Interview With "House Of The Dragon" Cinematographer Catherine Goldschmidt For Season 2

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🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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"House Of The Dragon" is one of television's most widely discussed and debated shows. Whether it's the storytelling, adaptation choices from George R.R. Martin's source material, or visual style, the HBO series always provides viewers with a lot to chew on, and Season 2 was no exception. Emmy-nominated cinematographer Catherine Goldschmidt, who we previously interviewed for Season 1, returned to the podcast to discuss her work on Episodes 3 ("The Burning Mill") and Episode 8 ("The Queen Who Ever Was"). Please take a listen as she dishes out behind-the-scenes stories, choices in shooting style, the reaction to her work, and more in our interview. Also, be sure to check out the show, which is now streaming on Max. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Brendan Hodges's interview
0:04.9	with the cinematographer for Season 2 of House of the Dragon, Catherine Goldschmidt.
0:10.2	Errors were made in the hours following King Vassaris's death.
0:16.6	The wall be fought.
0:21.6	Many will die.
0:27.6	And the victor will eventually assign the throne.
0:34.6	There is no war so hateful to the gods.
0:42.9	There's a war between kin.
0:50.9	And no war so bloody as a war between dragons.
1:00.0	All right, well, Catherine, thank you so much for speaking with us today. I'd like to start with what might be the obvious question,
1:05.0	which is what is it like to work on House of the Dragon, one of the biggest shows in the world. And what does that change for you
1:13.2	and what you do on set? Yeah, well, it is a really big show. So we have this enormous cast and
1:18.9	crew. And yeah, I think honestly, it's just about communication and how you are, you know, making sure you know what Ryan wants the showrunner,
1:31.5	what Gita wants the director, and then communicating that to everybody who works, you know,
1:37.3	under you. And, yeah, I mean, to this day, it amazes me how such a massive machine functions, but it does.
1:47.1	So, yeah, I mean, it's exciting.
1:48.6	It's exciting to work on such a big show.
1:51.1	Honestly, like, I say this to, you know, students who ask me this all the time.
1:55.3	Like, it's, it really is the same principle as shooting a student film.
2:00.2	You just have to multiply what you're doing
2:02.6	by, you know, 10 or 20 or 100. Sure. That makes sense. And, you know, I ask particularly because
2:13.6	House of the Dragon compared to some other recent shows,
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