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more shaken his wife and their 2 children live in a small one room apartment. he's worked as a backing dancer on film sets for 35 years. he's even appeared in the movie. but now he has no income whatsoever. before the cold lock down i used to get good walk i would get one or 2 songs. i managed to on about 18000 rupees every week used to take care of my family's expenses but for the boss 6 months or so there's been nothing in this. film studios opened but they are working under strict regulations as the authorities attempt to curb the spread of the virus no big wedding or battle scenes are allowed for example. but at least cinemas which were shut for months were allowed to reopen in mid october. even and then the shoot for just starting now the actors
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especially are requesting for minimal crew so our crew sizes i shrink which of course means those people who were daily wage earners will end up being the biggest loser. covered 19 continues to rage. and decided to look for another job. i do have a finding work again. after all bollywood films almost always have a happy ending hopefully there'll be one for him too. screenwriters also face new challenges in the covina era does social distancing mean you can no longer write an on screen kiss scene what about a fist fight and how good are even the best movie lines if they are spoken through a face mask we spoke to a movie writer who's struggling to convey emotion from
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a safe if slightly ironic distance. andre much to listen to classical music while he writes. his that's how he gets his best ideas. mcgregor all snowballs into the room with. the bloody nose. did you have a fight greg or don't know. creative has never been harder. yuliya excepted i told you i would sort claudio out myself a whore darling come here he cruised she kisses him. sound the alarm kissing is not allowed there's a global pandemic going on. now ok so one day my it's not really have a siren on his desk but he does have to take a number of issues into account. and just script accordingly.
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of course i could minimize the risk by simply not having any kissing scenes at all . but it makes more sense to really consider whether a scene is relevant or necessary and. be convinced. to decide whether kissing and other physical contact are really necessary. it used to be everywhere on the screens. now with the coronavirus writers are having to summon all the skills of imagination. to u.s. attorney saturday night live came up with one solution. of the was. very close just like i remember. but the situation is in fact genuinely alarming gets very good side of it now that we're all talking about a 2nd wave of people are beginning to wonder whether it will work out like they were hoping to get it but will it will be shot at all if the gets the for example
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i'm wondering whether i'll be able to go abroad if we can will it be possible to shoot in ireland or south africa as it's really hard to answer these questions and for my god there's no rush there's no. no. some film directors are already addressing the pandemic in. films this canadian thriller is about the panic that ensued when the virus 1st emerged and they only. play around you know their you know this kind of building. andres next film nobody will be wearing a face mask. you want to see an actor's facial expression you want to have all the emotions that's why we're unlikely to be seeing lots of pandemic films even though it's a collective and global experience there won't be too many people wearing masks on our screens you must have been. evil leads people who want to see films which give
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them comfort. comfort that's in short supply because of physical distancing rules. from the invertebrates when i know we're desperate for human contact at the moment i mention contact and dimension file a still partying because it's a fundamental need. and i think all of this is seeping into creative minds and we'll see a reaction because this is going to change the world for sure. until it's clear how the situation pans out screenwriters are playing it safe. doesn't. this is how most people are watching movies these days on a computer streaming services have been the big winners of the college crisis most people are more comfortable streaming a film at home on netflix and then going out to a movie theater but what does it really mean when these small screen players become
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the new masters of the universe. fills me again your to the tip of my plate. sort what. there's nothing really new about disney's live action remake moulin and yet it's written film history as the 1st big hollywood production to open not in cinemas but on streaming service disney plus these neat amazon prime and netflix did a booming business during the corona lockdowns instead of going to the movies audiences streamed films on their sofas but mark was as kleiner asks exactly what it is we're inviting into our homes he's a man on a mission his book stream land takes a critical look at our new constant companions the streaming services streaming
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streaming as the leading media offer time khurana significantly increase the frequency and intensity of streaming but he's no fan of streaming services and believes they use their great power for manipulation to their advantage and for spying on users. streaming that's because no medium comes closer to us than streaming you know there are humans capable of capturing every single step we take and analyzing it as an executive what does that do to our culture to our media landscape to how we deal with films. what is this data piracy democracy and what content being transmitted. this is definitely one of the most lethal the ones of viruses we've seen so far when covert 19 struck netflix reacted promptly with a series of documentaries on pandemics that spread fear rather than knowledge my family within one month the virus can spread throughout the country month after about widespread throughout the world the next pandemic i just i really don't know
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where or how but we know it well. when i bought it up on the from a series on pandemics i expect a lot of knowledge of those different viruses different pandemics. but if you look at these documentaries they're just dryness there's. good has no insight on offer just good versus bad in terms of content or nothing that it's. another series success stories deutschland a 29 set around the fall of the berlin wall it's distributed by amazon prime coded 19 has changed people's viewing habits dramatically some projects that streaming services could be raking in more than $100000000000.00 worldwide by 2025 yes at present it's hard for them to produce new content. and we were experiencing an incredible t.v. series boom in germany before the corona outbreak that's in the stores in my
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estimation things will ease up next spring and then that will continue. and will experience a golden age of storytelling in films and series. says it was. a few years ago they were in each market but increasingly streaming services are dominating the media landscape and turning german history into a global it. has a creative capital. until recently netflix and co flew under the radar no one paid much attention to their lack of transparency or what they did with users data but that's changing. the streaming streaming services have been forgotten in criticism of the digital transformation you know it's through entertainment that's harmless and provides a diversion that we're balanced even closer to the digital economy and the
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exploitation that comes with it no one thought of that before. those times are gone streaming services are confronting us with new challenges and the threat to the cinema as a cultural asset is just one problem. king or a film. this has a pretty tough time ahead of us when the pandemics behind us cinema will blossom again i don't think it will be like it was. the corona crisis has increased the speed of change in the media landscape exponentially yet what that means is only slowly becoming evident. that's all for our $21.00 special on cinema in the corona crisis the next big film event is the belly nala the berlin international film festival it's scheduled for february 21 but will it happen nor will corona shut it down well watch the space until then take care stay safe and
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don't forget to support your local cinema.
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