Hello and welcome to this week's installment of Cue by Cue.
Today we're going to be listening to 5m3 End Fix, the insert written to replace the ending of 5m3 Yoda's Entrance, which the filmmakers evidently didn't like.
This insert is 6 bars long and was orchestrated by Angela Morley.
Here's the tops of the sketch and orchestrated score:
Now let's listen to the insert together:
The first 7 seconds of this insert are an exact rerecording of 2:02-2:09 of the original 5m3 Yoda's Entrance.
At 0:07, rather than start a new woodwind line like in the original cue, the insert doesn't do anything for the shot change at all, instead choosing to continue the hesitant woodwinds.
These bleed into some subtle swirling strings for the shot change at 0:13, accompanied with some timpani as 3PO speaks. Thus, the insert ends...
This insert was used in the final cut exactly as intended, replacing the end of 5m3 Yoda's Entrance.
Since I don't have a recording log I'm unsure what day this insert was recorded, but based on the take numbers written in the sketch it was one of the later things recorded in mid-late January. I'm also unsure how many takes were recorded, but according to the sketch the performance edit uses take 263.
This cue has never been officially released, and can't be heard on any of the commercial albums. It's not heard in the 1983 Radio Drama either. However, as mentioned before, it is used in the film (nearly) in its entirely, so that's the source I used for the video above.
The opening isn't completely clean, but it's clean enough that it sounds decent. Technically the ending seems to be faded out slightly early, the timpani line should go "high, low low low, high" twice, where in the film the second one only goes "high, low low..."
You could try to fix that by splicing in the full ending from 5m3 Yoda's Entrance, but since the timing of the timpani seems to be a little different I didn't do so. Hopefully the full unedited insert will be premiered one day on a future expansion.
That's all I have for today, thanks for reading! Feel free to leave any comments or questions.
Next week we'll be listening to 5m4-6m1 Solo and the Princess. See you then!