Jeremy Garchow
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[Bob Zelin] “the world will go on – death be damned – and everything will continue. “
We are saying the same thing but differently. At no point did I say to not work. I am saying, work, but safely for everyone, to be clear.
Oliver is asking on “thoughts for the future” and my thoughts, others thoughts, including the people that will be paying the bills, and telling people to go work for them and earn, is that this needs to be done with consideration.
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[Oliver Peters] “And what’s your plan? If staying home is the solution, what do you say to your assistant editors or IT personnel when they are the ones who do have to go into the office?”
I do go to the office, but I don’t stay at the office. I coordinate with others to work around schedules. It sucks, it is inefficient, but it is necessary. Very often, I go late at night.
Staying home is not THE solution, it is part of a broader solution.
If someone needs to work at the office, there are guidelines. I posted some from AICP, Chicago has posted some as well. There is a lot of overlap. Most of it is, wear a mask, install barriers, keep your distance, wash your hands, keep face to face communication at a minimum (which might mean Zoom calls from inside the office), no common areas (conference rooms and otherwise), and stagger the amount of people in the office at once.
As fas as production, Chicago is still in Phase 2 (for the next few weeks) while the rest of Illinois starts Phase 3 today so we aren’t supposed to be back at work yet. Production will have to include PPE costs, costs for hair and makeup getting equipment for each talent. Having ‘zones’ on set where most of the crew does not mix air with talent (who will be maskless when the camera is rolling). We need to figure out how to stream what the camera sees to clients who aren’t going to fly in. we need to figure out how to travel (if needed) and make sure that everything stays sanitized. We need to work as lean as possible with as few crew as possible. Tons and tons of details. It’s a lot to consider, it will be a lot of work if we get a call, and we need as few hands as possible to get it done. It’s not going to fun, but it will be necessary for the foreseeable future.
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[Oliver Peters] “That’s all part of the unknown right now.”
What is known is that this is certainly NOT the flu. It is more contagious, it effects the body differently. So while there is a bunch of unknowns, there are some known facts.
Here’s a writeup of how the virus transmits and infects, using known data:
https://www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them
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[Oliver Peters] ” I’m talking about what it looks like down the road, when Covid is no longer a factor …”
But when is that? How long are we going to sit around and rest on our laurels for the one day that is sanctioned that there is no more COVID anywhere? The way things are going, we are a LONG way off from that moment in this country.
So what do you do in the meantime? Wait? Or start to setup a plan that will get people working, no matter where they are, even if it looks completely different from what it used to? I don’t see a downside to making a plan. I do see a downside of doing nothing and hoping it all just falls back in to place.
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[Oliver Peters] “So there is no “one size fits all” solution.”
Indeed there is not. It’s fine if you don’t want to talk about it or agree with me. I am trying my best to make sure I have employment as well.
One of the big conundrums is production. We will not have post without production. I don’t know if you have been reading anything the AICP has been putting out, but production will be hindered by safety measures. Things will take longer, costs will be higher, a set will not look like sets from pre-pandemic.
There is a lot to figure out and I think work from home is the easiest part to figure out. As soon as we all come to this reality, the better off we will all be as we can move forward with a plan in place. Everyone wants to get back to work and gathering, but that needs to be done carefully.
This gets updated here and there, and it goes through each department and has some guidelines. It’s worth reading:
Jeremy
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[Oliver Peters] “You have my sympathies, but just consider that decompression time ☺”
Three hours in the car is simply not decompression time. That is 3 wasted hours of nothing.
WFH has been more stressful and less stressful. We have an elementary school age child. That part is stressful. I have been working, my wife has been working, and my son is pretty much left to figure out how to educate himself most days. It’s not easy, he resists a lot of it, and it is hard on all of us and I don’t blame his resistance. School isn’t the challenge at this age. Socialization is the challenge. Right now, and this may be a sign of the level of “e-learning’ our district was (or was not) prepared for, there isn’t enough socialization with e-learning. But that very well could change, and my guess it would change very quickly.
But, not having to waste at least two hours in the car everyday relieves stress. My work day isn’t any shorter or longer, it’s about the same depending on work load, but I have more time to do other things, like help my son with his school when I can, or prepare meals, or any other number of things that I have been able to get done around the house that wouldn’t have been done before Shelter In Place. I have more ‘face to face’ meetings with clients now that I did before Shelter in Place. Everything is a google meet or zoom call, even when it really doesn’t need to be, it just seems to be how things are being done right now. And there is the odd trip to the office to get things situated, or transfer footage, or do things that can’t be done from home.
And as far as costs, Oliver, I have been talking with other friends (not in this industry) and they are all questioning the costs and resources of office space. Chicago has one of the strictest set of rules in place for opening back up. There is simply not enough space for everyone to come back according to the emerging health guidelines. So, at least for the foreseeable future, there is going to be some sort of blended work from the office, and work from home situation, and depending on what type of industry you are in, the amount of space that can be allowed to each employee, and the amount of airflow between those employees, it actually may be easier (and safer) to have everyone work from home, rather then trying to schedule time in an office space, which seems rather impractical. There is also the 4 days on, 10 days off proposal that may or may not work for everyone’s office: https://www.fastcompany.com/90503568/this-twist-on-the-four-day-work-week-could-get-people-back-to-work-without-causing-new-outbreaks
Also, summer camps are cancelled for at least the first sessions around here, and they may be cancelled all summer. We simply CAN’T go back to full time office work without some sort of child care. And that means we are exposing the entire family to health risks. Why would we do that when we can work from home? Why would an employer insist that you put your entire family at risk when you can have the same meetings virtually (again, industry dependent)?
For school starting in the fall, they aren’t sure exactly what is going to happen, but they do know it’s not going to be ‘normal’ with some sort of limited amount of students and activities.
While numbers are going down, things are looking better in a lot of areas of the world and the country, this situation is far from over. Just look at the areas that have reopened, even after mass testing and distancing, the virus always comes back. I don’t need to turn this in to a political spin, but this country has not done a good job of preparing people for what this actually means. This means we have to live with this virus and try to keep everyone as safe as possible, which means that going back to the office is going to be very different than what it used to be.
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IT looks like the timeline on a Touch Bar enabled keyboard. Look at about 9 second in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH5upOsExhk
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It would have to be a hybrid workflow. There needs to be a managed central server where everything can be stored and accessed (or you can assign access).
You can then use a variety of cloud platforms to upload footage (wherever you find the best integration with your storage, and whatever fits your budget).
And then, as I have been expressing since the beginning of ShelterInPlace, you need a tried and true proxy workflow. A good ole offline/online, but even that can be sort of hybrid as things like compositing and Motion GFX will need high res assets.
What is most helpful is a self-managed upload/download system to the cloud (so that you don’t have to watch file go up and down they just do it without much human interaction, and restart when there are hiccups), and direct pipelines in to the server (such as VPN) for when you need to really dial in and see what’s happening.
I agree that it’s not cheaper, it’s certainly not faster, and it’s much better than being exposed to or exposing anyone to a virus.
The next big hurdle is getting back to production, and what the hell that is going to look like.
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Select clip(s) in an angle.
Hold command, and select other clips in other angles, then drag them.
Is that not working for you?
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Have you tried to simply open the mutlicam and move them?
You can also right lick them and choose to sync to the monitoring angle, which if you have matching audio, might help.