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CRAFTING HISTORY FOR HOUSE OF THE DRAGON
" Everybody on the show wanted us to
put our stamp on what we were doing. "
Martinez's time in the throne room included a 25-page night wedding
scene in Episode 5, which he personalized with a brigade of tungsten
Source Four Lekos. Says Martinez, " Set dec had these long, beautiful
tables with candles on them, so we decided to point [roughly] 100 Lekos
straight down from the top of the studio to bounce off the tables. "
Virtual Assist
In the world of House of the Dragon, only three sources of light exist:
firelight, moonlight and daylight. When shooting exteriors around
Leavesden, that daylight was often unreliable - though Wagner says
the English weather was an improvement over Game of Thrones' Irish
base of operations. " In London, there's no consistency to the weather,
but Northern Ireland was definitely more unforgiving, " he recalls. " In
Ireland, you could literally have four seasons in one day, which is what I
experienced on 'Battle of the Bastards.' " That said, England's notoriously
overcast weather wasn't a problem on Leavesden's V Stage, a new virtual-production
facility with upwards of 2,600 LED panels offering up faux
sunlight on demand. House of the Dragon was the first show to use the
new 7,100-square-foot wraparound virtual-production environment.
Wagner's time on the V Stage included an extended sequence set
on the bridge to Dragonstone, the ancestral seat of House Targaryen. A
practical location in Northern Spain was used for the bridge on Game of
Thrones, but a virtual set proved more feasible, considering the 20-odd
characters - and flying dragons - required for an Episode 2 standoff.
The V Stage was also used extensively for dragon-riding sequences.
When filming these scenes, Wagner opted for a hybrid approach: For
wide shots, the LED panels were turned blue, essentially morphing the
space into a bluescreen stage. For close-ups, sky backgrounds were
placed on the LED panels as in-camera composites.
For an extensive dragon-fight sequence in Episode 10 - shot by del
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