When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Genius Produced had just completed filming a production cycle. “Some of our payment cycles got slowed because everyone was out,” said Shields. “But I was able to get a PPP loan and keep this train moving. And actually, [the pandemic] created even more of a need for our services.”
Shields combined the safety regulations and mandates issued by the state, county, CDC and industry white papers with some of her own. “The first thing they mandated was that there had to be a COVID compliance officer,” she said. “Well, there was no training for COVID compliance officers. In fact, they didn’t exist at the time. So I searched and searched and found the first training and enlisted three of my employees.
“We shot with four cameras and I had four camerapeople that were also able to do lighting. We set up everything on remote-controlled dimmers and remote lights so that there was far less moving around. And all the cameras on the floor had remote follow focus and feeds and it got Zoomed and live cut directly to me as I sat in my little remote video village.
The cast remained off set fully masked until it was time to come to set “and then all the crew cleared and the only people on set were the camera operators,” said Shields. “I also had a licensed, on-set cosmetologist in full mask, face shield and gloves who had labeled bags for each staff member, so there was no cross-contamination of anything on anyone. And all she did was light touch-ups.
This is ludicrous right now.
Hello many essential workers r not taking COVID vaccine & Walgreens had to throw out some unused Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines, whereas vulnerable aged people over 70 years r not getting vaccine because of wrong policy of CDC . CDC’s wrong policy is wasting valuable vaccine. Pl. check