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41 Q2 2017 / CINEMONTAGE dragons (Drogon, Rhaegal and Viserion) controlled by the lead character Daenerys Targaryen, Fairfield developed her ways to relate to them. "I look upon the smaller dragons — Rhaegal and Viserion — as Beavis and Butt- Head [the two socially incompetent teenage delinquents from Mike Judge's eponymous animated TV series] because they're always bickering with one another. Perversely, I imagine that the large dragon is married to Targaryen, and that they share a strange husband-and-wife relationship. In Season Five, for example, there is a sequence where, having disappeared for most of the previous season, Drogon flies down to see Daenerys. It's a very intimate scene, so I generated sounds appropriate for a sexual, romantic relationship, including dragon purrs." All elements of the three dragons are fully designed with wing and skin sounds. "In fact, I develop everything I can to give them movement," Fairfield stresses. "I even fashion the stretching of skin as they move up and down. I also work at a sample rate of 96 kHz so that the elements can be time-stretched and contracted as necessary. I produce between 300 and 400 individual design tracks per episode, with separate Pro Tools sessions for each character. To save time for Mathew Waters, I pre-dub the tracks into multi-channel layers for wings, skins, high vocals, low vocals and movements." RE-RECORDING Blank and Waters joined the show at the start of Season Two. "I soon realized that Onnalee is very organized and, for dialogue tracks, prefers to receive both boom and lavalier mic tracks," Kimmel says. "Mathew also focuses on the quality of the sound effects tracks, and participates in their selection." "When I first heard that post for the show was moving to the West Coast, I talked with everybody who knew anybody at HBO to get the gig," Blank recalls. "I had never mixed anything as complex as Game of Thrones; I wanted that show so badly! For three years we worked at Soundelux/Todd-AO, and then moved to Stage A, on what is now Formosa at The Lot. For Season Seven, we are relocating to the brand- new Formosa Hollywood Stage 1, which features a pair of interlinked Avid S6 32-fader M40 control surfaces." Other hardware includes five Game of Thrones. HBO Brett Voss, left, Onnalee Blank and Mathew Waters.