Game of Thrones behind the scenes: Wardrobe malfunctions beyond the Wall
By Ariba Bhuvad
Game of Thrones is a complicated show, and the number of times things have gone wrong behind the scenes could probably fill a very long, very interesting book. Speaking at the VFX Festival with Michelle Blok, the visualization supervisor on seasons 6 and 7, Express got the story behind one of those times.
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It happened during filming on “Beyond the Wall,” where Jon, the Hound, Jorah and Tormund scramble onto Drogon’s back after Dany comes to rescue them from their mission to capture a wight. Prior to this, only Daenerys had ridden a dragon, and the SFX team knew how to make her look good. Adding other people on board presented new challenges.
How, the question was, do we make these newcomers look like they’re actually flying through the air? Part of it is putting them in front of a wind machine. Another part is wardrobe. “We had capes for the actors as well, they had to get up there and put a cape on to test the wind to see if the cape would be flapping around enough to make it believable,” Blok explained. “They eventually I think had to change the fabric because there wasn’t enough flap.”
"All these little details that really sell it – I mean you’re not going to have someone up there if they can have wind in their hair if their cape is not flapping because they are going 90 miles an hour then it’s going to look kind of weird. All these little details are really taken into account."
Blok said she “loved every minute” of working on seasons 6 and 7, however tiring it was. “It was just so gratifying to actually go through it and see the final result like when you sit down and watch it on TV it was like ‘oh my god, that looks so much better than I thought it would. Most of the time when you do a show or a movie you watch and think ‘I can’t believe they cut that out that looks really bad’ but on Thrones you’re never disappointed.”
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