Final Products

Evaluation Question 4

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Evaluation Question 3

EQ3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

All throughout the project, in order to determine whether or not our products were done to a good standard, synergistic and appropriate for the intended area, we had to collect feedback and then make changes accordingly. Much of this involved small changes and decisions that were influenced by other members of the class throughout the project, but also we also had a couple of group feedback sessions during the project to collect a large amount of insight at once.

We had 2 of these feedback sessions, first for the rough cut and then second for the final cut. For each of these we all watched each other's cuts and wrote notes on the good points, bad points and ways to improve them. The feedback from our rough cut was particularly useful as it revealed to us the main fault that it had at the time. The lead singer was not looking at the camera enough and so could not engage with the audience enough. This allowed us to remedy the problem when we went to our next shooting day by getting many more shots with the singer looking directly at the camera. Other problems that were highlighted at this stage were a couple of instances of lips being out of time, slightly off editing in parts, dark lighting in some of the shots and the need for a greater variety of shots. These points were all taken seriously and we addressed each of them at our next recording session so that we could make the final cut as perfect as possible.

The second feedback session where we discussed our final cuts went very well for our group. We received a lot of positive feedback with only a little of negative feedback that focused on lighting issues. Some shots were a little darker as we were using mostly natural light which diminished towards the end of the shooting sessions. People who left positive responses were particularly impressed with the lip-syncing and good editing of the video. This was relieving as there had been some concerns about these elements in the rough cut responses. We also posted the final cut onto social media sites (right) to get more instant feedback from people around the target age group. The responses were again very positive (although they could have been a little bias since we knew the people who responded).

The overall very positive response to our final cut shows us that we achieved our objective of creating a professional looking video. Before making the ancillary tasks we made initial sketches on paper to use as a template. These templates were useful not only to guide in the creation of the pieces but also in collecting initial feedback from our classmates. In doing this, the designs that we settled on were already approved by the rest of the class. We also interviewed a couple of our friends to see what they thought about our final cut and ancillary task work. This video was planned and developed together with the rest of my group so it will appear on all of our blogs.

Evaluation question 3 feedback clip from Jamie WGSB on Vimeo.

Evaluation Question 2

How Effective is the Combination of the Main Product and Ancillary Tasks?

For our media project we produced a Music Video, Digipak and Magazine Advertisements of an album to promote our chosen band, OneRepublic.

In order to get professional standard and marketable products out of the final music video, the digipak and the posters there has to be visible and effective synergistic links between them. With this in mind we created a house style that is present across all three platforms.

 Early within our project the group brainstormed ideas and themes to link in to our song choice and came up with the idea of secrets of which our song is named, we then linked this to the idea of confession and religion which became the bone theme for our project. This all became evident across all of our projects.

Our music video was set in a church which was an ideal setting which could portray our themes of confession and religion. The video was also a full performance based production, since this is typical of the indie rock genre that we had chosen. This also allows us help the audience easily identify the band and what instrument that they play.

With the video being a performance based theme we empathise on the illustrations of instruments and portrayal of the lead singer, who is commonly the most well known member of the band.  Therefore we used many close-ups of the singer to connect him to the audience.

After creating the video, me and the group decided how to plan out our Ancillary Tasks, beginning with drawing them and seeing how they would look and if they fitted what we want to present. We also used the planning to make sure we would include aspects to each task which would link them together and help our target audience recognise the band and link the three platforms together after seeing any of the three projects. We mainly achieved this through chosen images of the band that can be seen within the music video.

The Digipak shows the entire band on the front cover wearing the same formal clothing that they wore within the music video, and although on the front cover they are cut out of the background, the inside cover of the Digipak has an image of the band before their performance with the church setting visible.

At first, the chosen images were not used originally on our Ancillary Task. Instead we used a dove pattern and a simple black and white colour scheme. We thought the dove and the black/white contrast would tie in well with the themes of religion and confession, due to the doves being a symbolism of freedom and purity and often referenced within the bible. The black and white colour scheme works with the bands formal wear within the video, which became the house style of all three tasks.

The same fonts were used across the Magazine Advert and Digipak since this would create familiarity and be easily recognisable by the audience, helping the the two products to be associated.

Ultimately the aim of our project was to create a promotional package for the band. We was able to achieve this through using shots and close ups of the band within the video, my group and I then decided to cross-reference the Tasks and transfer across images to the Ancillary Tasks.

