the search continues and my colleague melissa holroyd is here what to help guide us through now melissa we just saw a bit even andrew lloyd webber says that these methods these gimmicks aren't really sustainable they're not particularly profitable what do you think could we conceivably go back to barge scale performances in person before there's a vaccine. while the sun shines we can do anything that's what i think as long as that summer and we can go outside we can do a whole lot of stuff that's if we're talking about indoor concepts. then i think they have to find a vaccine really fast because all of this stuff costs money it will cost money all this plexiglas the pixie glass it's between us now. it will cost money and you know a lot of performance and a lot of then you simply don't have that money at the moment we have the salzburg festival on and they have it mean that we're seeing some wonderful pictures from the opera electra from side yesterday i mean they have invested a great deal of money into their into the measures that they've taken but even then even the austrians with all

so will it pay off i've got my colleague melissa holroyd here with me melissa festivals of the performing arts really all over the world are looking to see if this is going to work out and with an outbreak a new outbreak just down the road it's possible that they still might have to cancel this that's right they might have to cancel it at the moment we are watching a much bigger production than anything that's going on insults vocal anywhere else it's called how to put on a production how to put on a major festival during corona time that's what we're really watching for kind of the fun to do even there for a while no ok that's not the production we're watching oh no we won't know whether it works until it's really over and i'm sure the artistic director isn't going to rest until until it's actually over that's that's when he's actually going to sleep and go ok we have done it ok so now besides just wearing masks melissa tell us what are they doing to make sure that the show can go on yeah i mean i'm sure as you can imagine actually putting on a show putting on a production involves peopl

architects for a future there so what is the future for architects my colleague melissa holroyd is here with me now mostly i can't help but think when we talk about the future and architecture i have all these images in my mind of you know plexiglas bubbles floating somewhere in space and ask a waiter's to nowhere and building robots that is absolutely not what these people are talking about i don't need a little yeah i have these these ideas as well but architects to feature they're all about recycling and i also want to see us move away from building materials such as concrete and towards timber so they're doing yeah there are plenty of advantages with using timba it can be as strong as steel it's lights if it's very it's if you can put up buildings in no time when you use it. everything is recyclable even the sawdust can be recycled is a very very long list of advantages and worst case scenario when the building is demolished you can also you can always burn it as few really rich is going to say we don't burn down but i guess that could be an advantage of her here we're looking at a

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festival coming up in real life that's the venice film festival in september and my colleague melissa holroyd has taken a look at the lineup for us there's always a lot of energy focused on venice in the film industry this year even more yeah cos because this year a lot of other things have been cancelled and so its importance is just going up a whole lot. so tell me a little bit about what films you're excited about this is banished from the past well one of the things i'm excited about is the fact that 8 of the films have this you've been directed by women last year it was only 2 so that's one thing the highest profile film in competition is by chloe's out it's not imagine and i think another want to keep an eye out for is nice marks by it susanna really it's a she also wrote the screenplay it's about col muxes youngest daughter now and i think we've got a clip of that then we will take let's take a look. just as the workers of the creatures of a terribly of idlers. women and the creatures of an terran a man. go back to. your country. will no longer be mine like. you not been happy with me.

for you know well done for them for doing it melissa holroyd call the whole thing. the whole show i should say quite a unique occasion melissa yeah well i'm not even sure if it actually was and the cajun some of it was pre-taped in the lead up to the awards ceremony m.t.v. was very very secretive about how they were going to pull this off in the midst of a pandemic and i think a lot of people thought that that was been to avoid crowds because of corona but now maybe not so virtually at least it took place of iconic places across new york to show as a spur to on of the spirit and the resilience of the city the show was very very heavily on video effects there was green screen all over the place and i'm pretty sure there was a lot of lip sinking for the people that will masks i think they probably didn't even need to pull that off and lady gaga was a great boss but she didn't win the big prize no she didn't win the big price she won 5 prizes and she also want to try con award which is a new award that recognizes a performer who is a company in 3 or more areas she shoul

well done for them for doing that melissa holroyd call the whole thing. the whole show i should say quite a unique occasion melissa yeah well i'm not even sure if it actually was an occasion some of it was pre-taped in the lead up to the awards ceremony m.t.v. was very very secretive about how they were going to pull this off in the midst of a pandemic and i think a lot of people thought that it was been to avoid crowds because of corona but now maybe not so virtually at least it took place at the iconic places across new york to show to all of the spirit and the resilience of the city the show was very very heavily on video effects that was green screen all over the place and i'm pretty sure there was a lot of lip sinking for the people that will mosques i think they probably didn't even need to pull that off and lady gaga was some great mass but she didn't win the big prize no she didn't win the big price she won $5.00 prizes and she also want to try corn award which is a new award that recognizes a performer who is accomplished in 3 or more areas she sh

well done for the melissa holroyd the whole thing. the whole show i should say quite a unique occasion yeah well i'm not even sure if it actually was and the cajun some of it was pretty tight in the lead up to the awards ceremony m.t.v. was very very secretive about how they were going to pull this off in the midst of a pandemic and i think a lot of people thought that it was built to avoid crowds because of corona but now maybe not so virtually at least it took place of iconic places across new york to show this to all of the spirits. in the resilience of the city the show was very very heavily on video effects there was green screen all over the place and i'm pretty sure there was a lot of lip sync for the people that will mosques i think they probably didn't even need to pull that off and lady gaga was some great dance but she didn't win the big prize you know she didn't win the big price she won 5 prizes and she also want to try khan award so which is a new award that recognizes a performer who is a compass in 3 or more areas she

well done for them for doing that melissa holroyd call the whole thing. the whole show i should say quite a unique occasion melissa yeah well i'm not even sure if it actually was and the cajun some of it was pre-taped in the lead up to the awards ceremony m.t.v. was very very secretive about how they were going to pull this off in the midst of the pandemic and i think a lot of people thought that that was been to avoid crowds because of corona but now maybe not so virtually at least it took place of iconic places across new york to show to all of the spirit and the resilience of the city the show was very very heavily on video effects there was green screen all over the place and i'm pretty sure there was a lot of lip sync for the people that will masks i think they probably didn't even need to pull that off and lady gaga was some great dance but she didn't win the big prize no she didn't win the big price she won $5.00 prizes and she also want to try con award which is a new award that recognizes a performer who is a come in 3 or more areas she should hav