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Duncan Muggoch: Although this is TV,
it's TV in a scale that is beyond anything else.
Peter Welter Soler: It's the most successful TV show in the world right now.
It is special. Very, very special.
Chris Newman: Today we're shooting in Croatia,
they're shooting in Belfast,
and they're preparing for shooting in Seville down in Spain.
Whatever hand you're dealt, you have to go with it
because the show can't stop.
Bernie Caulfield: I think we're the only ones in the world
that shoot with two units
at the same time all season long.
If one of those spokes in the wheel are missing,
it's gonna collapse.
Director: And, action!
( crowd cheering )
Morning.
How are you all?
My name is Duncan Muggoch and I'm the UK line producer
for Croatia and Spain, or what we also call
the southern locations for "Game of Thrones" season five.
This is my second season. I did Croatia last year.
And this year
we've obviously got Spain thrown into it as well.
So I'm line producing
both of them this year.
And even though last year was big, this one's even bigger.
My name is Chris Newman. I'm one of the producers on "Game of Thrones."
I fulfill a function
here of planning how the two units work
and drift in between the sets, the locations, and the different countries.
So how was yesterday? All right?
- Yes. Yeah, it was good. It was really good, yeah. - Yes? Good.
Newman: We start shooting at the end of July.
99% of the crew have been here before.
So when you start day one,
it feels like day 301
in a good way.
As this is going on here, over in Spain
we have Peter who runs Fresco Films.
He's new to this year, so he doesn't know quite how manic it can get.
My name is
Peter Welter Soler.
I'm the Spanish line producer
on this show.
The production booklets, are we getting them tonight?
Welter Soler: We have two weeks left before everybody arrives.
And then two days later, we start shooting.
I'd be lying if I said the stress level is not increasing,
because obviously this is very important for all of us.
Doing it for the first time, we want to please everybody.
We want to do a great job.
This is actually maybe not the calm before the storm.
It is the rehearsal before the show. ( chuckles )
We're heading from our unit base into Dubrovnik, into the old town.
Filming here is quite different from filming in Belfast
'cause the logistics over here are very different.
One of the logistical problems of Dubrovnik
is it's such a tight, small, old city
that we can't get our big vehicles actually into the town
just 'cause the streets are so narrow.
It's just one of the challenges that we face
filming in a city like this.
You can't take vehicles
within the old walls,
so everything has to get taken by Sherpas
up to a location today which is probably
one of the furthest and trickiest you could get to in the whole city.
A little rule that I have for myself on location,
and this is never go up empty-handed or come down empty-handed.
Now it's just a load of stairs all the way up to the top.
Hello, gorgeous.
Good. Good, good.
Muggoch:
The principal actors are just arriving on set
to rehearse.
They will do a rehearsal with the director first,
and then they'll do a full crew rehearsal,
which is when they'll place where the cameras are gonna go and everything like that.
Man: Okay, guys, give us the set, please.
Hey, Joseph. How are you? Nice to see you.
Newman: Episode one and two have been in Croatia.
They've done most of their filming and they're back here finishing up
now that Emilia has finished in Croatia.
( growling )
- Do that. Just growl at one point. - ( growls )
So this morning, episode one and two with Mike Slovis directing
are setting up to do their first scene this season in Dany's penthouse.
Morning, everybody. Hello.
Newman: So it's right at the beginning of the-- season five
and it's the first time Dany gets an inkling
of what's going on in Meereen under her new rule.
And then do you want it to be a boom,
I've decided I will not have them?
Or do you want it to be kind of like--
- No, I think it's more gentle. - It's gentle?
It is gentle? Okay, lovely. Yeah.
I have shot mostly in Belfast.
I have shot several days
in Croatia
and I am going to shoot
in Seville.
Teach them a better way.
It sounds like something Jorah would have said.
Slovis: Moving to a foreign country on this show
is not as disruptive as you might think
because one of the two crews
that you've already worked with here goes there.
So the first thing that happens when you walk on the set
is that you see familiar faces.
Kay Bilk: My priority today is looking after Emilia
because she's come
from Croatia,
so we're matching continuity
to that country.
They send their photos to us
so that we can do the same as they've been doing.
Rosalia Culora: There's two departments filming at the same time,
so it's imperative
that things like wigs,
continuity photos
all travel together
and that every member of the team is aware of what the look is,
because if we do have to take over someone's artist,
we know exactly what we're doing and there's no mess-ups
when we're watching the show, hopefully.
Slovis: Let's do one for camera, please.
Okay.
Man: Let's have it quiet for rehearsal, please.
And that means everybody in here, thank you.
Action.
So the only thing that gave him pride
was knowing there was someone lower than he was.
- Morning. - Morning.
- How are you? - Good.
- Morning, Duncan. Morning, Mr. Muggoch. - Morning.
Oh, I want
to talk to Peter today or maybe you can.
Peter Welter?
Yeah, no, I'm talking with him.
About CĂ³rdoba bridge and the drone.
Muggoch: As far as I'm concerned, Bernie is "Game of Thrones."
I've never met a producer that cares for a crew as much as she does.
She's an incredible woman to work for, actually,
and everybody loves her.
And she keeps everything together.
And do they want to clear a place in that?
So the bridge has to be closed.
That's-- I'm checking on.
Along with David and Dan, she's the executive producer.
David and Dan are obviously-- you know, they're the creators of it.
It's their baby.
Bernie is the one that keeps this show running.
Sometimes David and Dan will be with us.
Sometimes they are separate so that they can both be on the set,
depending what the scene might be,
will watch rehearsal, give their notes on the scene,
and then a lot
of times we're discussing what is in advance.
As you can imagine,
with 10 episodes,
that we're
constantly prepping.
Much like our
characters, we will go from the amazing Daznak
right into the amazing Hardhome.
Caulfield: I usually have a nice list for them every day.
They almost cringe when they see me starting to come towards them
and open my book to start asking my questions.
But they're fantastically collaborative with all of us.
Today, they're having a big Hardhome meeting up in Belfast.
- They got the notes? - Yes. Yeah.
Caulfield: When we're shooting in different countries,
it's about a constant communication
between the