Filming the first part of our rough opening sequence

This was our first time filming, and we sorted out a few issues we had and made the best of a bad situation. Tom wasn't here as he was ill so we had to find new characters to play the parts, and film with just the 3 of us (Beth, Rosie & I). We spent a while searching for 3 boys to play the parts and eventually found some from another media group. Props weren't a problem as Rosie & I had both bought alcohol bottles from home to use as the teenagers drinking in the park. We then had to find somebody in the college who smokes, and borrow a cigarette so we could give it to the main boy, who Tom was meant to be playing. We had to teach the boys what to do and our main character (Jake Crick) played Tom's part well, taking on board what we said and doing it quickly so we could get the rest of our filming done, so this wasnt a problem.
We had to change our setting from Tom's house to the school canteen, as it would have been a problem for Jake to take the camera home as he had work of his own to do. We changed it so our main character now lives and goes home to an orfans institute (or something of that kind) to make it more realistic.