We had many interesting moments during filming while doing extreme close-up shots of the chess pieces. The most interesting part was having to battle the camera to focus on the pieces. But through the battle, I discovered that the use of focus and unfocus could add to our shots. One of the Queen's looking at the other, but only for that view to be interrupted by another piece. It just seems straight out of a professional film. But the risk of doing something like this with a phone camera is that it can just look like poor camera-manship. Like I didn't bother to have the clip in focus and it just looks messy. But that is the price that comes with being artistic. Anyways, here is the shot:
Another example of us playing around with focus: