The problems faced whilst filming

During the filming process for our horror movies, we encountered many problems, however the worst problem by far was the lighting.
As we were filming during Autumn, the sun kept setting in awkward times, mostly around 4pm, which gave us a 40 minute period of time to actually film an entire film, which set us back considerably.
The original timing for our film was to start on a Tuesday, and finish either on the Wednesday or at a push, Thursday. Instead it took us until the following Tuesday to finish filming.
However after the filming, we noticed that in one scene it was very dark, and then all of the sudden it was bright again, due to the early sunset. This was quite a pain for us as those two scenes were awkward to film and as a result were awkward to re film. Even more so, as the tripod we had the second time was very loose and so it was difficult to get a shot steady and keep it steady.
The third problem was the setting. Although it was perfect for our film, we had to work around the forest, this lead to many problems such as angles, keeping the tripod level and sometimes would require us to climb into bushes and up trees to get the appropriate shot.
Finally we had to tear Craig's jeans for the final shots, but we forgot to bring a knife and scissors. This led to a series of events that would fit a comedy film, but at the time, it was everything but funny.
The first thing we tried was breaking through the fabric using big pieces of wood, which were all cold, and damp (some of which with things I care not to mention) and ultimately we failed with that idea.
Finally we just decided to knock around the surrounding area asking people to cut Craig's jeans with a knife. Surprisingly we found somebody to do it with the first knock, but his children were curious about the filming, and while we were filming, he and his children came down to watch us film.
This was quite a problem as they were softly talking and when they approached they broke sticks ruining the shot. We allowed them to stay in return for doing us this favour, and in the end they left quite a short while after arriving, but it delayed us about 10 minutes, and we had to pack up early because of the sunset.
In summary, with all the above problems (and all of the dog muck), we got quite a valuable insight into how much harder it is to film a movie as we initially imagined.