I know what you mean about the slow-motion because of the framerate. Here, I'll show you exactly what I had in mind:
You see how the battle is wrapped up? Everything becomes choppy and the music starts to play? You could do it just like that, except with Pelennor Fields and the echos of "Red fell the dew in rammas-echor...". If it doesn't work, you can still play the clips in regular motion, but have it slowly darken then eventually fade to black. Then, cut to Pippin looking for Merry at night or something.
What I had in mind for the Army of the Dead scene is not to cut them. You take the shots where they are in the back of the scene. Where you can only see the army if you have to focus on the background. In after effects, select that portion of the shot and color correct it to remove the green. Not remove them from the shot, just colour that portion of the shot differently. Maybe it isn't possible though, I suppose you know better than I anyway.
As for not showing them, you could always use that horrible scene from the EE where they board the ships. If you don't end up showing them, worst comes to worst, people can assume that they didn't listen to Aragorn or you could simply leave it to the imagination with the scene of the king telling Aragorn "we will fight".
You can second me as someone who really didn't like Elrond showing up in the Palantir. It felt really impossible. There's a lot of good stuff coming from Ian Mckellen's voicework in the LOTR video game that could be used. Or you could even use some of Elrond's lines to Aragorn in their meeting as part of Legolas explaining the Paths of the Dead.
For TTT, as I told you by pm, I really loved a lot fo the character restructuring that you've done (the Theoden edits for example was masterful. So, I'm only going to provide criticism:
The scene of Faramir meditating works, but it comes out of nowhere. You have to frame it by showing Faramir at the beginning so you understand what is going on. The clip of Denethor looking at Faramir and saying "a chance to show his quality" works really well and feels like he's talking straight to us in a dream. Maybe put that at the start right after seeing the shot of Faramir meditating.
Also, some of the effects shots in Osgiliath didn't quite work which is surprising considering how good your rotoscoping work was in ROTK.
You see how the battle is wrapped up? Everything becomes choppy and the music starts to play? You could do it just like that, except with Pelennor Fields and the echos of "Red fell the dew in rammas-echor...". If it doesn't work, you can still play the clips in regular motion, but have it slowly darken then eventually fade to black. Then, cut to Pippin looking for Merry at night or something.
What I had in mind for the Army of the Dead scene is not to cut them. You take the shots where they are in the back of the scene. Where you can only see the army if you have to focus on the background. In after effects, select that portion of the shot and color correct it to remove the green. Not remove them from the shot, just colour that portion of the shot differently. Maybe it isn't possible though, I suppose you know better than I anyway.
As for not showing them, you could always use that horrible scene from the EE where they board the ships. If you don't end up showing them, worst comes to worst, people can assume that they didn't listen to Aragorn or you could simply leave it to the imagination with the scene of the king telling Aragorn "we will fight".
You can second me as someone who really didn't like Elrond showing up in the Palantir. It felt really impossible. There's a lot of good stuff coming from Ian Mckellen's voicework in the LOTR video game that could be used. Or you could even use some of Elrond's lines to Aragorn in their meeting as part of Legolas explaining the Paths of the Dead.
For TTT, as I told you by pm, I really loved a lot fo the character restructuring that you've done (the Theoden edits for example was masterful. So, I'm only going to provide criticism:
The scene of Faramir meditating works, but it comes out of nowhere. You have to frame it by showing Faramir at the beginning so you understand what is going on. The clip of Denethor looking at Faramir and saying "a chance to show his quality" works really well and feels like he's talking straight to us in a dream. Maybe put that at the start right after seeing the shot of Faramir meditating.
Also, some of the effects shots in Osgiliath didn't quite work which is surprising considering how good your rotoscoping work was in ROTK.