Author: Helen

Given the imperative to get this industry working again and with the ever-growing demand for original content Twickenham Film Studios knows the importance of opening safely in order to keep the production chain moving and protect the livelihoods of all within the industry.

Measures introduced give an insight into the future of Film and TV production and how studios will be managed in this “COVID-era”.

The Studio Safe series of measures include:

• Undertaking social distancing measures – remote training is available so that incoming productions understand the measure and can frame risk assessments around the new protocols
• TFS COVID app in place, featuring a self-certification from all staff, crew and suppliers arriving on site
• New signage and complex wide swipe doors to safely limit human movement into certain areas
• TFS staff wear certified masks and gloves and are being issued with thermometers to conduct a routine daily temperature check. This is in addition to the self-declaration to confirm people have not been exposed to the virus.
• TFS staff will follow on set and in theatre protocols established by the industry task force and government guidelines
• Additional cleaning staff have been hired and are on constant vigil, ready with sanitisation procedures
• TFS have a bio-fogging specialist on standby to treat each space being hired by productions
• All studios and equipment have localised Sanitation Stations at each entrance with identifying signage
• TFS have deployed rigorous new cleaning standards and include hand sanitisers fitted next to each door in the whole studio complex
• Each space will be cleaned at the start and end of each day. In absolute alignment with green initiatives, Safe Set products will be earth friendly

This Studio Safe program has allowed for a major Hollywood production to now be in situ, having begun work from last week, for a theatrical cinema release planned later this year.

This follows on from some of our most recent Twickenham Studios creative highlights which include Bohemian Rhapsody, alongside Baby Driver, Netflix’s The Witcher and ITV’s Belgravia.