How did speaker series go?
Well I know we were super excited to have you there.
Well you tell a couple of lies and they…
Hey!
Tommy.
I’ll let you have my seat.
Oh no!
It’s been 2 hours we’re going to be fine.
I feel bad, you guys were having a conversation.
We were, we were pretty deep into talking about me.
Sorry Andi, I apologize.
Tommy!
This week, on The Star Wars Show!
A director’s roundtable with Rian Johnson and Thomas Kail!
We check out one of the coolest jobs at Skywalker Sound.
And much, much more.
Now from the Lucasfilm Headquarters it’s The Star Wars Show!
Hi I’m Andi Gutierrez and welcome to The Star Wars Show, the only show where
Hey, what’s up, sorry I’m late.
Don’t do that.
Yeah.
I’m a hologram this week.
Because Star Wars.
It’s not a big deal.
Let’s go to the news.
What happens if I touch you?
I don’t feel it.
OH GOD IT BURNS!
Just kidding.
Cool…can we start the news?
Sure…
ATTENTION PREQUEL DEFENSE FORCE!
WE HAVE SOME URGENT AND LATE BREAKING NEWS THAT YOU WILL LOVE!
How did you do that?
Oh, holograms can do all kinds of stuff.
I didn’t do that when I was a hologram.
Well you didn’t read the instructions properly.
Anyway!
Star Wars Force Arena is getting a new update that includes prequel era content!
Jar-Jar?
No…but we are getting Darth Maul, General Grevious, prequel era-Yoda, Anakin and Ashsoka
Tano.
Snips and Sky-Guy?!
Surely you jest!
I do not madam.
Holograms cannot joke.
Plus Force Arena is getting new maps a new game mode, and tons of improvements to the
overall experience.
The update goes live August 17th and if you haven’t downloaded Force Arena you need
to because that game is awesome!
And while we’re on the subject of games, Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes is adding a new
game mode!
Territory Battles will allow you to take your entire collection of characters and ships
and team up with your guild to win large scale conflicts.
Hoth will be the first map to host these massive battles Plus new character rewards like Hoth
Han, Hoth Leia, and Hermit Yoda are being added.
No work yet on whether or not Hermit Yoda will come with the snake that lives in his
hut.
Stay tuned to Galaxy of Heroes launch of Territory battles coming very, very soon.
And for more breaking news from around the galaxy!
Check out Star Wars.com Am I doing it?
Better or worse?
What are you doing here?
Hello!
You’re making a movie?
I’m making a movie.
And they put you here?
We’re staying here Is that good for sound guys?
At Skywalker Sound.
I’ve been living here at Skywalker Sound.
This is what is was like making your first films right?
Exactly, we had more time with Brick because we had more money but similar setup to this.
And its crazy because you get in the room and realize its actually the same stuff.
That’s the funny thing, shooting a movie though, you have more time but the actual
process of making a scene work with a couple of actors and a camera doesn’t change.
Problem solving on your feet.
I’m sure having directed live TV, you have no experience with.
I have a very concentrated experience with that.
When you guys were on set for this, did you have a chance to peek your head up and
Yeah every now and then we would just look over the camera and be like…
We’d be talking about the framing of a shot and then we’d step back and…yeah that’s
C-3PO in the middle of the frame..okay!
What’s also great is that you have that moment, and then someone needs you to do this
or that and that is C-3PO.
And they need you.
C-3PO needs you, you’re the last hope.
He doesn’t really.
Anthony Daniels knows what he’s doing.
What was the process of liberating yourself to go in to try and tell this story?
Having been part of Star Wars fandom the past 40 years, I know how strongly people are going
to have opinions about it.
All those things that made it seem terrifying, but it was strange.
Once I actually jumped into it, it was the most fun I’ve ever had writing…and it
was kind of the least scary process.
And I think part of it was I wasn’t alone for the process.
I was writing on my own but I moved up to San Francisco for a few months and every few
weeks I would go in and sit down with Kiri Hart and her whole story group team and I
would just put everything I was thinking up on the white board and just bounce it off
everyone to see what everyone thought.
