DOMINIC TUOHY - Special Effects Supervisor

Team Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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SEASON 2 - EPISODE 115 - Dominic Tuohy - Special Effects Supervisor

Special effects supervisor Dominic Tuohy (THE BATMAN, 1917, EDGE OF TOMORROW) joins us in this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast to discuss the craft of special effects. With a father active in the film industry, Dom was taken in by the special effects team at Pinewood Studios at an early age, and he's been working in the department for the past 40 years. Throughout the episode, we discuss the invaluable verisimilitude of special effects, and Dom muses over the magic inherent to filmmaking’s smoke and mirrors. He later unmasks the secrets behind pulling off the Batmobile chase in THE BATMAN, and we learn how stunt coordinator Rob Alonzo creatively spent his time during the pandemic induced pause in production to pre-visualize the sequence. Dom also reveals the painstaking (and sometimes painful) work that he and his team endure to push the envelope and make an effect even better. Towards the end of the conversation, Dom reveals how he advises any young person interested in making a life out of making movies, and we reflect on the high price (and deep pleasure) of working in the industry.

This episode is sponsored by Aputure

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to Season 2 of the Team Deacons podcast,
0:07.0	a collection of informal conversations between Roger and James Deacons and a guest.
0:13.0	We never know where the conversation will take us, so listen in and see where it goes.
0:19.0	This episode is sponsored by Aperture. listen in and see where it goes.
0:28.8	This episode is sponsored by Aperture, a premier manufacturer of LED lighting with the industry's greatest variety of fixtures for your complete lighting needs.
0:33.8	Aperture recently announced the new storm family of lights.
0:38.0	With LED white light quality that matches natural daylight and classic tungsten bulbs,
0:43.7	plus extreme low-end dimming while maintaining color quality.
0:48.4	Discover more about the new storm lights and the complete Aperture lighting ecosystem at Aperture.com.
0:59.0	Today, we're speaking with a special effects supervisor. His credits are many and includes
1:04.5	solo a Star Wars story, 1917, The Batman, and Deadpool and Wolverine. We're pleased to welcome Dominic Tuey. Dom,
1:14.1	thank you for doing this. Yeah, welcome. Firstly, thank you for asking. I know it's a bit of a
1:20.7	dodgy connection, but hopefully you can hear me clear. No, thank you. It's great to see you guys.
1:26.4	We'd like to start with our usual question, which is,
1:30.5	how did you get to where you are today? Was there something in your childhood that made you want to
1:36.1	make weird things happen? Blows things up. Yeah, right. What drew you to this path?
1:42.7	Dad worked in the industry.
1:50.2	He was a chauffeur and he took me on the set at those early ages and I think that was where I fell in love with the industry.
1:51.6	He then moved on to become a first assistant and then producing.
1:56.0	So he's had a great passion for making films And I think that's, I was very fortunate.
2:02.6	I wanted to be a sports teacher when I was at school,
2:05.6	but that didn't progress because my dad,
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