#111 Game of Thrones, Sea. 7, Deborah Riley, Production Design

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Paul Vogelzang

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🗓️ 28 May 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Game of Thrones, Season 7, Deborah Riley, Production Design

Art of Living series, Smithsonian Associates

For devoted followers of HBO’s Game of Thrones, the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros is a land they know intimately. Its castle halls, towering battlements, starkly beautiful landscapes, and torch-lit chambers are places that root the epic narrative in a highly detailed world that bridges the real and the imagined.

Production designer Deborah Riley is our guest today on The Not Old Better, Smithsonian Associates, Art of Living series.

Riley, who joined the series in Season 4, is responsible for creating the visual environment against which the saga of power, family, revenge and romance plays out. Just as the show’s characters and plots reflect a range of world mythologies and legendary archetypes, so too does the look of Game of Thrones, for which Riley draws on a mix of historical periods, styles, and cultural traditions. Even the shooting locations—which extend from Northern Ireland to Croatia to Iceland—add to that global mix. Riley talks about how she and a small army of craftsmen give Game of Thrones its distinctive visual style in a conversation with Lisa Woolfork, an associate professor of English at the University of Virginia, who recently taught a class that analyzed Game of Thrones.

At a reception afterward, check out a replica Iron Throne (courtesy of HBO), and raise a toast with Game of Thrones beers from Ommegang Brewery, including the newest in the line, Bend the Knee.

Enjoy.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Not or Better Show, I'm your host Paul Vogel-Zang.
0:09.0	As part of our Smithsonian Associates Partnership program, our guest today, Deborah Riley, is head of production design
0:15.6	on the phenomenal HBO show, Game of Thrones.
0:19.9	No doubt you've seen that flashy opening sequence of Game of Thrones season after
0:24.7	season and we all know that the music here generously supplied by musicians the
0:30.2	Chapel Hill duo. I've enjoyed a lovely run on Game of Thrones and the things that I've learned, the sets
0:38.6	that we've established, the worlds that we've created, all that sort of thing is the kind of stuff that I'll be talking
0:46.1	about when I'm at the Smithsonian.
0:47.6	That of course is our guest today, Deborah Riley. Personally I love George R. Martin's books that Fire and Ice series and the HBO program
0:56.7	too.
0:57.7	For those devoted followers of HBO's Game of Thrones, The Seven Kingdoms of Westros is land we know intimately.
1:06.5	Its castle halls, towering battlements, starkly beautiful landscapes, and torchlit chambers
1:11.9	are places that root the epic narrative in a highly detailed
1:15.8	world that bridges the real and the imagine.
1:19.2	Deborah Riley is responsible for creating that visual environment against which the saga of
1:24.5	power family revenge and romance plays out. Join me in welcoming today to the
1:29.8	not-old-better show Smithsonian Associates Art of a Living Series, Deborah Riley.
1:37.0	Deborah Riley, it is a pleasure to talk to you.
1:39.6	Welcome to the show.
1:41.6	Thank you so much for having me. It's a real pleasure from the show. Thank you so much for having me.
1:43.5	It's a real pleasure from this end as well.
1:45.6	Well, and we're talking to you in Australia.
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