During the making of the movie, there was no props. The firing is all coming from off screen. It was only afterwards that someone built a real prop machinechete that it was decided a demonstration video was needed.
The production crew got bogged down with attempting too many digital effects with the resulting lesson being that in future, they would limit themselves to only one digital effect per workshop movie.
Filmed using a mini-DV videotape in two hours on 24 May 2009.
The official premiere was screened at Baycon.