Technical Difficulties

When filming our music video, we did have some problems that we noticed in our initial screening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUZsmrzGCn4
For example in one of our close ups of the guitar, you can see the reflection of the camera and tripod. This is something that we didn't expect to be an issue when planning to shoot. As a result of this we didn't try to prevent it when filming. This error was as a result of our main conventional theme of lighting. Because we had such a big emphasis on lighting, there was not a lot we could of done, other than change location, as the shots we wanted were with the sun behind the camera, creating the shadow. Another issue was that because the background was so close to the performer, it was hard to keep him in focus, and the background out of focus, which resulted in very few shots with the performer in focus. This is why in our final screening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JirbA4cQPKY we refilmed some shots, to make sure they shots looked perfect.