Making The Music Sound Track - Syncing

Aidan created a timeline on Google Docs with times of important actions highlighted in bold. I used this to sync up the music very precisely, to the millisecond. Before then we were visually watching the movie while playing the music at the same time to try and sync it up. This was obviously very inaccurate which is why we resorted to using the timeline. 

The whole gang using the visual method of syncing.

• 0:00:00 - OTS begins
• 0:08:21 - Adam sits down
• 0:12:11 - cross dissolve to second shot begins
• 0:14:04 - Cross dissolve to second shot ends
• 0:15:15 - cross dissolve to third shot begins
• 0:16:15 - cross dissolve to third shot ends
• 0:17:24 - cigarette is placed in ash tray
• 0:19:06 - cross dissolve to fourth shot begins
• 0:19:22 - cross dissolve to fourth shot ends
• 0:23:22 - cross dissolve to fifth shot begins
• 0:24:09 - cross dissolve to fifth shot ends
• 0:25:10 - cross dissolve to sixth shot begins
• 0:26:07 - cross dissolve to sixth shot ends
• 0:30:01 - cross dissolve to seventh shot begins
• 0:31:01 - cross dissolve to seventh shot ends
• 0:33:24 - cross dissolve to eighth shot begins
• 0:34:14 - cross dissolve to eighth shot ends
• 0:34:24 - cross dissolve to ninth shot begins
• 0:36:06 - cross dissolve to tenth shot ends
• 0:38:04 - cross dissolve to eleventh shot begins
• 0:38:13 - cross dissolve to eleventh shot ends
• 0:38:24 - folder blocks screen
• 0:40:01 - twelfth shot
• 0:40:05 - blue tac ripped
• 0:40:18 - thirteenth shot
• 0:42:16 - cross dissolve to fourteenth shot begins
• 0:44:04 - cross dissolve to fourteenth shot ends
• 0:46:06 - fifteenth shot
• 0:46:12 - first flash in fifteenth shot
• 0:46:23 - second flash in fifteenth shot
• 0:47:07 - third flash in fifteenth shot
• 0:49:17 - cross dissolve to sixteenth shot begins
• 0:50:11 - cross dissolve to sixteenth shot ends
• 0:52:13 - cross dissolve to seventeenth shot begins
• 0:53:07 - cross dissolve to seventeenth shot ends
• 0:57:02 - eighteenth shot
• 1:00:05 - nineteenth shot
• 1:02:16 - twentieth shot
• 1:03:18 - twenty-first shot
• 1:04:09 - sticky note placed on board
• 1:04:16 - twenty-second shot
• 1:05:01 - picture placed on board
• 1:05:21 - cross dissolve to twenty-third shot begins
• 1:06:17 - cross dissolve to twenty-third shot ends
• 1:10:03 - cross dissolve to twenty-fourth shot begins
• 1:11:01 - cross dissolve to twenty-fourth shot ends
• 1:11:10 - Adam stands off chair
• 1:15:05 - twenty-fifth shot
• 1:28:16 - flash dissolve to twenty-sixth shot
• 1:29:03 - twenty sixth shot
• 1:57:01 - OTS ends

This is the first timeline that Aidan made. After I synced it all up and I exported it and we got it into Final Cut Pro and added to our OTS. We then exported the film and showed it to the class for feedback, the video is here: Class Feedback
After the feedback, Aidan went to work and tried to address everything the class had talked about: making clips shorter and longer etc. The audio was then obviously out of sync so Aidan created a second timeline with updated times:

• 0:00:00 - OTS begins
• 0:02:03 - first credit
• 0:06:04 - second credit
• 0:11:09 - Adam sits down
• 0:15:11 - cross dissolve to second shot begins
• 0:16:04 - cross dissolve to second shot ends
• 0:16:07 - third credit
• 0:18:02 - cross dissolve to third shot begins
• 0:19:02 - cross dissolve to third shot ends
• 0:19:07 - fourth credit
• 0:20:09 - cigarette is put on ash tray
• 0:21:18 - cross dissolve to fourth shot begins
• 0:22:09 - cross dissolve to fourth shot ends
• 0:22:14 - fifth credit
• 0:26:09 - cross dissolve to sixth shot begins
• 0:26:21 - cross dissolve to sixth shot ends
• 0:27:22 - cross dissolve to seventh shot begins
• 0:28:19 - cross dissolve to seventh shot ends
• 0:28:23 - sixth credit
• 0:32:13 - cross dissolve to eighth shot begins
• 0:33:13 - cross dissolve to eighth shot ends
• 0:36:11 - cross dissolve to ninth shot begins
• 0:37:01 - cross dissolve to ninth shot ends
• 0:37:11 - cross dissolve to tenth shot begins
• 0:38:18 - cross dissolve to tenth shot ends
• 0:40:16 - cross dissolve to eleventh shot begins
• 0:41:00 - cross dissolve to eleventh shot ends
• 0:41:00 - seventh credit
• 0:41:03 - folder covers screen
• 0:43:02 - twelfth shot
• 0:43:06 - Adam rips blu tac
• 0:43:19 - thirteenth shot
• 0:45:17 - cross dissolve to fourteenth shot begins
• 0:47:05 - cross dissolve to fifteenth shot ends
• 0:47:05 - eighth credit
• 0:50:02 - sixteenth shot
• 0:53:13 - cross dissolve to seventeenth shot begins
• 0:54:07 - cross dissolve to seventeenth shot ends
• 0:54:07 - ninth credit
• 0:57:03 - tenth credit
• 1:00:00 - cross dissolve to eighteenth shot begins
• 1:00:08 - cross dissolve to eighteenth shot ends
• 1:04:08 - nineteenth shot
• 1:07:11 - twentieth shot
• 1:07:11 - eleventh credit
• 1:09:22 - twenty-first shot
• 1:10:07 - adam places news clipping on board
• 1:10:24 - twenty-second shot
• 1:11:14 - adam places note on board
• 1:11:22 - twenty-third shot
• 1:12:07 - adam places picture on board
• 1:13:02 - cross dissolve to twenty-fourth shot begins
• 1:13:23 - cross dissolve to twenty-fourth shot ends
• 1:14:01 - twelfth credit
• 1:17:09 - cross dissolve to twenty-fifth shot begins
• 1:18:07 - cross dissolve to twenty-fifth shot ends
• 1:18:10 - thirteenth credit
• 1:18:15 - adam sits up
• 1:22:11 - twenty-sixth shot
• 1:22:23 - fourteenth credit
• 1:35:20 - flash to twenty-seventh shot
• 1:37:04 - “Three weeks earlier” subtitle

The times highlighted in red are important times where the main actions happen. My job was to make the audio react to those actions for example if someone gets shot the music would turn very dramatic.