Editing: How Star Wars was saved in the edit

How Star Wars was saved in the edit

RocketJump – 18m 24s  (Dec 2017)

A video essay exploring how Star Wars’ editors recut and rearranged Star Wars: A New Hope to create the cinematic classic it became.

Check out more essays at http://youtube.com/rjfilmschool

Written by David Welch (@watsonwelch)

Narrated and Edited by Joey Scoma (@joey2meals)

References:

Deleted Magic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2r4N…

Deleted Scenes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f00Ik…

Harmy’s Star Wars: Despecialized Edition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHfLX…

Empire of Dreams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw_Ve…