如今,各行各业都感受到冠状病毒大流行的影响,影视行业受到的影响尤其大。
全球范围内无数制作搁置,不管是大制作还是独立影片。不过,一些在偏远地区的拍摄工作仍在私下进行,一些国家也在考虑允许恢复拍摄。与此同时,电影制作行业的人士也在认真思考下一步。
隔离期为了节省时间,制片公司主要做剧本润色,也抓紧机会和编剧、演员以及导演进行沟通。纽约制片联盟副主席,FilmNation Entertainment(曾拍摄《降临》、《大病》)执行副总裁迈克尔·杰克曼表示,某些情况下也会进行视频试镜,或为将来的拍摄寻找场地。
“我们开始听业内的意见,人们希望7月中旬、7月下旬、8月、9月能重新投入前期制作或正式制作,”杰克曼告诉《财富》杂志。“然而显然要受现实限制。”
杰克曼说:“快速精确地检测是否感染”可能对恢复制作帮助最大。英国广播公司(BBC)和明星兼导演泰勒•佩里等人之前考虑过将演员和剧组共同隔离制作电影,然而后来放弃。杰克曼承认,实施起来可能更复杂,不过也并非完全不可能。
“如果真这么做,演员和剧组很长时间都不能跟家人见面,牺牲更大。不过可以当做在偏远地区拍电影一样,做好隔离准备然后拍摄,”他说。
但随着恢复制作,加强检测和隔离并不是疫情期间唯一要注意的。片场可能出现一些小变化,甚至可能永久持续下去。
“电影公司显然都在讨论,从如何防护,到化妆师和发型师跟演员工作时应该戴什么……”杰克曼还补充说,参加现场拍摄的人可能要用自己的工具,避免共享。
餐饮和后勤服务也将发生变化。杰克曼说,参与电影拍摄的人不能再排队拿自助餐,饭菜可能要单独准备,而且很可能由穿着防护服的餐饮人员分发。
比如顺手就从餐桌上抓起M&M豆吃,“这种情况不会再发生了,”他说。“会更加注意,可以说我们会注意各种小细节,避免人们感染病毒。各方面细节都在研究。”
连聘用临时工的做法可能也会改。
“我们需要200人时,是真的找200人来,还是只找20人,然后考虑用特效做成更多人?“他说。“很多情况都在改。”
其他考虑中的调整包括:限制核心人员数量,其他人员可远程工作;也可以使用虚拟现实头盔查看拍摄地;拍摄前、拍摄中和拍摄后让清洁人员给设备消毒。制片方也在研究不同的地点适合哪些做法,杰克曼也指出,适合纽约的做法在洛杉矶可能行不通。
杰克曼希望,聚集工作等行为最终能变回疫情前的状态。如果病毒的威胁性变低或者研制出疫苗,可能会停止检测。但从长远来看,其他做法可能会继续。
“希望人们聚在一起的工作方式能恢复正常,我认为(行业)会很欢迎,”他说。“但很多疫情期间的做法会保留,如果再遇到类似情况,就不必再费心安排。”
杰克曼和公司都盼望尽快复工。其中一部片子《The Map of Tiny Perfect Things》靠着人们加班加点,赶在疫情引发的停工前完成拍摄。另一部《遁世者》在停工时正在蒙特利尔进行前期制作,公司仍与剧组保持联系。
尽管有人担心,随着制作推迟,复工时从拍摄点到特定工作人员等资源都会很紧张。但杰克曼说,还好公司规模小,能迅速运转调整。
此外他指出,很多电影行业的自由职业者突然失业,对这个行业来说这倒是个“好现象。
现在所有人都只能等,为未来仔细规划。
“我认为,当前的情况迫使每个人思考如何适应,如何灵活应对,如何变得更聪明,更有创造力,如何相互支持,如何过守望相助挺过现在这种难关,”杰克曼说。“这点很重要。”(财富中文网)
译者:冯丰
审校:夏林
如今,各行各业都感受到冠状病毒大流行的影响,影视行业受到的影响尤其大。
