TIL: Today I Learned...
If they want you to do it exactly the same way, then why reshoot it?
fir a 2 person scene, you’ll have 3 basic setups: ‘coverage’ which captures both characters, then pov fir each character
But you’ll also have maybe 3-5 additional cameras capturing different frames
So you’re going to shoot any scene 3 times - coverage and 2 povs
Each of those shoots might have 3-5 takes for any number of reasons (forgot lines, extras did something weird, didn’t ‘quite’ get the acting right
So when that scene gets to editing, the editor has maybe 20-40 versions of the same thing
If both actors perform the same actions throughout, it makes it much easier to edit