Making Game of Thrones: The cold of The North
Well of course it’s snowy at The Wall…
Day 77: From the bottom of a quarry, our VFX supervisor looks up at the ridge above us and shakes his head. As we all shiver in 4°C shadow, he’s praying the sun won’t rise over the ridge and bathe us in its loving warmth. Because we have some serious VFX elements in this scene and shadows are much easier to match than light. For VFX, hell isn’t other people – it’s the sunlight on their faces.
Even though Dave Hill is coy about which Quarry they’re exactly in for this shot, the assumption is that this is a shot from filming in Magheramorne Quarry, which has doubled for Castle Black and The Wall. Even though the temperatures have fallen during this filming sequence, don’t be fooled–much of the “snow” we see was sprayed on.
What are they doing there? Our best ideas, after the jump….
As for exactly what kind of VFX heavy stuff they’re doing, we already know from a few glimpses into Season 5, including the trailer for A Day In The Life that there’s a lot of action, including the Wildling Army, which requires giants and mammoths among other digital wonders. Mammoths might not be as sexy as, say, dragons, but they still require just as many digital effects.
At least for this one we can speculate where and what is going on. I still am puzzling over Day 64 and 65. Other than this is from Season 5, episode 3, there’s not much to go on. Whose feet are theose?
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