We also kept the colour scheme and imagery consistent across our print products that we created to co-aside with our house style.

In order to improve our task more images of the church could have been included in our print products for example a stain window effect could have been used as a pattern. This would have given the audience another clear link to our video and would have also helped represent our chosen themes.

Evaluation Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? From the beginning of the project it was clear that the products that we were going to make had to in some way use, develop or/and challenge the conventions of similar products that already exist. Before even starting our work on this project the work we did for our AS grade showed how important it is to make a product that would fit in with existing products. The cello plays an important role in the song so it is showcased. The first choices we made that directly influenced the forms and conventions we had to look into were the initial choice to make a music video of 'Secrets' by One Republic and the follow up choice that it would be a performance style video. One Republic is an American alternative rock band who released 'Secrets' in the album 'Waking up' in November 2009. Focusing our research on the alternative music genre was the first step on way way in the project. Due to the high diversity, alternative rock as a whole is a very wide genre of music so finding conventions that occur in every single video is impossible. However, there are many conventions that are common among them. Performance videos (or semi-performance videos,) for example are quite common among alternative rock music videos. This could be partly due to the fact that alternative rock bands often have diverse and interesting instruments, not generally found in regular pop or rock bands. For example both a violin and a cello are used in 'Secrets' by One Republic and 'Bittersweet Symphony' by the Verve. These instruments define these songs and make them unique and so we decided to showcase them in our video. This also occurs in the official video for 'Secrets' with many close-ups and medium shots. More so than the violin, cello or any other instrument, the singer has to be showcased. This is a broad convention that is important throughout any genre of music. The singer has the most attention of all of the band members and usually is the star of the video even if it is narrative based. This is because the lead singer acts as the 'face' of the band. A band's image is formed through the energy and appearance of the singer in videos and at concerts as well as through the music itself. Another common theme is to have the singer look directly at the camera for much of the video. This creates a connection between the song and the audience and makes the video more enjoyable to watch. We included this aspect in our video (shown above) to great effect. The other band members that were shown in our video did not look into the camera like the lead singer as this was also common throughout alternative rock videos. They are depicted focusing on their instrument, moving their head to the music and sometimes closing their eyes. Instead of focusing on their gaze, the instruments and the manual dexterity of the musicians were outlined with close ups on their fingers whilst playing or shots of the drums being hit etc. This is another common convention among performance videos as it shows of the musicians' skill and has potential to emphasise each instrument's key moments.Setting was another key choice in the making of our music video. Many performance music videos are set in wide open places with the band in the center. This creates a cool effect and we wanted to do something similar. Early in the development stage we created a mind map linking words from the song to other things that we could use throughout the project. One of these themes was the idea of 'confessions' developed from the title, 'Secrets'. This word gave birth to the church setting idea that went on to become the final location of the video. The church we eventually did the filming in had a wide area to work with similar to the open areas in existing music videos such as Red Hot Chili Peppers' 'Fortune Faded' and the Kaiser Chiefs' 'Never Miss a Beat'.

Final Magazine Adverts

Magazine Advert Research and Planning

With the magazine advertisement, it was kept in mind that all the three products produced would be linked together by obvious means of media. So when my group began planning the digipak and advert we looked into current products that's within our genre.

So with the advert we looked into the album advertisements of 'Ed Sheeran', 'Goldfrapp', 'Elton John and Leon Russel' and lastly 'Bob Dylan'.

Looking at these advertisements we began to take inspiration out of the advertisements and comparing to our own images that we could use. My group member Jamie had drawn up some drafts to use in reference to photos from our recording and digipak ideas.

THe overall view on our genre's advertisements is that they are very simple and well designed to draw attention to the key features such as the albums name, the album artists, release dates and reviews such as star ratings.

It's common to feature a blown up image of the band of figurehead (normally singer) to help establish their identity and brand. When referring to other adverts to our ideas, we like the simplistic design and colour scheme of Elton john's and Leon Russel's advert; being a nice black and white theme and easy to read text.

For our advert, the original idea was to have a photo of the band in the middle with a similar layout to the advert of Elton and Leon. We decided to have the information above adn below the image with the key things written in a larger font, and maybe in different colour that runs with our theme.


