STEAMPUNK COMES ALIVE

Production Designer

BY MICHAEL AHR

1. Big decisions are made in the parliamentary chamber in The Burgue, but the room itself is quite small. “Our DP and our directors would hope that we could inflate it for the ease of their work,” says Matura. “But these limits [can] force you to create a new level of tension.”

2. To make Prague look like Victorian London, Matura had “to keep a balance between the beauty of The Burgue, the richness and opulence, and the dirt and grittiness of the ghetto and of the industry.” Season two goes “even more literally into factories.”

3. The fae world of Tirnanoc was a favorite of Matura. “There were many attempts [in season one] to go more into Tirnanoc, and I was always disappointed that it did not happen that much,” he says, reassuring fans that, in season two, “we discover a completely new part of our world.”

4. The fae underground HQ needed an upgrade. “The Black Ravens have their lair that is the abandoned church, [which] became much more important in season two,” says Matura. “For returning there and doing much more work, we recreated this location as a set piece.”

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