Editing in Star Wars( Aka Screen wipes)

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Editing in Star Wars( Aka Screen wipes)

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It's quite an interesting video considering more and more SW films aren't going to have any Lucas involvement. Screen wipes was a very distinctive element in all 6 SW films, and it's something that we don't really see in TFA.

I wonder if there will be any editors or directors that wished to reintroduce this element in their SW movies.
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I'm not one to "defend" TFA, but there's plenty of screen wipes in TFA of different kinds (from "ordinary" to right-to-left, to diagonal wipes to bar wipes). I'm not sure about the stand-alones, but screen wipes are a part of SW and I think the directors/editors will continue to use them (at least for the Saga movies).
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Mange wrote:I'm not one to "defend" TFA, but there's plenty of screen wipes in TFA of different kinds (from "ordinary" to right-to-left, to diagonal wipes to bar wipes). I'm not sure about the stand-alones, but screen wipes are a part of SW and I think the directors/editors will continue to use them (at least for the Saga movies).
Though I don't think they have the same sort of focus as they do in ANH, which is a reasonable objection.

Abrams was mostly just emulating without understanding. While there were a few nice bits, it was overall not even as good as the prequels.
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