Banners. Writing on fabrics.

You can still see many banners in Japan. We have done millions of banners and flags which Drapes people had to make all day long.

This was gold metallic ink on blue silk.
All prayers.
We ripped into long thin strips to hang from trees, but never saw them actually used on set. Maybe still in a box somewhere in a warehouse.






These were see through metallicky clothes has shiny surface. If I try to write as I normally do on a desk, ink went down straight to the other end, nothing left on clothes. I found some video that Japanese craft men making painted silk decorations, they were working in the air...




so I found space in workshop, stretched clothes well and wrote in the air. Awesome! I saw them at Kira's castle / fortress next to bamboo and Shinto lightnings - we made them, too from silks. I have to thank these people put how to make them on-line. Very helpful.







Those were silk, too for the scene of blazing inferno at Kira's tomb. We went for simple black writing on white silk because they meant to be a graveyard.

Then Boss said ‘Why are they white? Shouldn't they be Kira's colour?’ on the shooting day.







I had to run to Drapes people who dyed them in purple in a massive bucket. And then to Painter to paint black bits on top and bottom. And I wrote them in silver metallic paint.






They are set of 12, 6 each on both sides. But we'll actually burn them with fire, needed two spare sets more in case. I've never used hairdryers like then, before and probably afterwards. But we made it on time.

Grave stone at the end of the path, which made from plaster.
I will write about all the grave stones later.
And tanzakus, the paper strips with poems. And the blood oath...