Face shields, reduced hours and ‘pods’ among potential strategies to protect film crews

By Jackson Weaver: “Shoots in British Columbia — which has relatively few COVID-19 cases and the biggest production volume in the country — are currently gearing up to return as the province moves into Phase 3 of its restart plan.

Meanwhile, Manitoba allowed production to resume in the first week of June, and Quebec the week after. In Ontario, every region aside from Toronto was given the green light on Friday. 

But the return is far from straightforward. While all of these provinces have released COVID-19 guidelines, the guidance has only come recently, and leaves many details up to individual companies.

For Williamson, that has resulted in a plan that alters everything from how sets are constructed to how they go about filming the show. In some cases, it’s even changing what they’re writing in the first place.

“The phrase they’ve coined now is ‘depopulating the set,'” Williamson explained. “How do we mitigate and limit the number of people that you have on set and gathering around each other?”

Source: CBC News