Entertainment-Making in Ottawa
Feb. 6th, 2021 06:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineSo this has also been going on here in Ottawa in places where I wasn't looking, when I wasn't visiting. Check out the report:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/film-tv-production-ottawa-pandemic-1.5898243
If you watched last week's episode of Coroner on CBC/Gem, you've likely gotten some sense of what's involved in making shows in safer ways than usual. The logistics and workplace safety protocols are more complex now. And people still need entertainment for sanity-maintenance's sake.
For myself, I'm not binge-watching. I've been too busy looking for steadier work, and these past two weeks, actually working. I haven't given myself the time or the permission to do otherwise. And once this current contract wraps up, I won't dare to. Not with the current UI claim on its way to wrapping up in a few months with few prospects yet. (Barring any further truly helpful surprises from either Parliament Hill or Queens Park, akin to those I've gotten this past year. Or from the non-profit or private sectors. Which I can't rule out.)
But some of you might have ideas that could translate into paying work for people here in the film and TV business...and you might want to keep this site bookmarked, too:
https://ottawa.film/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/film-tv-production-ottawa-pandemic-1.5898243
If you watched last week's episode of Coroner on CBC/Gem, you've likely gotten some sense of what's involved in making shows in safer ways than usual. The logistics and workplace safety protocols are more complex now. And people still need entertainment for sanity-maintenance's sake.
For myself, I'm not binge-watching. I've been too busy looking for steadier work, and these past two weeks, actually working. I haven't given myself the time or the permission to do otherwise. And once this current contract wraps up, I won't dare to. Not with the current UI claim on its way to wrapping up in a few months with few prospects yet. (Barring any further truly helpful surprises from either Parliament Hill or Queens Park, akin to those I've gotten this past year. Or from the non-profit or private sectors. Which I can't rule out.)
But some of you might have ideas that could translate into paying work for people here in the film and TV business...and you might want to keep this site bookmarked, too:
https://ottawa.film/
