Budgets post COVID-19 will likely be smaller with production methods needing to be streamlined and scripts adjusted to allow for social distancing. Encircled was lucky it had been developed as a project that could allow for the capturing of characters in a volumetric rig or dome so the transition to production with social distancing was less difficult.
Encircled is ideal for a COVID-19 shoot as the characters have minimal contact with one another inside a single space.
Neighbours is using new production techniques to solve the COVID problem