Sport of Thrones Tour – Cut up, Croatia – Pilot and Me

Braavos – Sport of Thrones

We determined to make a journey to Croatia, and began by flying into Cut up. The principle trade in Cut up is tourism, and it has been boosted as a result of it was one of many places the place they filmed quite a few Sport of Thrones episodes.

Notably, the complete metropolis of Braavos was really a small fortress (which is de facto extra like an house complicated) positioned simply half-hour north of Cut up within the city of Sibenik. As you’ll be able to see within the above image, Oana is standing in the identical place a younger girls is strolling down some stairs whereas Arya is within the foreground (not in focus).

As you’ll be able to see, the door within the background is similar one as the opposite Braavos image above. Apparently as a result of it took a number of days to get every location arrange, they needed to movie as a lot as doable at every location. It was quite common to shoot many scenes on the similar location, however from completely different angles, to maximise the usage of every area. As we toured this Sport of Thrones filming location, our information, Tonci, walked up by way of a number of episodes and the place all of the completely different scenes have been filmed.

Meereen – Sport of Thrones

Meereen is generally filmed at a spoil exterior of Cut up referred to as Klis Fortress. This Fortress had been used for over a millennium, and even till WWII. It was in a strategic location simply above the city of Cut up, and will defend the city from invaders from inland Japanese Europe. One fascinating factor we came upon was that each one the extras have been simply Croatians who have been paid (not that a lot) to put on costumes and seem within the scenes. Additionally, though there seems to be a number of hundred individuals on this scene, they solely used a number of dozen. What they might do is shoot them in a single location, then transfer them to a different location, and movie them there, and preserve transferring them round. Then they might edit them into the movie within the completely different places, in order that they didn’t should pay so many individuals. It was cheaper to do it that method than to CGI them in later.

One other fascinating factor they did was movie from angels to keep away from fashionable buildings. Within the image on the left, Daenerys is strolling right into a tunnel, however as you’ll be able to see on the best, there’s a fashionable trying constructing (that was added within the final century). To keep away from the constructing, they filmed in order that the constructing wasn’t within the shot. It seems to be like they acquired far-off and zoomed in, as a result of the identical tree behind Daenerys, is similar tree behind Oana. It seems to be like they shot this from the bottom as properly.

We even discovered a location that Nathalie Emmanuel had an image of her shot (not through the present clearly) and re-created the image. You may see that since this image was taken initially, they’ve added a hand rail on the steps. You can even see that there are garments drying on clotheslines in each photos. Clearly the image on the left has a filter on it, and the one among Oana was simply taken with an iPhone and no filter.

We actually preferred the tour firm we picked, Gecko Excursions, and the value was nice contemplating the information spent nearly the complete day, from 1000 to 1800 with us. We have been advised that they normally solely have 4-6 individuals on a tour, as a result of we’re used to bigger teams for excursions, but it surely was simply Oana, myself, and the tour information, Tonci, (Pronounced “Tonji”) however he mentioned to name him “Tony”. Seems he’s from Croatia, however has just about no accent since he studied within the US.