Steadicam is also one of our often used tools. We have over the seasons used many tracking vehicles such as The Vampyre Batt mounted with a Bickers Russian Arm and the Shadow Tracker. We have one Chapman/Leonard Hybrid Dolly and two Mark IV Super PeeWees, and a wealth of grip bits spread over another two trucks.
In addition to this, I have a 15-foot GF-Multi Jib Arm paired with a Scorpio EZ Head. This is all mounted on Alfagrip’s fantastic Mark III Scarab, an all-terrain motorized crane base/tractor that was very much designed to service Game of Thrones. Savage: On a daily basis, I have access to a Moviebird 44-foot telescopic crane paired with a GEO stabilized remote head. Northern Ireland can supply beaches, mountains, quarries, forests, and caves all within an hour’s drive of our studios. The vast majority of work, both exterior and interior, is done from our production base, the Titantic Studios located at the Harland and Wolf Shipyards where the Titantic was built. Savage: Game of Thrones has shot in Northern Ireland, Malta, Morocco, Spain, Croatia, Canada, and Iceland. On other days, we’ll shoot only 1/4 of a page in a huge battle.ĬO: Can you talk a bit about the locations? On certain days, if it’s a controlled environment, we’ll average about 6-7 pages a day. The budget for the show has gone from approximately 40 million dollars for Season 1 to a reported 165 million dollars for Season 6, with the “Battle of the Bastards” sequence alone costing about a million dollars a day during its 23-day shoot. We have two units, Dragon and Wolf, so we likely get through over 220 shooting days to produce the typically 10-episode season. Savage: The season is typically around 25 to 26 weeks long, about 110 days per unit. Photo by Helen Sloan/HBOĬO: What is the shooting schedule and budget like? There’s also the crane and head techs, Duncan More, John Crawford, and Ben and Laurence Edwards.Įmilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen. My grip team is led by my very good friend and right-hand man, key grip, Pat Garrett, best boy, Kirk Thornton, B camera dolly grip, Guy Bennett, and A camera dolly grip, Andy Woodcock. He is ably assisted by 1st AC, Marc Atherfold and 2nd AC, Sam Donaghy-Bell. My B camera operator is David Morgan, a man of great experience who has spent more than 40 years in the camera department. My 2nd ACs have been Jon Evans, David Churchyard, and Rich Davis. My 1st ACs have been Sebastian Barraclough and Tom Taylor. Savage: I have an amazing team, many of whom have been with me since Season 1 and 2, and indeed will be there on the final season later this year. He then returned as a director on Season 2 and I was asked if I would become the A camera operator on the Dragon Unit. When there, I met Alik Sakharov, ASC and we formed a good working relationship. Sean Savage: I was booked to be the A camera on 2nd unit halfway through Season 1. With the new season premiering to massive views and critical acclaim, Camera Operator reached out to Dragon Unit A camera operator, Sean Savage, SOC, ACO, Associate BSC to learn more.Ĭamera Operator: How did you get the job of an A camera operator on Game of Thrones? Known for its immense scale, cinematic style, and intricate storytelling with memorable characters interlinked across multiple storylines, Game of Thrones, now in its seventh season, helped announce and define what many call the “Golden Age of Television.” To achieve the show’s epic scale in a reasonable time frame, the production makes use of two crews shooting simultaneously across Europe: the “Dragon Unit” in cold and snowy locations, and the “Wolf Unit” in sunnier, warm locations. But winter is coming, and while the battle for power wages on, an ancient and supernatural enemy gathers force in the frozen wasteland to the North. It’s the epic story of powerful families-kings and queens, warriors and spies, heroes and traitors-playing a fatal game in the quest to sit atop the Iron Throne and control the mythical continent of Westeros. Martin’s best-selling book series, A Song of Ice and Fire, is vividly brought to life in HBO’s highly-successful medieval fantasy series, Game of Thrones.
With Sean Savage, SOC, ACO, Associate BSC an interview by Derek Stettler Above Photo: Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister.
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