Swabs, masks, action! Film-making through a pandemic

September 2, 2020

You get used to sticking a six-inch cotton-wool bud up your nose and down your tonsils every morning,” says Richard Clark. He is describing his typical working day. “The masks are quite suffocating. They’re quite sweaty. You don’t drink as much water, and so people dehydrate. You get headaches. Certainly on the first week, by five o’clock, a certain kind of fugginess comes over everybody. Concentrating during those last two hours … you can feel it being a little bit harder.”

Original Article Source Credits: The Guardian ,  https://www.theguardian.com/

Article Written By: Steve Rose

Original Article Posted on: 30 July, 2020

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