Below you can see where we have circled part on the magazine advert of which we wish to carry across to our advert:

For a secondary idea to use, we looked into Bob Dylan's album advert. Our main interest was how the image was stationed on the page, using the most known musician (the lead singer) as the image. WE also liked the idea of showing the album to give recognition for the audience to be able to find and buy it at stores. the picture of the album would also help establish the band as a whole despite the lead singer being the only one to feature on the advert.

Below you can see we have circled the feature that we like on this advert and wish to carry across to our own designs:

We also noticed that the adverts that the record labels would get their icon place at the bottom of the magazine as a promotion method and recognition of their work. So to keep the aspects of our magazine real we wished to include this aswell as a website name for the band due to this also being place on previous magazines adverts. The 'HMV' logo will also we also wanted on our advert to show the consumers and fans where to buy the album from. 

The previously mentioned recording icons we planned to place on both our digipak and advert. After some research, we found that One Republic's record labels were Mosley Music Group and Interscope Records, both of which are owned by Universal Music Group.

Magazine Advert Production

Magazine Advert 1 Production on Prezi

Magazine Advert 2 Production on Prezi

Final Digipak

This is the final design of our Digipak. We stuck with our chosen theme of doves which is a reference to our album title, 'Letting Go'. We went ahead and tryed to define the pictures more, to give thema slight edge and it does improve the piece but overall wasn't really noticeable. We like our design and believe it works with our hosue theme trhoughout all products we created.

Digipak Research - Existing Products

These are some small designs that i created as a quick idea on what possible effects we can use for our digipak. In the end, we took the idea of using different colours for 'One Republic' and 'Letting Go' using the themed idea from existing One Republic digipaks and also thought the tiled effect used in the top right hand corner could be used as a pattern on the back cover and inside cover, as it resembles a stained glass window.

FInal Cut Feedback

To get feedback for our final cut, the whole year group watched our video and made notes on it. They told us what aspects they liked and also things that could have been done better.

Overall, the feedback from our final cut was very positive. People mainly commented on the range of camera angles and shots we used to portray the band. Some comments included:


* Edited well to the beat and good lip syncing
* Good close ups and shots of the instruments
* Good eye contact from lead singer
* Effective transitions
* Good use of extreme close up on the lips
* Good variety of shots of all band members
* Good camera movement

The negative comments people had were mainly about the change in lighting in some shots as a few appeared darker with a high contrast.

Final Cut

Secrets - Final Cut from Jamie WGSB on Vimeo.

This is our final cut of our music video. We used the Feedback from our rough cut to guide us for a better video. So we changed the lighting on the singer to be brighter and clearer, have the singer looking directly into the camera more, we also gained more varied shots of our instruments. Afterward me and my group came up with the idea of incorporating the 'MTV Rocks' logo into our video since this was our selected Music channel. This gave it more realism and helped it to look more like a professional music video.

Digipak Ideas

When Creating these we took the main ideas from our mind map previously made and began making these drafts for the cover.

The image on the left were the first 6 attempts at a digipak cover. The photos used of the cello and candle were taken at the church we used. we also used doves due to how our mind map came up with the idea of peace in reference to doves, so we found a custom brush that was altered to help suit our album and requirements.

The Title 'Letting Go' was inspired to us after we created the dove cover and liked how it linked in with the church and the song called secrets since the song is all about letting go of your secrets and letting people know.

The Dove cover ( middle right) was the first idea my group came up with and was experimented across to other ideas. The idea with the cello being on the front was because it was the main focus of the song along with the singer. The candle was an idea of light and represented the church. When editing those photos they were cut them from their original backgrounds and adjusted vibrance/contrast/brightness/saturation levels to optimum levels.

When combined the dove cover with the candle cover we liked the idea of the doves looking like the smoke of the flame, so with that in mind the doves were overlayed on to the top layer and we attempted to create a misty effect and see how it would look. me and my group didn't like the end result since it didn't look like how we was hoping it would look.

The cello covers were more conventional and was deiced to be left simple and easy to look at. the title was rested on top of the cellist bow as if it underlined the title. The white text easily contrast the dark gradient background which makes for a nice effect. The top right image I had made a few adjustments to lighting in order for the cello to have a greater effect and presence.

After looking at these covers we realised that we had made the covers look way to classical and not of our recognisable genre of music, therefore would not appeal to our targeted audience. We therefore chose not to use any of these as a final digipak cover.

