Main Task - Post Production - First Cut

Having completed a film opening at AS, the thought of editing a music video seemed relatively easy, due to the fact we now had far more experience of using Final Cut Pro. However, as soon as we started placing our shots on the timeline, we knew the editing process was going to far more difficult than we had initially thought.
We noticed that we have to make much quicker cuts that we had made when creating our music video as we needed the cuts to match the pace of the song. Also, we did encounter one major problem when editing that we had never had to deal with before: the syncing of sound to visuals.
Due to the fact we had chosen to do a performance music video, we had to sync up Annie's singing in the visuals to that in the audio, which was quite difficult. Although, we found it most problematic to sync the instruments to the sound, particularly the drums, as as times they were being played quite fast.

For our first cut, we aimed to just get a rough placing of where the shots would be within the song. We knew that we definitely didn't have enough cuts, however we left it for the moment, as we knew that was something we could change when we more finely edited the music video. The point in the song we were struggling to fill though was the slower section two minutes into the song, so for the first cut we chose to just use a generic montage of the band from cuts filmed during the production process.