... . Another example can be drawn from the production of Ran, in which Kurosawa strictly supervised the art director Yishiro Muraki. During the construction of "third castle ", Kurosawa ordered the castle's stone blocks to be painted as Styrofoam blocks based off the photographs he took of actual stones; Kurosawa then ordered the stones to be glued to the castle wall, also known ... as the "rough-stone piling " process. This enabled great amounts of details when shooting the castle, ultimately creating the famous scene in which the castle is under attack and set on fire. To prevent ... ...

• Word Count: 1037
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate