Christopher Montoya: Star Wars The Artifact

In my first semester at the Academy, I was able to make three films. This is my favorite just because I'm a Star Wars geek. It was shot 16mm on a Bolex and edited on a flatbed. This is probably some of the most fun I've ever had editing, actually physically editing real film.
It was my final project for my Cine 1 class and was to be projected to the class and instructor on one of the last two days of the class. I wanted something for my audience to hear other than the sound of the projector rolling. So I filmed the final cut of the movie off of the wall with my mini DV camera so I could put it into final cut pro to sync some music and effects to it, burn a CD and play it along side the movie. I got a great response for the class and the instructor, who told me that it was "F-ING BAD ASS!"
I taped the movie off of the wall just to have a visual reference for the SFX and music cues. I never intended it to be used as a final film, so I used whatever projector the lab had available. The projector was not one of the ones made to handle the spliced film, so that's why the film jumps on many of the cuts. I had so much fun making this movie that I kept going with it in FCP and added colored sabers, an opening scroll, and credits.
I had my actor do a voice over of the scroll since I wouldn't have a visual one for the audience to read when I showed the film in class. I originally kept the voice over on the FCP edit because the original opening scroll was done in FCP2 and looked terrible. Now that I am putting the film on the tube, I took the opportunity to redo the scroll in FCPX. At one point when the film was on miniDV, a few seconds of the credits got recorded over. So I redid those as well. I also made it widescreen and exported in HD, so this is a special edition :) Enjoy!