From the very beginning of this project, we have experienced a number of difficulties (quite literally from the beginning - it took us longer than all the other groups to even decide on a song!) which have all delayed our progress, pushing it right up to the deadline.
To start with, we were let down by the first actor we cast for our artist (Archie Harris-Eva) several times before he eventually backed out of the project, which put us back to square one. We were also let down a few times by the replacement actor Sam Barnham, although this is understandable as we were asking him to put aside a lot of time to film all the performance scenes, and unfortunately other work/family commitments had to take priority. We experienced similar problems with availability of group members, as sometimes other engagements took precedence. Of course, we also faced organisational problems (such as the children, who do not live locally) and weather-related setbacks which all contributed in small part to the stressful delay in our progress.
We also experienced some delays with the Media Department at school, as at one point there was high demand for camera equiptment, as well as some limited access to iMacs to edit on. Finally, we also had some difficulties becoming accustomed with the new editing software, moving on to Final Cut Express from the simple user-friendly interface of iMovie. This dramatically slowed our editing process to start with, although in the end the increased functionality proved its usefulness.
