces in London. And in the space battle, the two parts of the fleet wouldn't attack head-on facing earth (collateral damage!), but one from "above", the other from the "side" (as much as directions are relevant in space). Imagine an "L" basically.
Not necessarily beacuse it's "smarter" (what the hell do I know?), but I just think it'll be cooler. Mainly the fleet that enters earth - image doing the final mission while seeing an aerial battle taking place above you. Besides, it seems better when a ship is trying to blow up a Reaper, rather than an infantry battallion.
Any other moments you would direct differently? And please, no dry sarcastic comments about 'the ending', 'the series' and so forth. This isn't meant to be (yet another) hate thread. Just indulging the imagination.
Modifié par EliHarel, 11 janvier 2014 - 03:50 .
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