Re: Petty's Purist LotR Edits

by halfwise Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:56 pm

Mrs Figg wrote:I need to find some extra work, I am skint, any suggestions that dont involve eels? or actually working? maybe Ferguson can train me up to be your assistant majordoma/i/us/ess/thing.

Oh Figgy, that's a GREAT idea!

Okay, how about if you plan a new summer science camp for 50 middle school students (since you ain't a Yank this translates to Squatch's age or thereabouts) that keeps them continuously involved for 2 weeks, and must include math(S), physical and life science, computer technology, engineering design, presentation skills, and be focused on a unified camp problem. You'll also need to find the teachers and staff to do this. Oh, and this has to be on top of what you *already* promised to do during the the first half of the year. Sorry, all payment is 'in kind'.

When can you start? bounce

by Pettytyrant101 Sun Apr 15, 2012 10:50 pm

What an easy job Halfwise! The solution is obvious, you hire them all out to labour on a farm. Nod

Physical and life science taken care of right there.
Computer rechnology- modern milking machine qualifies there.
Engineering- no problem, ditch digging, shit shovelling, making catttle grids, bridges to get across big ditches, plenty engineering and maths possibilities.
Presentation skills- market day when they have to go sell the cattle.
And a unified camp problem- making you a profit.

And you of course spend the summer sipping buckie in the sun on a farm eating fresh produce every day.
You can pay me my cut for this brilliant idea in advance if you like. (I dont work for payment 'inkind' and if I did you couldn't afford me- I go through a lot of buckie)

by Mrs Figg Sun Apr 15, 2012 10:51 pm

oh for goodness sake thats easy peasy, just put them all in a bus send them out to some fields/forest/countryside and get them to build their own tents, engineering design sorted, then you give em some cash and tell em they have to budget for two weeks of food/supplies/beer/sweeties, that takes care of the maths, then as a science 'adventure' you get em to collect stuff they find dead at the side of the road and tell em to observe the decomposition of said roadkill as a science 'experiment' that takes care of the biology, then you tell em to collect wood for the fire and water to make the food, that should get em well and truly knackered so they all fall asleep at ten oclock leaving you and the blonde teacher with the big boobies time to crack open some vino and play scrabble. phew! howzat? am I hired?

by halfwise Sun Apr 15, 2012 10:57 pm

HIRED!

When do you arrive, do you need a subway map to get here?

by Mrs Figg Sun Apr 15, 2012 11:08 pm

er no

it looks pretty easy.
I'll be your unified camp problem if you like, I can run about doing moonies, no extra charge.

Moon

by halfwise Sun Apr 15, 2012 11:42 pm

Sounds like an ideal camp problem to me! Very Happy

by Mrs Figg Sun Apr 15, 2012 11:49 pm

cant wait to start. Petty's Purist LotR Edits - Page 34 Yahoo

by Pettytyrant101 Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:05 am

It was the boobies line swung it, wasn't it Halfwise? Admit it. Sorry can't offer those in my plan, although as a good Scotshobbit I got that Mrs Figgs beat in the mooning stakes every time.
Moon

Hah! Hers is hardly even hairy!
And what will Orwell think Mrs Figg? Besides I thought you worked for Odo as his Senior Knob Polisher in his Door-Knobs factory or something? Sure thats what he said, although I may have been drunk at the time, there being that slim posibility and all, and misheard.

by Mrs Figg Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:34 am

by halfwise Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:25 am

I'm actually the mooner-in-chief at one of our hang gliding spots, so I have a soft spot for you Mrs. Figg. At one point a car came driving up to one of the camp fires, so I did my usual: dashed out and mooned the headlights full-on. Sat back down and the our club president said with some resignatation "great, you just mooned the land-owner!"

Fortunately he knew our type and there were no repercussions.

by Porgy Bunk-Banks Mon Apr 16, 2012 7:14 am

by Pettytyrant101 Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:52 am

I dont know you lot just dont take your mooning seriously. Very Happy

Its an art form not to be done at the drop of a trouser belt like Americans do, waving it about at the slightest opportunity. Its about timing, impact and effect and above all, the most crucial factor, it has to be done at the precise moment its funniest.
Balance all those things and then you are at the Scots level of mooning quality. Nod

by halfwise Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:32 pm

I shall have to visit Scotland for an advanced course.

Mooning a random car in it's headlights doesn't qualify? I think you need to lay out examples of what is a good moon and what is a piss-poor moon. I'm eagerly awaiting guidance.

by Pettytyrant101 Mon Apr 16, 2012 5:04 pm

That is nursery school level mooning! :facepalm:

by Mrs Figg Mon Apr 16, 2012 5:13 pm

The trick is to be IN the rapidly retreating car, not waiting for a rapidly oncoming car to shine its lights up your cranny. I think you'll find.

Petty's Purist LotR Edits - Page 34 Praising

Petty's Purist LotR Edits - Page 34 Praising

by **Orwell** Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:21 am

I remember driving along (many moons ago lol!

) and this car pulls up beside me and my mate and I look over and there's this big moon looking one-eyed at us. I vowed one day to join the police force and search out such malefactors! Extremely Crabbit

by Mrs Figg Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:58 am

thats officially my second favourite post since I joined this bunch of loony moonies.

by Pseudo-Kafria Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:33 am

...and my 'favorite' post by far, Sweet Orwell... I love you

by Mrs Figg Wed Apr 18, 2012 2:08 am

by Ringdrotten Mon Apr 23, 2012 7:44 pm

Watched all your edits now, Petty, but I'm sorry to say that I am not able to give you any helpful feedback this time around. But maybe that is feedback good enough in itself - your edits are perfected! Though, there was a couple of things I'd like to comment on:

Spoiler:

Other than that I have no quibbles. Of course there are some "PJ & Coven-scenes" which I like that you have removed, but the finished product is better for it I think, as some of those scenes are inconsistent with the books, and keeping them would have ruined the point of your edits. I would like to thank you one last time, though, for these edits - I now have six brand new movies in my collection, six movies which I will continue to watch with pleasure for a long time.
Kafria summed your edits up pretty accurately: It is amazing how different the same footage can feel, what becomes the focus, just from the way it is put together. I cannot put it any better than that. So thank you for your countless hours of editing, fitting in the feedback you recieved, uploading, improving the quality (which doesn't get any better than this, by the way, neither sound nor picture Smile

). Cheers, Petty - your work is much appreciated, for whatever it's worth Smile

by Pettytyrant101 Mon Apr 23, 2012 10:07 pm

First up- thankyou Ringdrotten your feedback but probably more importantly knowing you (and others like Kafria) are watching and looking to make suggestions has made the whole thing so much more worthwhile than if I were still just doing them for my own pleasure (and they are considerably better for the feedback than if I had been doing them alone). The pleaure has been mine.

Now onto your points:

Spoiler:

by Ringdrotten Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:19 pm

Spoiler:

by Pettytyrant101 Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:41 pm

Spoiler:

by Ringdrotten Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:50 pm

Spoiler:

by Pettytyrant101 Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:55 pm

The bad news is you may still want to upload book 1 again when i get round to putting the redone version up- its got a minor change to make a cut smoother, the proper subtitles for when Aragorn meets Arwen before the Ford and the 'bedroom' conversation between Aragorn and Arwen is cut, making the Rivendell section smoother (and a little shorter).