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Lord of the Thrones

How often do you get to shoot a completely epic campaign set in a fantasy land with drama and intrigue? We were super stoked to be involved with production of ImproMafia’s promotional images for their upcoming show Lord of the Thrones. If you’ve been hiding under a rock, you might not know of Game of Thrones, or Lord of the Rings. This show mashes both of them together, all controlled by a storyteller named R. R. (Named after J. R. R. Tolkien and George R. R. Martin. Get it?)

If you’ve watched Game of Thrones, you know that getting to know and love a character is their death knell – it doesn’t take long for something senseless and violent to remove your favourite and keep you guessing about what might be happening next. We thought it would be great to shoot a series of images, featuring characters from the show, and featuring Death – just hanging about, biding time until he is inevitably called to action.

Working with actors is a joy – they know where their arms and legs and face and eyes are, and they know how to project emotion and feeling with everything from a stance to a subtle facial change. Natalie, Alex, Brittany, Greg and Scott (with Scott doing double duty as Death) threw themselves in to it, and it totally works!

One of the fun parts of the shoot was building these super-serious, contextually consistent scenes with a dramatic persona in the foreground and a cool location for the background… with Death being just a little ridiculous somewhere in the shot. I can’t quite explain why, but Wanda’s idea for death’s dropped ice cream (above) makes me very happy indeed.
You want to see some magnificent prop work? Wanda Macgyvered some ancient parchment out of some printer paper, coffee, and a sandwich press. Best smelling magic scroll ever!

We had a lot of fun incorporating photographs from our travels. European palaces and North American forests featured pretty heavily in the series. Now, obviously, the budget didn’t quite stretch far enough to fly people overseas… Instead, we shot in our lounge room (much more exotic) and did some composite work to integrate characters in to their locations. So for this one project, we brought together elements we’d shot in Denmark, Colorado, Paris, Oregon, Stockholm, and Brisbane. Here’s a little behind-the-scenes if you’re curious.

Lord of the Thrones premiere performance is on Saturday 12 September at the Metro Arts Theatre, Brisbane. Tickets are available from impromafia.com.

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Kris Anderson IFSWPP M.PhotogI M.WPPI MNZIPP(Dist.) is a Certified Professional Photographer with the Professional Photographers Association of Queensland, an NZIPP Australian Accredited Professional Photographer, and proud EIZO Ambassador. He has been recognised as a Fellow of the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers , an NZIPP Master with Distinction, and Icon International Photography Awards Double Master .

 

Kris’ work has received gold awards at international, national and state levels for professional print judging. He was recently recognised as the 2023 NZIPP Australian Portrait Photographer of the Year and the 2023 SWPP Portrait Photographer of the Year. Prior to that, Kris was awarded 2019 AIPP Queensland Professional Photographer of the Year. He has also won state and national titles for AIPP Professional Illustrative Photographer of the Year.

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