DarenDoc’s Slightly Nifty Musings Inc.

When I was at USC, I was really thinking I wanted to be an editor… it was one of those things that I sorta just fell into doing because I had the opportunity to.  I was able to make use of the Film School’s equipment when I did work-study as one of the monitors of the Marcia Lucas Post Production building at USC.  In the various editing rooms, there were professional VHS editing decks… which I learned, and utilized practicing my editing skills… along with my friend Chuck Michael.  As some of you have seen, one of the results of this collaboration was “The Empire Strikes Quack”… another project that I was doing at the same time, with the same elements, was a 6 minute montage of clips from the Star Wars movies edited to the closing theme music from the films.  I called it “The First Decade” in anticipation of the 10th anniversary of Star Wars that was coming up in the next year.  At the 10th anniversary convention in May of 1987, I showed this and “The Empire Strikes Quack” alternately over and over again at a booth for everyone to see… it and “Quack” were a big hit… but this hasn’t been seen since.  I’m kinda proud of this too… I’m particularly happy that I was able to maintain my edict of keeping the clips in their original order, and managing to sync up several good music cues with actions in the clips.  Especially fun, is hearing the “plunk plunk plunk” of the music as Wicket jabs princess leia with a stick.  lol

Enjoy.