Below here you can see the drawn ideas made up by my group after reviewing the other covers it includes a new concept of ideas of which the band are the main focus rather than imagery and instruments. this way it keeps consistency with the music video and dove theme of which we have been trying.



The last point was to choose our font for the digipak. This font would also feature in our magazine advert as this would keep the coherency. We chose the font Headline from DaFont.com, and felt this font worked well with our designs. It suggested a mix of formality and informality with its blocky text. It also fitted well with previous fonts used by One Republic.

Digipak: Alternative Rock Research

With album covers within the alternative rock genre, the common theme among them is how the cover shows the band with the lead singer in the front of the image. the rest fo the band members are usually behind the lead singer but still easily reconisable. The reason for this is because the lead singer is the msot easily reconisable to the fans so putting him forefront of the photo would make the band as a whole more recognisable.

Looking into exisiting products of the genre, such as Stereophonics album cover and the Razorlight's album cover, it's easy to see that both images are looking out at the audience with the other band members looking out of image or appearing less engaged wiht the audience. This highlights the importance of the lead singer and allows people to understand the roles of the people withing the picture without needing to know who is who.

However, with the majority of alternative rock albums/digipaks its often displayed with an artistic or computer generated image. We have found within OneRepublic's exisiting products that they use a lot of artwork rather than an image of the band and this research showed that this was common for the whole genre. The image on the right is an example of the different kinds of album art within the genre, with many posing no specific relevance the title of the album or the name of the band.

Digipak Initial Ideas and Mood Board

The song we used called 'Secrets' was filmed in a church to keep a coherence within our themes, such as secrets leading to confessions and both used within a religious environment.

When trying to keep a coherence across all our tasks, it was decided that we would keep these themes and ideas and even incorporate a newer theme of freedom - selected due to our mind map of which is below.

We wanted the album to be dark with a light source to help represent the ideals we had, we also looked into different albums, such as 'Come Closer' by Miles Kane and 'Defamation of Strickland Banks' by Plan B, to help inspire us and make sure this was a professional job.

Both of these two albums feature a dark setting and a small light source.

From the Miles Kane album, we thought that we could possibly use the silhouette idea in front of a church window. From the Plan B album, we thought that our lead singer sitting in a confession box with similar lighting would work well.We then had the idea of doves and freedom, relating to 'give all my secrets away'. We liked the idea of having white doves flying away on a dark background, and possibly changing the contrast and effects so that the doves glow on a black background. We also added to this idea by thinking of having a cloudy effect on the background, and possibly having a ray of light shining through the clouds.We then needed to decide what sort of names would be appropriate for our album. Elliot came up with these ideas:

'Letting Go'
'Breaking Free'

If we decide to make the album a single, then we would be able to name it 'Secrets' after the song.

Digipak: One Republic's Logo's and Styles

When looking into our digipak ideas we thought it'd be best to look into exisiting One Republic digipaks, and see if we can continue a theme they might have for their texts. In the end each album used a variety of fonts on the front covers and as you can see from the image on the left, it does not display a logo for the band which allows us the freedom of designing our own style of logo when creating the digipak.

Despite all this, there are still amny similaritys between our font idea and One Republics. They both use black, white and browns as a distinct colour scheme, also we both use formal fonts to reflect the band as a whole, and trhoughout their video they are seen wearing formal clothing. this helps futher promote the band's image. The fonts are, in some cases, used for both the name of the band and the album title, but they have allowed difference to eb indicated through the change of colour.

The OneRepublic's albums always use some sort of abstract art work, as seen on the album 'Waking up' on the right side. THey used a vairety of paint splats for many of their album artwork but also used silhouette of a tree on a blue starry background, such as 'Dreaming Out Loud'. This album cover si the onyl oen that seem relevent towards the title fo the album as it creates a dream-liek atmosphere with the starts and night sky - these are also commonly assosiated with dreams.

'Apologise' is the one album that shows the band as a whole where you can see how they dress formally and give of their image as a band. The lead singer is presented at the front, and the remaining band members are situated behind him, showing his importance and role in the band. If we use an image of our band as a whole we would need to pay attention to how we set up the image like this.

