hey everyone how are you doing welcome back to another video so sit back and
relax because i have recorded all the documentaries there's 12 parts
to them as you can see and i've chopped them up into finely
little tight pieces uh for your concise viewing
pleasure and then i'll also upload the full
long one because i know some of you say that you like the immersion with those
these ones are nice and concise for you so there's 12 parts to this series
they're all very interesting you may have already seen some i've uploaded a
day or two ago but um yeah i'm gonna co i'm gonna
include i think the first one two three in this one so just sit
back relax this is this is 1994 when george lucas
first started filming his behind the scenes this is how
far he thinks ahead first starts filming his behind the scenes
for when he was gonna write episode one for the first time
and you'll see it it's really cool i'm not gonna talk anymore
enjoy have an awesome day love you this is the first of november 1994.
today is my first day of writing the new star wars series
took my kids to school this morning my oldest daughter was sick all night i got
no sleep whatsoever
this is my life this is the hole i live in the cave i hibernated
i have beautiful pristine yellow tablets ready to go nice fresh black
pencils
i'm all set all i need is an idea
the original notes in the original outline are uh 15 pages
this whole early part was written to set up
the films that were made i had to sort of figure out who everybody was where
they came from how they got got to be where they
were and what the dynamic relationships were between everybody
there is drama inherent in it because there is a lot of portrayal a lot of
things like that going on but a lot of the subtleties of the story
and the intricate weaving of themes and everything hasn't
really been done at all this book was put together when i was um
actually i was writing i think i wrote graffiti in this book actually oh
graffiti and all the star wars in this book
it's great to be able to sit by myself and just
be able to do this it's like a real luxury actually
and you know i don't feel a lot of pressure it's kind of fun i'm
getting to do a lot of research which i love to do
and i'm getting a chance to think
how how good is that
i get to do a lot of things now that i couldn't do before create things that
weren't possible to create before i was always
and i will be on this but i've always been sort of at the limit of what
is possible in terms of storytelling things have advanced so far in the last
20 years in terms of your ability to portray things on the screen that were
just literally impossible before
i i think about scenes all the time and uh you know they come in a mosaic and
then eventually all the pieces come together
and then there'll be some missing ones and then i have to sort of sit down and
really work hard to get from point a to point b
my oldest daughter was born during jedi since then i slowed down quite a bit and
i focused more on my family this is going to be the first time i go
back and try to do a movie of this scale with this much intensity starts with me
sitting here doodling in my little binder but it ends
up with a couple thousand people working together in a very very
intense emotional creative way to pull it off
and you know it goes from you know my nannies to the producers
to the camera crews uh to ilm i mean it's all over here it's just a
dream it's just a kind of a a thing that i can sit here and do and
say wouldn't it be great if and then pounding that into reality
takes a huge amount of effort
that's so cool so what i found really cool about that is that's actually the
first time that george sat down in 1994 and i'd
never seen that piece of footage before i don't think i've ever seen the web
documentaries from episode one because as i said i had the dvd version
of uh the german version and it didn't come
with a bonus disc so the first time i'm seeing this with you
guys is i'm watching this is the first time i've
seen this with you guys the interesting part for me is you know
i started all by myself and then uh almost immediately within
about three or four months of starting to write the scripts
i brought in doug and a few of the other designers
and then we you know there's a little group and then we started building that
little group that's the design group from the attic
and um we've worked for two and a half years
together and what i've done is you know over those two and a half
years spent huge amounts of time uh approving
changing and finalizing designs for things
uh you know thousands of things
fine art was very important especially to the queen's people and they really
appreciate it you can tell in their architecture the sculpture and their
clothing and so forth and in episode one that element
naturally carries over to their hardware or their vehicles
i grew up on certain types of science fiction films i was a big science
fiction fanatic as a kid
but when i saw star wars i was really blown away but i was actually kind of
like hmm there are certain things that i
didn't like about it but the great thing was i went home and
i kind of drew you know my version of the x-wing
i'd make this cockpit about a quarter of the size that it is
i'd stick it back here and then i take the engine part and i
cut this part off right here i started with a staff of two and we
were given a huge list of vehicles creatures environments and
whatnot design and it was just a matter of sitting down
and trying to cop your hand you know where to start first and then
how to design something that will live up to the expectations
of everybody that's going to see this film
george is very reactive and he likes to kind of see things and he basically just
said you know i need single person fighters and shuttles and
so forth so just like a small shuttle type thing
don't ask me those technical questions it's neat that's all
my decisions on what is aesthetically pleasing is really hard to
nail down because what i like is obviously going to be different from
what somebody else likes you know it's a matter of getting in
sync with george and i hope that i've kind of gotten in sync
with george on this film for the starfighter um the good guys it
started out very differently because i initially thought that the ships would
be very angular like the x-wing but george wanted to go more towards the
handcrafted look
georgia come in every friday for our weekly meetings and it was very
difficult sometimes because we spent a lot of
time and energy to you know draw beautiful drawings and we put up on the
wall and george will dismiss the designs very
quickly and it took me a while to get used to it
because one of our first couple of meetings i would put up
a wall full of designs and he would look at it literally after 10 seconds there
like this one this one this one
episodes four five and six kind of had the industrial
mentality in terms of spacials were punched out they were kind of like
plastic materials things were kind of mass produced it
kind of happened with the industrial design in the united states
we had you know an era in the 20s and 30s where things were
more romantic and the craftsmen were the king but then slowly as the
industrial revolution took over machinery and mass production became the
