Reopening Hollywood 🎥 How VFX can solve on-set social distancing dilemmas
that their jobs are potentially in peril in the post-COVID environment. But we’re always going to need background actors, even to do digital shots.I think background actors are very important. You know, this is a moving target as we’re adapting. I mean, obviously, they’re going to get hit really big with the social distancing. So a producer might want to hire 100 people, but just because of safety, they can only hire 10, and then you have to rely on these tricks to multiply them.
But my concept is, let’s really take it to the extreme. Nobody can touch nobody, right? And you still want to put them in a big space. So my thought was this, using the paper doll cutout I mentioned, you get yourself a truck or a motor home or something like that, that has a compartment that’s cleared out that becomes a pre-lit green screen stage, and it’s all sterilized.
The two would be staring at each other, so it would almost be the same type of thing as Jack Black inplaying all these different characters — one actor playing six different roles. They sit there, and they’re performing in front of a stand-in or no one or their playback. In this case, they’re actually talking live to someone, as they would with Zoom. So if someone says something funny, the other person’s going to laugh at exactly the right time because it’s live.
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