The Project
Client: Carnival Films / Netflix
Location: North Wales
Date: 2021
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The Last Kingdom
Netflix: The Last Kingdom has had an affiliation with North Wales ever since Season 1: Episode 1 and now for Season 5, the team are back again, filming at Traeth Porthor near Nefyn, in North Wales.
The Last Kingdom is a British historical fiction television series based on Bernard Cornwell’s The Saxon Stories series of novels.
The year is 866, and the Great Heathen Army’s arrival in Britain is about to redefine the relationship between Vikings and Anglo-Saxons. Following establishment of Danish rule in Jórvík and East Anglia, the show largely focuses on the resistance of the Kingdom of Wessex to ongoing Viking incursions to Southern England. The story covers about 40–45 years by the end of season 4.
The fictional protagonist is Uhtred of Bebbanburg. An earl of that name lived and ruled Bebbanburg (Bamburgh Castle) and Northumbria during the reign of Æthelred II, though about a century after the setting of The Last Kingdom.
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Aerialworx was commissioned to undertake the filming of the VFX plate shots and for this we used our DJI Inspire 2 with the X7 camera and full set of lenses. The filming was carried out at various remote and difficult to reach locations around North Wales.
