The big challenge is producing with the pandemic

For the writer Alberto Barrera Tyszka the only true thing in the horizon is the uncertainty, making it very difficult to know what the audience is expecting after the pandemic, and even to understand when it will end. “Seriously, will the pandemic be overcome? How? For now, the best thing is to learn to live with it. And that
—in terms of production— is extremely difficult, complicated, costly. I think that this is what will probably define for a while the rest of the development of the industry: to produce with the pandemic. This is the big challenge,” he said after commenting that it is necessary to have your eyes wide open instead of expecting to write rapidly.

He stated that storytelling is going to change because production conditions are going to demand a different story. “We will have fewer bodies together, less saliva, less exchange of all types, less action, fewer multitudes… But I am sure that will produce much more creativity, new madness, and different bets and narrative risks we didn´t have before,” he said.

He believes that, with or without pandemic, now there is a more critical, elaborate audience that has much greater audiovisual consumption. “I started to write under the conceptual tyranny of open television, the Decalogue for contents was ferocious and inflexible. What happens now offers fantastic freedom, but is also very demanding”.

He explained that although writers are used to working at home, the situation has affected him because the work includes the creative exchange and debate.

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