Shooting technique
Lou and I went down to Henley again tonight, and worked through episode 2 in more detail. We now have the full episode 2 scene breakdown.
The way filming will probably work, is to go into each episode with a scene list and the characternuity journal, a summary of the character history so far, and improvise each scene twice, with two cameras shooting at once. This gives us two angles to edit from, with a primary version of the scene and a backup version, giving a total of four shots per scene.
In a previous improvised film Lou and I made, the backup shots were required in case there were continuity or characternuity problems unnoticed in the primaries during the shoot, or in case a slight change in direction was required after considering the rest of the footage in post. With the two cameras, which will be a change for us, this should allow us more choices for angle and the ability to do cutaways without having to stage them later, which will also reduce continuity errors.