Emmerdale has become the first UK soap to return to filming and show bosses Jane Hudson, Laura Shaw and Kate Brooks have admitted the new way of working has presented some challenges.
Not least to a specific storyline that was “too far down the line” to be changed, but now leaves them with a problem as to how to film it.
With new social distancing measures in place, meaning no one can be less than two metres apart, Emmerdale has employed various techniques, including a two metre pole and distance marks on the floor.
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Prepare to be amazed by Emmerdale
Speaking at a virtual press conference to ED! and other media, executive producer Jane, revealed viewers “will be amazed”.
“You’ll be amazed, you won’t really notice that they are two metres apart. There are some very clever camera tricks you can do.
“There’s a lot of choreography on set at the minute. It’s very clever.”
But with the heart of soaps being love, affairs, and fights, how will the show cope with these changes?
We have got a storyline coming up and we’re too far down the line to change it.
Intimate scenes
“We have lots of looks of intent which actors can pull off,” Jane said.
“There’ll be lots of looks of intent, lots of going upstairs, arriving back in scenes with shirts being tucked in.
“For the scenes where we’d normally have fights, there will be looks of menace, things being picked up in a menacing way as somebody walks towards somebody and they just happen to walk back as they’re getting closer.”
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