Editing/Problems

All this week we have started our editing for our introduction for our film. We have cut up shots and in some cases taken sound from one shot and put it into another shot. As in some shots we had taken we didn't realise that the sound was slightly off. But we have some very good shots to work with but unfortunatley at the moment we don't have enough film to make up the 2 minute marker. So therefore we now have to do some more filming and place our titles in more carefully just incase we don't get enough film on our next shot.
Also the extra shot (close up of the taking of the bag of the coins) we have decided to put the new footage at the beginigng of our film.
But the most biggest problem is the horse scene. On the day the horse we were using started to misbehave so our rider/actor didn't feel comfortable not riding the horse without a hat ( which was very understandable for safety reasons ). But unfortunatley at the time this skipped our mind that the hat would be a problem. As when we returned to editing we realised that a riding hat wouldn't fit the western genre. So our next plan is to take out the horse shot and make different shots (still using the horse) to remake the scene. We have a couple of ideas at the moment such as filming the horses feet, showing the rider picking up the reins etc. But one idea we had was as we can't put 2 people on the horse like how we planned (due to the horse misbehaving) we thought we could instead trick the viewer into thinking that both people are on the horse when infact neither are. We have an idea of sitting our two actors on top of a car or some form of tallish object which can be moved so the background will move with the speed and action of the horses hooves which we could put in before or after. We have still not fully decided on this idea but we are going to produce a storyboard for these few scenes as we feel we will need to be very well planned and quite crafty with this.