‘Game of Thrones’ season 3: A look at the effects

We’ve already given you a pair of “Game of Thrones” season 3 casting news this week; so now, why not present a look at just what is being done behind the scenes? In between the multiple locations, the dozens of characters, and the sequence in which the episodes are shot, there are really few other shows on television that really provide for a challenge that is this extensive.

With this in mind, Cat Taylor of the Making of Game of Thrones blog (who also doubles as the assistant to showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss) recently sat down with Special Effects Floor Supervisor Jonathon Barrass, and he shared what makes part of his job behind the scenes with this show so exciting but also an immense challenge at the same time:

“I would say the biggest challenge on a show like this would be filming different episodes with different directors out of order and all at the same time. Everything can change on a daily basis. We plan of course, but really it’s working out day to day how we are going to make things work and match to any filming we may have done already. It may be raining one day and sunny the next and you just never know.

“We have the best back up team, our guys in the workshop are some if the best engineers you can imagine. They send us things to play with, and we break them and send them back, but the atmospherics, the rain the smoke and the fire. We always have that on board the trucks and ready to go, depending on what the directors need.”

This season, Barrass has spent the majority of his time working with the show in Northern Ireland, but Taylor claims that he is also going to be in Iceland, where some of the final “Game of Thrones” season 3 scenes are being shot this month in the northern part of the country.