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By George Robbins

The coronavirus pandemic has been a massive drain on just about everyone at this point and there is absolutely no telling when it will end. Due to the fact this pandemic won’t really end any time soon, many have been forced to find a way to adapt to the new world order around them. Among those businesses are the ones that are in the entertainment industry such as production studios and movie theaters. All movie theaters were forced to shut down when the pandemic was announced back in mid-March and simultaneously all movie and television productions shut down as well. Now that businesses are slowly starting to reopen we are starting to get new information in regards to how the entertainment industry will function moving forward.

For starters, businesses that are starting to reopen will have the same rules in place that businesses that have been open have. They will need to have people wear masks if they want entry to the building and they will need to keep them on. Also, the businesses must keep their establishments sanitized properly at all times especially if they have customers coming through. Places that will be reopening soon like movie theaters, which are mostly set to reopen by the beginning of July, will have extra guidelines in place. They will have to enforce the social distancing order, but also keep people from sitting near one another during movies. This is something that is similarly shared by movie and television productions that will need to be adhered to.

Guidelines are being established almost everywhere in regards to how things should be moving forward when it comes to people going back to work. So of course there are going to be new rules in place for production companies to follow. This has been something that was being discussed ever since this all began and it seems that now there is a true national set of guidelines for people to follow. The state of Georgia already created its guidelines which are very similar to the guidelines in place for other businesses and especially movie theaters. There are just a couple more things that they must include while working on films to keep in accordance with the rules.

The new official guidelines that production studios must follow to continue working on their projects is a 22-page document consisting of mostly similar rules for other businesses. Also included in those rules are guidelines to keeping people separate by creating zones, when possible, for different groups during production. Actors must not get close to one another during scenes, which means camera tricks must be used to create the illusion that they are near one another. When off camera, all actors must keep masks on and adhere to the social distancing rules. Also included is the fact that cast and crew on set must be very limited with some parts of crew simply not allowed to be there at certain times. These rules are now a part of the guidelines that all productions must now follow in order to get back to work.