Filming "Get Off My Land"

Today was the day for filming our own version of "Get off my land". We chose to begin filming at mid day, so that we had a good few hours before it started getting dark, as when we were filming "The Hangover" last year, we found this a problem. All was well and good and we arrived on location, with everyone set up and in costume for around 2pm. 
The first problem we faced was that stupidly we hadn't thought about the wifi not reaching as far as the field we were filming in. We took the laptop, however we couldn't get the clip to play, and none of us were able to get 3G on our phones. However luckily between all of us, we were able to cobble together what order things came in. 
We had to get all of the parts that Aimee's dad was in first over and done with, because he didn't want to be kept away from work for too long. We decided the best thing to do was to film his lines continuously, as in the actual film you never see the three characters in the same shot. 
Andrew had a bit of trouble learning his lines, so we had to shout the lines to him, so he could then recite them. Even though we got us saying the lines on camera, when we come to editing the final film, we can cut these out. We also had to make sure that the other characters were positioned in the right place, so that we had the eye lines right. This is something we had to play around with a little bit. 
Another issue we had was when we went to shoot the gun to make the birds fly out of the tree, the birds flew in completely the wrong direction. However this wasn't a problem that we could have accounted for ourselves. 
Getting the shot of James dying was another tricky part, it was difficult for  him to act the impact effectively and fall in the right place. This was the thing that took the most shots, but I hope that we have managed to achieve something that matches the real film. 
When it came to Abi having fake blood splattered on her, we could only find blue food colouring, rather than red, which clearly isn't suitable. The only other thing that would have been fairly acceptable was using watered down tomato sauce. We added some bbq sauce to it, to achieve the deeper red colour, to make it look a little more authentic. 
Despite having to have very smelly food substances wiped across her face, Abi was an extremely good sport and did the part justice.
Occasionally we all got a little bit frustrated with each other, but I think its just because we wanted to get the best out of each other. 
Hopefully we have managed to create something that is similar to the real thing, but I guess we wont know until we start editing!