Yeah, as stated above, if

Yeah, as stated above, if it’s your first project, keep it simple.

And I usually just have one scene shot over and over again. from different angles of course.

You always want to have more than you need, because you will be kicking yourself when you dont’ have enough shots while editing.

forexample, one of the scenes i’ve shot, a simple scene of a girl picking up a mobile phone call. That took me a few hours to shoot. That was one of my first few projects too. I just wanted to get all the angles perfect. It was about a 10sec scene, and i ended up about 10, 20mnin footage. 🙂