SAM CONWAY: It's a...
ever-evolving creative journey.
My dad was my inspiration.
My father did a lot
of, uh, Monty Python films,
 and Terry Gilliam stuff
 as well,
and I used to come
in every holiday,
muck around the workshop.
The special effects has changed.
 In my father's days, it was
 more physical,
 and less the effects.
 Nowadays, we are a medium
 which VFX
like to use to... to supply them
 with decent elements.
 But it's also slightly
 destructive.
The special effects as a
department brings
to a production, uh,
chaos and mayhem.
 If you get given a task,
 and they tell you
 the end-image that they
 wanna see, well it's our job
 to... to work out
 how we get there.
If you wanna put an environment
where you got access in a room
and the room is supposed
to explode, we achieve
 that in camera, safely
 and effectively.
You know how it's gonna look
in your head,
but you also love the fact
that it goes crazily,
 you know, this way
 and that way.
 It's a technically-challenging
 thing to do,
 and to make it look good
 at the same time.
 We handle gas, we handle
 water, we handle wind,
 we handle smoke, we handle
 pyrotechnics,
we handle engineering,
blood, snot... (CHUCKLES)
You know, everything.
Everything that you can
possibly imagine is our trade.
It's massive. (LAUGHS)
 I always consider
special effects as an art form.
It certainly is something
that I can not do without, yeah.
 For many reasons.
(LAUGHS)
 I love it.
I absolutely love it.
