The Western Cape Government says it’s focusing on using tech to revitalise the Cape Town film industry, according to the Daily Maverick. Decoding Government-speak, this likely means they’re getting behind using streaming as a viable alternative to clients and agencies travelling from their own countries. It’s easy to see the benefit to both parties: more…
One of the advantages of the Inyoni film location farm near Cape Town is that you can have the set entirely to yourself. Under normal circumstances, this might be self-evident. But it’s a huge advantage under the Covid 19 Pandemic: The set has no residents, and no neighbours, so you can implement total access control.…
The Commercial Producer’s Association of South Africa is lobbying government to allow commercial production to resume at lockdown stage 4, which commences countrywide on Friday 1 June. They’ve released a list of strict protocols for production companies to follow that addresses how to continue film making during the Covid 19 pandemic, from prep, technical recces,…
Film production, to a large extent, has remote work built into it’s processes. Departments and their HODs are briefed, and get on with their tasks, regrouping and reporting when necessary, This is of course true of both director-based, and service-based work, where briefs happen long before we get to meet our clients and colleagues in…