norm
i'm not quite sure if this is george's take but for me when that
pattern clicked everything made sense in terms of designing for this film
well i was very clever in the first star wars films and that i
i kept the design very simple and i avoided situations
where i was going to get into trouble design wise
this one i'm daring to take the chance and see what happens
i think about this constantly i mean it's going to the third year
and there hasn't been a day or an hour where i haven't thought of something
that could work and a starfighter alone we went through
easily three dozen drawings
good morning good morning that's only one vehicle
in a world populated by many vehicles many creatures
everything for weathering to see if this is the right amount too much not enough
your general reaction is
i would say this is the most distressed okay and then
they can do minor less versions of this okay now the other thing that we haven't
really addressed is like paint chips and things the ones that
keep it pretty much the way it is i mean the one thing that i would tone down
is this okay a little too dirty yeah okay
the whole point of this is what works for the story
it could be the coolest thing but if people don't know what it is or how it
works in five seconds it doesn't matter
so one thing i really like about always seeing doug chang is how precise he is
in his designs and he's been with lucasfilm
for a very long time now he's still with them today he's just
full of so much information and all these original designs that he drew
starting from prequels very very talented guy let's go to home sweet home
number three
the first full-size set that was started two weeks ago is anakin's interior
i think that'll be the first set that george george will see in about say in
about five or six weeks time
this is the reworkings of anakin's with an entrance way into there
yeah added an extras now hope on this side and the doorway straight out
it should feel small so definitely bring
we're eight weeks away from production now we're eight weeks away from shooting
and the adrenaline's pumping and we're
churning things out as there's no
tomorrow
you'll need to bend the tube there and the intermediate one in here
yes rake up here we're going to put a decking up here yeah
and that forms our platform excellent
anakin's off was quite an interesting one because obviously it was back in
tatooine and george wanted to have a certain feel
the homestead from star wars
the look of the movie is very very important and you want to develop a look
that that doesn't call attention to itself
that is very natural but it's very unusual at the same time and gives you
this sense of the other worldly situation so
we could take this out yes and then we can sort of try and use it for real
dress this would be hearts yeah that should be great
that would look good george was saying you know
let's make it like any nine-year-old kid's bedroom but of course
he lives in tatooine which is kind of slightly different
if you don't mind i'd just like to wander around a couple of the sets yep
we're ready okay here we are yeah
well i saw some of the photos of the set starting to go up
home sweet home all right great okay we've never dared
we've never dared go this far but uh it's sort of the first intimate area
that you've had almost isn't it yeah we never saw luke's favorite thing yeah
you know it is important that we make this a warm
boys room yeah yeah it's only nine i'm not sure
about a closet but we could take it around on the
bedroom you can put you could put a closet over
there george lucas the interior designer in
our 20th century environment the majority of things just blend in
it's not until you lay on your bed and you start to count all those different
bits and pieces that you got there that go to make up your own set at home
that you realize that you're actually recreating an environment like that but
in a completely different world action
it's so cool seeing annie's home like that
well i'd like to introduce you to thai tea
well i'd like to introduce you to thai tiger who's our prop master
hi and an integral part of our team with all the boys that we've got working here
probably the best bunch of hooligans i've ever worked with in my life thank
you very much so this is kind of our prop store
these came out of mainframe computers which we'll either use as dressing or
incorporate into something else and in fact already we've sort of taken
half of them and put them in the panels in anakin's room
all of this will be things that will be used in the tattooing street in the
markets for displaying fruit and vegetables or whatever the
guys might be selling and we've just let the boys have their
head and say look you know imagine that you're going to be selling
something down in covent garden but it's not it's the tatooine street
i think these are gaskets aren't they yeah those are gaskets yeah that's an
aerial offer fighter airplane
um held together with lots of very strong grain yep
very strong believe it or not
i mean the only way you can actually realize what to do by getting the boys
here to actually come up with ideas
what do you call it gizmo techno sort of looking
sci-fi equipment really
it's boys in paradise really yeah doing all the boys stuff
it's a boy's fault unless of course we were women and then it would be
women doing the i'm in boys gorilla army polishing guns
it's just like doing a sculpture we'd have the base of the gun
and then we start to put things together like a jigsaw and say well that looks
good on the top there and all of a sudden you've got a
finished article
you know when george comes over we have everything nicely laid out rather than
saying oh there's a bit over here george is a bit over there is a bit over there
um because he he wants to be able to see it in its nicest possible way
yeah it's like having an exhibition every time he comes over that's a very
good way of putting it yeah
attachment when he fires the cable so what we're thinking of doing is making
these out of the cast which actually fit onto the gun and take off
the fire perfect so that'll be on there and then
cool these are actually castings of the the real original
but i think they're um they're a gun that's held over like that
these are the machine guns yeah dummy machine guns
i mean obviously they're making real shooting versions of these as well
there's a shot where they all pull the guns out the holsters
and put the rockets in the end like that
very good everybody looks so close should be something nice wait so they
actually work for the jedi no that's good okay okay
we're always a bit selfish with like as much stuff to be seen as possible
and like the piece that you were spinning i mean that's a fabulous part
and maybe before they turn over george would just have it spinning slightly
and things like that almost build up don't they they might actually start on
that and pull out and reveal everything else
you know
the story is the most important not the props and you've got to get used to that
but it is the actors that are the most important obviously
you know we're just the background stuff really
background stuff is very important well as you can see guys that was a
an amazing tense situation between me and george lucas and
we did okay thank you very much