I must be cursed with bad luck

Trying to be organised and eager to start editing, our group met early this morning. Manage to get an editing kit and eventually set it up correctly, but then our tape decided it didn't want to display our whole of yesterdays work correctly. It was a thousand per cent on the write setting, and to be honest, we did notice this whilst filming, yet we were sure it wouldn't be like that when we were to capture it. It is almost pixilated in three lines across the footage - where Stan is in the workshop. Some of the group thought this was a good effect to have seeing as technology is meant to be 'taking over'. I then decided the award ceremony looked slightly dark too, even though we used lights. Are you being serious that we may just have to START AGAIN? We intend to edit what we have and then alter and re-film a few other bits and make a new edit. At least this way we have something to compare too. Time is getting tight so this is really quite annoying and frustrating.