00:01On House of the Dragon, they don't cut corners.
00:03We're going to make something quite special here.
00:06Two!
00:07It's real fire.
00:08Two!
00:09Blood effects.
00:10One!
00:10It's the real deal.
00:17Hi, I'm Mike Dawson. I'm the Special Effects supervisor.
00:27This is the Battle of the Gullet, episode one.
00:30Kevin Delanoi, executive producer.
00:33Today, we're filming The Queen who never was on the wet tank,
00:37as it fragments into two parts.
00:39You can see all of the equipment's required.
00:42We're going epic with a capital E.
00:47I was given six pages of script, and Kevin's like,
00:50we're going to build a tank brand new.
00:52The water tank is about 20 feet deep.
00:56We started, and this was just dirt.
00:58We started building the tanks.
01:00What you're seeing now is a culmination of 14 months of development and work.
01:09Here you have The Queen Who Never Was,
01:11which is two gimbals sunk underwater.
01:14All my guys have welded about over 200 tons of steel to make this.
01:19Very impressive. It's awesome. It's breathtaking.
01:22The pitchfist rolls and then also travels at the same time.
01:26You have The Queen Who Never Was on impact.
01:28The ship rolls and then comes back.
01:30They can rotate independently of each other.
01:32The hydraulics underneath the ship have to be chunky
01:35for when you need an extra push.
01:41So here, we have a computer system that actually runs this.
01:45It's just making sure all the gimbals that are out there,
01:48they're all in the right place at the right time.
01:50This is basically what will make the boat behave like a real boat.
01:54So this animation becomes live on our gimbals,
01:58and they actually match this.
02:00We have the 70 stun guys on the two halves of the ship
02:04that move independently.
02:06So when you see us on there, we really are swaying.
02:09Some people do get seasick too, which is kind of surreal and crazy.
02:13And then we've got wave machines.
02:15So we've designed this ball that we pull up and down in water.
02:19Eight of these cylinders that we can pressurize, fill with water,
02:22and on cue, we can release it,
02:25and this forces the water out and up and over the deck.
02:32We're much more cinematic this season.
02:34This draws on my experience from Titanic.
02:36Larger numbers of extras, bigger set piece sequences,
02:39bigger special effects.
02:40This is not CGI.
02:42They've really just dunked me in a water tank and drowned me all day.
02:49It should have been done quite like it to fall.
02:52And as you just heard say in the background,
02:54it's never been done quite like this before.
02:55This is a unique set, and what you're about to see
02:58is the first take on the biggest movement of this rig.
03:01So I'll step out and let you enjoy it.
03:04Action!
03:05Two!
03:06Two!
03:07One!
03:08Six!
03:10There it goes.
03:11There's the big pitch.
03:12Two.
03:17Three!
03:18Three!
03:25Two!
03:25Pretty good, huh?
03:28Four!
03:30Three!
03:32Two!
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