Storyboarding and blocking
Still thinking through how much to pre-storyboard and block each scene. Most likely the first few days of shooting will need to be fairly preplanned, but I’m hoping latter days will be mostly improvised, as our stage experienced actors tend to adapt quickly to what works and what doesn’t.
This will also come out to some degree in the rehearsals before any of the real shooting, because we’ll be shooting while rehearsing. One of the roles is in fact one of the actual cameramen, which strangely enough blurs the line between cast and crew, and who the actors really are. I’m not suggesting this is a normal part of improvised filmmaking, it is just an additional complexity due to the characters and story arc we’ve chosen for this series.