Feedback on our first shoot

We have begun filming recently and while our shot ideas are generally good and work in reality, we have come across some problems. The first one was using the equipment, but this was easy to overcome as it came with practice. Once capturing all our shot which we are filming in school, we watched them back on the Macs. Our first issue was one of the shots was not very effective and would not match up with the shot which it is supposed too, so we will have to rethink this one. Other than that, the actual action and shot types were effective, however we discovered we had not moved items which were in the background which makes the film appear much less professional as it is messy. We also realised we will have to darken these shots considerably to make them fit our genre, but this is a problem we can fix with editing. We are going to do these shots again, this time removing items we do not want featured in the shot and hopefully this will be much more effective.