I was the only person who didn’t attend our live fantasy football draft. I zoomed in, and felt like George Bluth sending a surrogate. Also I ate ice cream sandwiches in bed so it was a lot like that situation
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So, I ended up driving 20+ hours straight on a trip out west and got here yesterday morning. I was feeling good, so I blew through my plan of stopping at a hotel, making an hour of research irrelevant.
I stopped for gas, a McDonald’s drive-through, and some rest areas, where I thought it was safer to use the restroom than gas stations. They are uncrowded and sometimes I never saw another person after dark. Maybe 75% of the people going inside to use the facilities at rest areas in Iowa and Nebraska were wearing masks.
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But they saw you. They…saw…you.
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I briefly checked out this dude’s twitter. One of his followers is Soledad O’Brien. Could be bc he was a co-author of an article, “The Curve is Already Flat” on Medium some months ago that has since been removed. I vaguely remember it.
If you’re not working full time, and feel safe enough to do it, I’d do it. I really want to know what shooting in Atlanta looks like right now from a safety standpoint. If there’s one thing Hollywood’s proven, it’s that Atlanta is used to save a buck and the statewide restrictions are minimal in comparison to a place like CA.
Admittedly, I haven’t been paying nearly as much attention to the ramp up of production for the TV season as I usually do (due to working a ton), but can’t imagine many shows are just going business as usual. I haven’t heard a peep (not been actively looking) about how Tyler Perry’s experiment has gone. The only thing I heard several months ago was that Blumhouse Productions was already shooting in L.A. with the source telling me that the people involved with that company were willing to assume the risk. Makes sense, though, if you look at it really deeply. Jason Blum really loves the psychological aspects of horror.
I think the scenario you laid out is basically the, ‘you’re on call in case an extra tests positive’. It’s also likely partially due to what you said about not wanting many on set. As you know, the agony of production is standing around for an hour plus, shooting for 5 minutes, and standing around for an hour plus waiting for the next shot. It would be great to figure out a way to handle the standing around better.
Just heard that my cousin’s daughter who’s back to school for college, who doesn’t party, who wears a mask, but who is required to attend some in person classes, got pozzed. :(
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It sounds like they are taking things seriously. I haven’t read every detail, as I’m not planning on doing any extra work for a while because of COVID, but productions are paying for mandatory tests for extras, you have to sign all sorts of shit, etc.
I heard Tyler Perry filmed a full season of a show in 2.5 weeks.
Got invited to a 150 person wedding in downtown Chicago on the 20th, lol not going
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Ummmm, maybe you missed the memo… we got a vaccine coming three weeks before Thanksgiving
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492 new cases in the Czech Republic before 6:30 PM. To put that into perspective, there were 504 cases on all of Tuesday
We nearly broke 700 yesterday. I say we shatter 700 today and possibly make it to 800 
For the third day in a row, Prague broke their own record for most new cases in 24 hours.
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I read Tyler Perry’s Camp Quarantine draft document and it was pretty good. It used the very invasive Abbott Rapid Tests and was something people would have to do every day. The living quarters seemed quite unpleasant to me. I never heard whether he came in on time for the first shows (there were two I think that were going in production one right after the other that were scheduled for late July through middle of August, if I remember correctly).
When I read the thing, I thought it looked very much like he had under budgeted how long it would take to do the safety procedures if they actually followed them properly. My guess was that he would end up at something like a week over what he had planned, unless he had built that into the schedule (I’d imagine it as a 2.5 day pad to the schedule in his budget). It’s very important to note that Perry is extremely well known for being one of the most efficient directors in the Hollywood system. Not very many people can do what he does. I thought it was ambitious but thought if anyone could do it, it was him.
I can’t imagine being an extra at the beginning of the resumption of production would be fun, but it might be profitable for you. You were already getting a decent amount of work and it could be a springboard to more for you if you could accept the risk. I wouldn’t set foot on a set until saliva tests are widespread and reliable.
Recent single-day positive test rates in some college towns have been as high as 45% for people in the 18-24 age group, Parson said.
Holy shit.
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The sad thing is we don’t know if they’re first generation or second generation on the infection tree. If they’re first generation…
Are you on the Batman movie?
Where was what you worked on filmed? Also, what studio/sound stage company?
There are probably quite a few big movies that are going to be done in the UK over the next year because the pandemic was handled much better there than here once you get past the early stage.
Went to a restaurant for the first time since March. 3 tables outside 15’ apart - perfect right? Walked in to the hostess and none of the sushi chefs had masks on while working on rolls. Nope’d on out of there. Maybe next year.
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Sound stage is just where you did the construction. Was it mostly a location shoot?
Leavesden and Pinewood are examples of sound stage companies. They’re called studios, but that’s kind of a butchering of what it really is based on out of date nomenclature now sort of being used properly.
In the old days, the movie studios (like Warner Bros.) all had their own sound stages and still do where they would build their sets. Technically, the studio is where this is constructed. That’s why most of the sound stage companies call themselves studios (proper term is stages, in my opinion), though it can get a bit confusing since they’re not actually funding the movies if that makes sense.
What kind of testing was on set? Nasal, saliva?
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Looks to me that the Czech government is mostly going, “Fuck it. Let’s do what Sweden did.”
They’re convinced that the virus is weaker than it used to be while nearly all independent virologists and epidemiologists say it isn’t.
They know that basically any restriction is going to be extremely unpopular. So they’ve decided to stop giving a shit. It’s an almost Trumpian approach to covid.