全球范围内无数制作搁置,不管是大制作还是独立影片。不过,一些在偏远地区的拍摄工作仍在私下进行,一些国家也在考虑允许恢复拍摄。与此同时,电影制作行业的人士也在认真思考下一步。
隔离期为了节省时间,制片公司主要做剧本润色,也抓紧机会和编剧、演员以及导演进行沟通。纽约制片联盟副主席,FilmNation Entertainment(曾拍摄《降临》、《大病》)执行副总裁迈克尔·杰克曼表示,某些情况下也会进行视频试镜,或为将来的拍摄寻找场地。
“我们开始听业内的意见,人们希望7月中旬、7月下旬、8月、9月能重新投入前期制作或正式制作,”杰克曼告诉《财富》杂志。“然而显然要受现实限制。”
杰克曼说:“快速精确地检测是否感染”可能对恢复制作帮助最大。英国广播公司(BBC)和明星兼导演泰勒•佩里等人之前考虑过将演员和剧组共同隔离制作电影,然而后来放弃。杰克曼承认,实施起来可能更复杂,不过也并非完全不可能。
“如果真这么做,演员和剧组很长时间都不能跟家人见面,牺牲更大。不过可以当做在偏远地区拍电影一样,做好隔离准备然后拍摄,”他说。
但随着恢复制作,加强检测和隔离并不是疫情期间唯一要注意的。片场可能出现一些小变化,甚至可能永久持续下去。
“电影公司显然都在讨论,从如何防护,到化妆师和发型师跟演员工作时应该戴什么……”杰克曼还补充说,参加现场拍摄的人可能要用自己的工具,避免共享。
餐饮和后勤服务也将发生变化。杰克曼说,参与电影拍摄的人不能再排队拿自助餐,饭菜可能要单独准备,而且很可能由穿着防护服的餐饮人员分发。
比如顺手就从餐桌上抓起M&M豆吃,“这种情况不会再发生了,”他说。“会更加注意,可以说我们会注意各种小细节,避免人们感染病毒。各方面细节都在研究。”
连聘用临时工的做法可能也会改。
“我们需要200人时,是真的找200人来,还是只找20人,然后考虑用特效做成更多人?“他说。“很多情况都在改。”
其他考虑中的调整包括:限制核心人员数量,其他人员可远程工作;也可以使用虚拟现实头盔查看拍摄地;拍摄前、拍摄中和拍摄后让清洁人员给设备消毒。制片方也在研究不同的地点适合哪些做法,杰克曼也指出,适合纽约的做法在洛杉矶可能行不通。
杰克曼希望,聚集工作等行为最终能变回疫情前的状态。如果病毒的威胁性变低或者研制出疫苗,可能会停止检测。但从长远来看,其他做法可能会继续。
“希望人们聚在一起的工作方式能恢复正常,我认为(行业)会很欢迎,”他说。“但很多疫情期间的做法会保留,如果再遇到类似情况,就不必再费心安排。”
杰克曼和公司都盼望尽快复工。其中一部片子《The Map of Tiny Perfect Things》靠着人们加班加点,赶在疫情引发的停工前完成拍摄。另一部《遁世者》在停工时正在蒙特利尔进行前期制作,公司仍与剧组保持联系。
尽管有人担心,随着制作推迟,复工时从拍摄点到特定工作人员等资源都会很紧张。但杰克曼说,还好公司规模小,能迅速运转调整。
此外他指出,很多电影行业的自由职业者突然失业,对这个行业来说这倒是个“好现象。
现在所有人都只能等,为未来仔细规划。
“我认为,当前的情况迫使每个人思考如何适应,如何灵活应对,如何变得更聪明,更有创造力,如何相互支持,如何过守望相助挺过现在这种难关,”杰克曼说。“这点很重要。”(财富中文网)
译者:冯丰
审校:夏林
The effects of the coronavirus pandemic are felt in every type of industry, but the way it shut down film and television production was particularly abrupt.
