Food for thought.

No plan for the lightsabers yet. I'll check the hardware store and cobble something together according to the kids' preferences and paint the blade orange, I guess.

Okay, that didn't work either then. I didn't really like the idea that the sneaking was fake sneaking anyway. I'll keep thinking.

Excellent! I'll know more this weekend when I run the script by the kids and their mothers.

I'll shoot the test footage Teague suggests and also some of the locations we'll use.

That is awesome. He's a good artist, so he might have ideas. I figured you guys would use whatever spaceship model you had lying around, especially if it's recognizably Star Wars-related.

The interior spaceship shot I envisioned would be done as a dark, appropriately Sith-y location, with a spaceship wall projected behind the actor, and the actor lit minimally for effect. It won't have to be especially good because we'll do the hologram effect in that scene, and that will be the focus.

So of this proposal, what is the hardest part and therefore should be minimized? The lightsaber roto?

I'd really like to write something that then gets shot by someone else and turned into a real short film that would be worth taking to a film festival.

I'd also love to write and shoot some scenes with my 11yo niece and nephew and see it turned into a lightsaber battle with some fun special effects. That would crazy thrill them.

Crazier still, I think I can fund the projects to the level that it's worth someone's time to do it.