{"id":12998,"date":"2020-04-09T10:41:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T14:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/sputnik-media-reworks-wtfock-amid-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2020-04-09T12:07:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T16:07:06","slug":"sputnik-media-reworks-wtfock-amid-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/sputnik-media-reworks-wtfock-amid-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Sputnik Media Reworks wtFOCK Amid COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Benelux production company Sputnik Media has created #wtFOCKdown<\/em>, a social distance drama that takes viewers into wtFOCK<\/em> characters\u2019 respective quarantine situations.<\/p>\n An adaptation of NRK in Norway\u2019s SKAM<\/em>, wtFOCK<\/em> was in the midst of filming new episodes of the popular series when the coronavirus pandemic put a halt to production. The team behind the series came up with #wtFOCKdown<\/em>, which enables the show’s actors to film themselves at home and the director and post-production team to also work from home to piece the clips together.<\/p>\n All of the characters in wtFOCK<\/em> have their own social media accounts through which the story world continues. They also interact with each other and even pop up in real-life situations, blurring the boundary between fiction and reality. In #wtFOCKdown<\/em>, clips of the characters\u2019 stories are posted online throughout the week, with the scenario adapted daily to match the situation of the day. In the videos, viewers see the main characters and how the lockdown impacts them and their living environment and how they\u2019re coping. They also try to convey the importance of the stay-at-home measures to the show\u2019s younger-skewing audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Benelux production company Sputnik Media has created #wtFOCKdown, a social distance drama that takes viewers into wtFOCK characters\u2019 respective quarantine situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1033,"featured_media":12999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[3795,3796,3797],"class_list":["post-12998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-wtfockdown","tag-sputnik-media","tag-wtfock","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n