HOUSE OF THE DRAGON PRODUCTION
dusk knows that there’s a seriously short window,” describes Cernjul. His scene, which appears in episode 7, shows a group of dragonseeds sneaking out of King’s Landing and heading towards Dragonstone. “It was important that the scene takes place at dusk – this was a crucial story point and we simply had to make it work,” he insists. On a nearby beach, Martínez shot the dusk sequence for episode 6. “We were so close that we could see each other,” recalls Cernjul. “It was incredible to watch these two difficult scenes being filmed simultaneously at the same location. That was an amazing experience.” Cernjul describes the shooting schedule as ‘a work of art’ and ‘incredibly logistically complicated’. “To be honest, it was intimidating,” he admits, “and there was no room for error. But, somehow, we pulled it off.” House of the Dragon is now streaming on Sky TV/Now Entertainment in the UK and Max in the US
SHOT IN THE DARK Filming twin sequences on the beaches of Anglesey at dusk proved a monumental effort
that, occasionally, he would be double- booked, slated to shoot multiple scenes in the same place, at the same time. “It was impossible of course,” he says, but had to be done, so he asked fellow DOP Alejandro Martínez to help. “We had two scenes on the beaches of Anglesey that took place at dusk, and anybody who has ever shot a scene at
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