'Again, that took many, many tests, bringing our cameras and testing different colours, seeing which worked and which really gave us that sense of being inside of the firestorm without making the image so garish that you wouldn't want to watch it.

Being inside was the only way we could contain the atmosphere, get the levels we want and then also I surrounded the set with LED lights that I programmed to a very specific colour. 'So we ended up building the ruined village inside and surrounding the entire set with muslin, huge muslin cloth wrapping around the stage, and an ash dressing. 'That was our kicking off point, everyone involved agreed, the showrunners and the director, they all liked the idea and so we ran with that and then the challenge became, 'okay, how do we create that and sustain that over a several scenes?' I had photos of the atmosphere that we were in, and it's a very eerie and otherworldly, red, orange, yellow kind of mixture in the air.

'And so I ended up turning to photographs of different events, specifically the California wildfires in 2018 and then in Portland I was actually very close to a wildfire in 2020. 'It started with a pre-visual of 'what does it look like inside of the maelstrom of a volcanic eruption,'' Disenhof said. This was all done for real.ĭisenhof called the opening scenes of Episode 7 'very challenging,' but remarked that he and the creative team were 'really proud' of how it turned out 'because it took a lot of planning a lot of thought about how to achieve these things.' Ben Rothstein/Prime VideoĮpisode 6 saw Mount Doom erupt following a battle between good and evil in the Southlands, with Episode 7 following heroes like Galadriel ( Morfydd Clark) as they return to their encampment, but for long stretches of time they are stuck under the billowing cloud of the volcano, bathed in a red glow and covered in ash. The scenes were done for real rather than using CGI, cinematographer Alex Disenhof said in an interview with Newsweek. Morfydd Clark as Galadriel in 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' Episode 7, inside Mordor after the eruption of Mount Doom.

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