Gerd Nefzer - Special Effects Supervisor

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James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 27 June 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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EPISODE 127 - GERD NEFZER - Special Effects Supervisor

Team Deakins speaks with special effects supervisor, Gerd Nefzer (BLADE RUNNER 2049, RED SPARROW, HUNGER GAMES). We start by talking about what the special effects department covers and how it varies per film. We talk about the challenges of creating atmosphere and how he approached that on Blade Runner 2049. Specifically, we examine the differences in using mist or smoke for the atmosphere. Of course, we discuss what is covered by SFX and VFX and how this is determined. We go into detail on the challenges that the sea wall sequence in Blade Runner 2049 offered. Gerd also shares details of the effects on the film, The Girl in the Spiderweb and he tells us how important planning is and knowing what the camera position will be for his work. A really great conversation with a special effects master!

RECOMMENDED EPISODE VIEWING: The Girl in the Spiderweb, Blade Runner 2049

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Team Deakin's podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and
0:10.8	James Deakin's often joined in the conversation by a guest. It's very informal and we never
0:17.3	know where it will go. We're connecting through Zoom so bear that in mind when you hear
0:22.4	the audio. If you'd like to submit a question or topic please do so by emailing podpod.cod at
0:31.2	rogerdeakin's.com. Today we're speaking with a special effects supervisor. We've had the pleasure
0:40.2	of working with him on Blade Runner 2049. His credits include In Glorious Bastards, The Grand
0:47.2	Budapest Hotel, Hunger Games, Girl in the Spiders web and the Upcoming Dune. We're pleased to
0:54.9	welcome Gerd Neffser with us today. Gerd, thank you for doing this. So hello. It's a pleasure for me
1:04.1	to talk to you and to be a part of your broadcast. It's really great. I'm very, very happy and I'm very,
1:11.9	very nervous. Don't be nervous. It's just a conversation. Yeah. So no problem. I think we'll start with
1:22.8	us asking you, how did you get to where you are today? Did you always follow this past? Did you
1:28.8	do another past? As a child, did you want to be a special effects supervisor? Yes, did you always
1:35.9	want to blow things up? Tell us your story. Not at all. I have to say. I've never believed that I
1:43.0	that I go to this career, you know, and go to movie business. That was never ever planned in my
1:49.7	life. So that was, yeah, a whole surprise from day one when I started to work on a movie business
1:57.5	until now, you know. So I was born in 1965. So I have 55 now, very old. In 2008.
2:10.8	In Schwabisch-Hall, which is in Germany, in the south of Germany, visit the Kindergarten and the
2:17.5	primary lower secondary school. I was I was never, ever good in school, but because I think I'm
2:24.2	maybe not intelligent enough to be a good good in school, you know. So yeah, I grew up in a small
2:33.2	village close to a medium-sized town and my mother worked in a hospital as a cleaning woman or how do
2:42.0	you say she cleaned the rooms in the hospital. My dad was mechanics. So he worked in the company who
2:50.6	were making machines to fill up, you know, liquids. But my father-in-law was always sick.
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