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Jumper - Recut

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New title card, still a work in progress, it's not lined up or centred properly but it's starting to look better:

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I would like to make a suggestion: please remove te voiceover if you can. It's very irritating in the film and largely goes over things the viewer can easily infer.
 

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I guess you'll be pleased to find out that I've already done that! :-D:p
 

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Alright people, I've finished my first cut and have watched it with other people, and got some great input! I still have many little changes and some things to fix when it comes to audio but the movie is way better now! I'd like to share my intro (I haven't finished the title card, it is low-res and is really long in this video, this is not the final product, just some progress) :
[video=youtube_share;8XQUsMLuKOA]
 

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I think this is a really good cold open, completely in-medias-res. Great job.

But I have to wonder if maybe it's giving away the whole mystery aspect of the film a little too soon.

That is, it's a tradition to start off fantasy/sci-fi films with these teases that give away some of the magic and then recontextualize it something like 30 mins. later.

Have you considred maybe starting off Jumper without giving away any genre elements until Hayden Christensen's first visible jump occurs on-screen? Theoretically, you could cut this scene entirely then or have it appear once more later in the picture.
 

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Interesting idea, but honestly the scene doesn't work anywhere else in the film and serves as a better introduction to the villain, in my edit, the protagonist's first jumps are in the first five minutes or less of the movie, so there isn't exactly much of a mystery
 

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Smithers said:
Interesting idea, but honestly the scene doesn't work anywhere else in the film and serves as a better introduction to the villain, in my edit, the protagonist's first jumps are in the first five minutes or less of the movie, so there isn't exactly much of a mystery

Does your version include the 15-year old Christensen discovering his powers still at all?

While I agree that it might give a great intro to the villain, I feel doing this gives the audience a lot more information initially than to its main character. But that's definitely more a preference issue.
 

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Yeah his origin story has been cut down significantly now, to about 7 minutes long

I like my intro though, and I don't feel that there is any mystery or information to be preserved here
 

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Smithers said:
Yeah his origin story has been cut down significantly now, to about 7 minutes long

I like my intro though, and I don't feel that there is any mystery or information to be preserved here

I got it. And it is, like I said, a great cold open.
 

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I like the thinner letters. Reminds me of the Terminator font, btw.

Will you be making a subtitle to designate this as a fancut as well?
 

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Huh, yeah it kinda does look like terminator, here's the subtitled version, forgot to add it earlier:
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Nice! Will the sub fade in a few secs after the title or show up with it immediately?
 

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The subtitle will fade in within a few seconds
 

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Because I like tedious questions about unimportant things.
 

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Neglify said:
Because I like tedious questions about unimportant things.

Can you please clarify - is that a jab at my earlier questions?
 

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Nah, it's an extension of your question. I saw the opportunity to make a stupid joke and I took it.
 
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