Before production began the Director was nearly killed in a car accident when the vehicle he was driving caught fire in the outside lane of the M1 motorway near Sheffield and he was forced to take evasive action and move onto the hard shoulder. Though extremely fortunate the irony of this situation was not lost on him.
Principle photography was completed in only 18 days despite several potential disasters involving wrongly assembled camera equipment from the hire facility and the loss of film headers at the processing company.