That kind of gut check.
Not just for a wait, no, don’t do that.
But for yeah, okay you can do that if that’s interesting to you, take that path.
Having that permission from somebody, that had a lot to do with it.
The first thing I kind of realized was that I have to trust my inner fan.
If it resonates with me, I gotta trust that.
And it’s what George did with the original movies you know.
When I sat down the very first time to watch the movie with John Williams – how was that
for a name drop?
That was pretty good.
This is the place to do it.
The lights went down and the Lucasfilm, and the galaxy far, far away and in that lull
before the opening fanfare, I leaned over and said, “This first que is temp, we’ll
do something totally different here.”
He looked at me but he didn’t realize I was joking and the music started up so I couldn’t
say, “I’m joking!” because it was too loud.
That, yeah John Williams.
For the next two hours, yeah he started laughing, “I was joking about the thing”
That was my weird sense of humor at a time when I was nervous.
A dad joke that I’m making.
So then, ILM is working on the effects so we’re having effects reviews everyday and
I’m just looking at all this amazing new stuff ILM is delivering so there’s kind
of this final rush of it coming together which is exhilarating.
I feel like I should probably get out of the way of that progress and let you get back
to it.
Thank you for coming around, I just happened to be sitting here.
It just so happened that you happened to be hanging out.
I’ve been here for like 6 months and you just walked in.
I’m surprised I didn’t see you.
I don’t really walk past here, I usually go through the kitchen.
Well you’re working and hoping someone drops off a bottle of water.
Well, this was really lovely.
Thank you.
Thanks!
Look I think he’s heading for that small moon!
That’s no moon.
Ni hao Star Wars Show!
I’m here in Shanghai with the 501st Legion: China Garrison giving you a “May the Force
be with you!”.
Yuàn yuán lì yǔ nǐ tóng zài!
Later!
You're watching The Star Wars Show!
This was BB-8.
It’s a bowling ball covered with dirt.
My name is Jana Vance and I’m a foley artist at Skywalker Sound.
A foley artist is someone who works to picture and puts sounds back in to what you see in
the film.
What foley does is make films more believable so essentially what I do is I work on a sound
proof stage, I act basically out whatever the characters are doing.
Whether they be walking, running or dropping a lightsaber, that’s me.
We were trying to figure out how to BB-8, I was trying different things like hollow
metal bowls, plastic, we weren’t really sure and then we realized that he should be
heavy and pretty smooth and since we were doing him on the interior grates, we ended
up using a bowling ball to make him sound big.
I think it’s really more about not sneaking a sound in but creating a sound you hope will
be heard.
Because you can spend a lot of time on something to really get the detail right and really
beautiful and then you have music.
I think what inspires me in my job is how unique every show is.
Every show has different challenges and so it’s figuring out those challenges.
And it’s amazing what you can come up with.
My favorite contributions to Star Wars was the opening shot with Rey.
She’s scavenging one of the old Star Destroyers and I did her footsteps and I also did everything
she touches.
Then she steps off and goes down a very long rope and bam.
There you go.
That’s the opening introduction for Rey.
Foley is really kind of the glue to a soundtrack.
It’s part of developing the characters.
All those characters have their own unique sound and if you didn’t hear that, you’d
be missing it.
Anthony, you, it’s time!
When I find out who hooked me up to a clapper, I’m going to get you fired.
Other than that, being a hologram is fun.
Right?
It’s super fun.
Do you think when we die we become Force Ghosts because we worked on the show?
Dunno.
The Copy Machine turned into a Force Ghost DON’T SAY THAT, YOU MIGHT SUMMON IT!
That’s some Emmy worthy special effects work if I do say so myself.
Cracker Jack job, team!
And as always, remember to like the video, subscribe to the channel, follow us on all
of our social media handles and as always, may the Force be with you.
You gonna be back next week?
WE’LL SEE…..I’m liking this hologram- That’s good.
I’m glad we installed that.
No!
You’re breaking the illusion!!
What happens when I touch you?
I call for an adult.
What happens when I touch you?
HR comes down here