This video bellow is one of the first shots we did that had this problem:
This was our attempt at this after we had solved the lighting issues:
Light the Background. Evenly light the background. Umbrellas definitely make it easy to get a nice, even spread of light across the background (but always use black-backed umbrella to prevent any light from spilling forward). You can substitute small softboxes for the umbrellas, but the umbrellas are more even, more efficient, and much less expensive. I use four lights on the background when I’m shooting a full-length portrait. Aim each umbrella toward the far edge of the background (the left umbrellas will be aimed at the right edge of the background and vice versa). This “feathers” the light and will help ensure a smooth spread of light. Using an incident light meter, I try to make every part of the background that will show in the image measure within 1/4 stop. This creates a perfectly even background. "
This is what I found on the internet to help with our problem. Obviously we do not have access to all the equipment that is mentioned but we can work with the things we do have and find a better way of lighting it.
To start off with we changed our background to a projector sheet in a classroom, rather than the white sheet which is always very creased and had to keep ceaseless, which is probably why it didn't look very good on camera. As you can see this works much better and is brighter.
These two pictures show how we changed the way we lit the background and planned how it would look by having 3 people standing in as models. By focusing the light more on the background and less on the models it gives a brighter look and the white background looks white rather than grey. Shadows are also minimized by doing this.
This was our attempt at this after we had solved the lighting issues:
A strong straightforward piece of proof. Good work.
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