Digipak Research

For our digipak, it was best that we look at existing products to make sure that our held the same professionalism as the others used within our genre. So Jamie brought in some CD for us to analyse and look into and see if we could get a good idea of what to create for our own digipak. the first album we looked into was Green Day's album: American Idiot.

The front cover of the album was more artwork than live imagery of the band, presenting us with a hand holding a heart shaped grenade, reflection on the lines of the song 'She's a rebel' on the album:

'She's the symbol
of resistance
and she's holding on my
heart like a hand grenade'

With this we can see a sense of continuity throughout their piece of which we might want to use within our digipak as an idea. E.g. Take our main line "give all my secrets away" and create an image to reflect this.

With the front cover of 'American Idiot' we can see they have used a simplistic colours such as black, red and white to help present a violent out look onto the album.

The font for 'GreenDay' is a very simple block texted design with slight distortion to keep the theme of violence and rebellion. IT is the biggest text on the front cover followed by the album name 'American Idiot' which is smaller but in a different colour, red.

When looking inside the CD jewel case, we noticed that the album keeps to the same colour scheme throughout using the colours as continuity. There are no pictures of the band them self but are iconic enough to be noticed by their Band name/logo aswell as just their names which are highlighted within red writing, they are also noticed by their instrument and their part within the band which is all written beneath the names. The inside also has references towards the producers, other musicians and guest singers who helped produce the album. It also notes the placement of recording.

Behind the actual CD is a nice simple black background, and doesn't focus on anything interesting other than the CD.

When looking at the back of the CD it shows a list of songs so that the audience knows what they are buying., it also carries on a continued theme of the 'hand grenade' by having a picture of a pin on the grenade. This is done to help create a sense of coherence throughout the album and make it look together as one product. Another aspect on the back cover is the usual bar-codes, Parental Advisory' label, and advertisement for 'greenday.com' and 'repriserecords.com' which are all references to the audience so they understand more about the artist they have picked up.

The next album we decided to look into was the Kaiser Chiefs album 'Employment'. The ideas behind this album were very similar to Greenday's album, but this time with a brown theme which is again displayed throughtout the album with amny features and designs within the same place.

This colour scheme is used throughout the album mand is even similar to Green Day's album. Both back covers present the song list, barcodes and contributers to the album, as well as 'Kaiserchiefs.co.uk' shown on the back. Whereas on the font cover, the usuasl 'logo' font for Kaiser Chiefs' band name is used with the album anme written in a very different and italic type face. The font cover also shows a sticker stating 'special edition', this is common umongst albums in general so my group will take this into consideration wether or not to add this to our digipak, but overall i beleive we shall not since the sticekr is not physically not a part of the digipak. Unlike the Green Day album, the inside of the album behind where the CD would be is a patten which is continious throughout the album. The inside cover also shows the names of the songs in the album and a small change in design is shown. The back and inside covers are different to the front cover and CD panel, as they depict lighter colours.

This album presented, 'U218 Singles', is very different to the others and is focused much mroe on the band identity and has more band pictures with a black and white colour scheme used through out this design and a varied pictures of the band across three panels of the album. Although the panel behind the CD is planin black similar to the Green Day album.Many albums appear to not have any kind of pattern behind the CD, and if they do it is very simplistic.

Adding a Logo

So now that my group has learned how to key frame and layer the video, we liked the idea of using our chosen Music Channel's logo in our video to give it more of a professional feel to the video. So we added the 'MTV Rocks' logo to the top left within our video due to our research we had done on other videos within MTV Rocks channel. Within this research it was easily shown that the MTV Rocks logo was at the top left of the screen as shown in the pictures below.


So to do this we had to import the image of the logo and save it as a PNG file as this would get rid of the white background within the image and turn it transparent. The image was then dragged into final cut and placed within the V2 column so that it would layer on top of the video.

When the image was first placed into the video it filled the whole canvas, so we checked the option for image and wire frame so that we could adjust the size of the image and place it where we wished. After this was done we attempted to stretch the image across the whole video but it would only go so far, so in the end we made multiple copy and placed them next to each other so that we could have the image through out the whole video. In doing this we gave our video a much more professional look and helped give it realism.

How To Keyframe

One idea that was brought up for our FinalCut Project was to have a small sign pop up at the start and end of video, indicating what the song is called aswell as the artist. The way you can do this is by 'KeyFraming', so after noticing this me and my group started to research Keyframing and found out how it allows the user to lay an image over another and move it to particular parts of the screen. We may also add a watermark to the video for example the MTV Rocks logo, as that is the channel we feel our video would be best suited to.