Countless productions, from big budget to indie fare, have gone on hold around the globe. Some remote work continues behind the scenes, and some countries are considering allowing shoots to resume. In the meantime, those in film production are thinking hard about what comes next.
To save time while in isolation, production companies have focused on tasks like polishing scripts and connecting with writers, actors, and directors whose schedules were too busy before the pandemic hit. In some cases, video casting and contracts for future locations are being taken care of as well, says Michael Jackman, vice chair of the New York Production Alliance and executive vice president at FilmNation Entertainment (Arrival, The Big Sick).
“We’re starting to hear industrywide, that people are hoping for mid-July, late July, August, September to get back into pre-production or production,” Jackman tells Fortune. “It will obviously be subject to the realities of the world.”
“Readily available testing that is fast and accurate” would probably be most helpful to get productions back to work, Jackman says. Some, including the BBC and Tyler Perry, have thrown around the possibility of quarantining cast and crew together for productions—an idea that Jackman acknowledges might be more complicated, though not entirely out of the question.
“It will involve more sacrifice on the part of the cast and crew not seeing their families for a longer period of time, but we will treat it like we are on a film shooting in a remote location and isolate for the prep and shoot,” he says.
But testing and quarantining wouldn’t be the only practices in place as production resumes. There will likely be a number of small-scale changes on set that could even stick around permanently.
“Studios are obviously having these conversations—everything from what will people be wearing, what will makeup and hair artists… be wearing while they’re working on actors?” Jackman says, adding that those doing construction on set will likely be given their own tool sets to avoid sharing equipment.
Catering and craft service spreads will also see a change. Instead of lining up to make oneself a plate at a buffet, those on set will probably receive individually prepared meals, likely handed out by caterers in protective gear, Jackman says.
And forget being able to grab a handful of M&Ms from a craft services table. “That’s not going to happen that way anymore,” he says. “It’s going to be a much more—call it a curated process for all the little things that just sort of might be antithetical to protecting people from potential virus exposure. We’re looking at everything.”
There’s a good chance that even the practice of hiring extras will change.
“When we need 200 people, are we going to have 200 people in the crowd, or are we going to do 20 people in that crowd and start looking at CGI?” he says. “A lot of it is really evolving.”
Other possibilities under consideration include limiting the number of essential crew on a set while others monitor activity remotely; partially using virtual reality headsets for tech scouting locations; and using a cleaning crew to sanitize sets before, during, and after a shoot. And producers are also looking into which practices would serve different locations best—as Jackman points out, what works in New York City may not work in L.A.
Jackman hopes that some things, such as congregating in groups, can eventually go back to how they were pre-pandemic. Testing would also likely stop once the virus becomes less of a threat or a vaccine is developed, but other practices could remain in place in the long run.
“Hopefully the ability to gather in groups goes back to normal, and I think [the industry] would follow that,” he says. “But I definitely think a lot of these practices are going to stay because then you don’t have to enact them when you have a situation like this again.”
Jackman and his company are eager to get things moving as soon as they’re able. One project—The Map of Tiny Perfect Things—just barely completed filming before pandemic-induced shutdowns, after they worked overtime to finish ahead of schedule. Another, Misanthrope, was in pre-production in Montreal when it was shut down, but the company is staying in touch with the crew.
Though there are concerns that resources—from locations to specific crew members—will be in high demand as various delayed productions try to restart their work, Jackman says his company is small enough to be able to pivot and move quickly.
Plus, he points out, it would be a “good problem” for the industry, which has seen many of its freelance production workers suddenly unemployed, to have.
For now, everyone just has to wait, while planning carefully for the future.
“I think that this situation forces everyone to figure out how to be adaptive, how to be nimble, how to be smart, how to be creative, how to support each other, how to help each other through the complexities of this,” Jackman says. “And I think that’s important.”