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6. Behind The Battle For The Wall

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If you watched the mind-blowing, penultimate battle between the Nights Watch and Mance Raider's 100,000 wildlings and wondered how in seven hells they pulled it off with a television budget, drop everything and watch this. 

How do you get convincing footage of men marching alongside mammoths ridden by giants? How do you believably fake miles of ice wall and legions of screaming warriors? How do you choreograph and synchronize the largest beats of a multi-staged siege with more intimate and focused character highlights?

The answer to all of these questions is a fascinating blend of practical and digital effects married with masterful cinematic storytelling, with massive sets and clever manipulations of size and perspective. Oh yeah... you'll also see how they impaled that poor Crow straight up and off the wall with a giant's arrow. Nasty.

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