The main way my group learned how to do this was through useful YouTube videos by the 'Final Cut King' who (although using FinalCut Pro instead of FinalCut Express) had made two very simple videos which helped guide us through the basics and how to layer.

Download:

FLVMP43GP

Download:

FLVMP43GP

Download:

FLVMP43GP

Download:

FLVMP43GP

Rough Cut Feedback

Now that the rough cut is finished we had the rest of the class look at our video and give us some feedback and advice. letting us know what they thought was good and the areas that would need improving. The overall conclusion of the group was that the shots used for instruments were good, everything seemed synced to the music (especially the drums), and the video flowed well but it was deemed that improvements would be needed since the class did pick up on a few:

• The lighting was pointed out by many people as being varied throughout the video and this needs to be corrected. the focus for our problem was how our lighting was not powerful enough for most shots, also the light coming through the window was sometimes too bright, obscuring the rest of the shot. Hopefully when we next film the natural lighting will be slightly less, if not we will have to edit the contrast of our shots.

• Another problem that was pointed out was how the singer didn't look into the camera alot and therefore didn't connect with the audience as much as the reviewer's liked. This will be easy to correct when rerecording and we'll have to replace some of the singers shot with this in mind.
  

• The opening of our rough cut was described as being 'jolty', we thought best that we re-film with a bigger and more interesting stained glass window in the church of which we saw in our photos of our first visit.
  

• We realised afterward that there were parts of the video where the signer or instruments fell out of sync with the music. So we thought best to sort this out after our second filming since we planned on getting new instrument shots.
  

With this feedback me and my group are happy with the results but understand that we have missed/lacked some aspects of which still needs improving or fixing. We are re-filming in the church again on the 5th of February, we plan on doing the following:

1. Re film the opening using the bigger stained glass window and less jolting
2. Re film singer shots we liked from the rough cut with better lighting
3. Film more shots of singer looking at camera
4. Film a close up of lips with the line ‘all my secrets away’
5. Film more varied shots of strings and fingers
6. Create more energy in chorus
7. Film faster cello shots so they look correct to the audience

Rough Cut

Secrets - Rough Cut from Jamie WGSB on Vimeo.

Rough Cut Editing Process

Now that my group had footage, we began to edit and sync it with the song, Secrets - One Republic. We used Final Cut Express on an Apple iMac8,1 Model to do this. I had to import the footage from the clips into the FinalCut database, this is when my group named each clip so we could tell which sections of footage were which, Then we moved them into the viewer and started to place clips into the timeline, but before we did this my group found that we need to lock the audio bar so that the music did not split.

We thought best for us to go chronologically through the video whilst using the animatic we made as our guide (as we had been doing when recording). The animatic was opened up along side out FinalCut project so that we could look at and adapt specific cuts and effects that we had used within our animatic.

With the beginning of the video we had previously planned that we wanted long drawn out, slow shots and slow transition effects to reflect the calmness of the music instead of using what we had done with the rest of the video, Straight Cuts.

You can see from the picture opposite the way we had to drag the fade effect into the space between two clips and then lengthen the fade so that it overlapped both clips it was between. The only other effect other than a fade that we used in the video was an additive dissolve, which gave the transition a glow as two clips overlapped each other.

When attempting to place the clip into the timeline of our project, we had to mark an input and output point on the clip we was watching in viewer for the few seconds of which we wanted to include. This gave us the ability to drag small clips of our original footage and then sync the song with our video easily.

After that process and my group had the clip that we wanted; we'd had to lock the first layer of video (V1) and insert the clip i wanted on to the above track (V2). This allowed us to get our timings where we wanted them and drop it into the track with ease.

One thing me and my group had trouble with was the lip syncing between our singer and the song itself. it took a lot of time and patience to get the video to match exactly to what you hear. Sometimes the clips were a fraction of a second out and this was very noticeable on the video. This is why we had our group constantly checking what we'd done.

Once we had gotten the timeline in to the right order, we had to edit the contrast and colouring of some shots, due to how the lighting slowly changed in the course of our recording, this was particularly difficult to do on Final Cut and the result meant that we would need to re-film some of our shots.