Citzen Kane-cinematography
Citizen Kane-Cinematography
Citizen Kane is about a man who is given the chance to be successful and he is but he dies with his last words being rosebud but what does this mean, people are trying to find out. In the end we find out it’s the sledge, which symbolises his childhood that he lost.
Orson Welles created a new style of filmmaking by as he said himself in interview “ignorance.... sheer ignorance”
One innovative aspect Citizen Kane introduced was deep focus because in lots of scenes many things are in sharp focus whether it is in the foreground, background or in between. Many scenes that prove this but one especially the scene near the start that everything is in focus whether it be ‘Charles Kane’ through the window or the hat in the very foreground.
Toland and Welles experimented using lenses and lighting differently with pan-focus it kept a lot of realism as it wasn’t cutting from other angles. When the deep focus seemed impossible in the scene when Kane finishes the bad review of Alexander’s opera whilst he fires the person who started the review, the printer used keeps the whole screen in focus.
They cleverly use low angle shots to show power, strength and dominance of Charles Kane who slowly becomes a little psycho.
Charles Kane story was told by cutting to flashback and different viewpoints, which as it goes to the present time all of his associates, seem to give an unreliable story of his life and relationships with him. A very radical technique to have done as a Hollywood movie for a cinematographer is that the breakdown of Kane’s first marriage broke down and used the cutting technique to show different periods of his first marriage, it showed his marriage breakdown into two minutes with different time periods of his first marriage.
Bernard Herrmann scored Citizen Kane and he scored during the breakfast montage where he began with a graceful waltz that got darker throughout the montage as Kane’s personality became obscure and the breakup
Citizen Kane is about a man who is given the chance to be successful and he is but he dies with his last words being rosebud but what does this mean, people are trying to find out. In the end we find out it’s the sledge, which symbolises his childhood that he lost.
Orson Welles created a new style of filmmaking by as he said himself in interview “ignorance.... sheer ignorance”
One innovative aspect Citizen Kane introduced was deep focus because in lots of scenes many things are in sharp focus whether it is in the foreground, background or in between. Many scenes that prove this but one especially the scene near the start that everything is in focus whether it be ‘Charles Kane’ through the window or the hat in the very foreground.
Toland and Welles experimented using lenses and lighting differently with pan-focus it kept a lot of realism as it wasn’t cutting from other angles. When the deep focus seemed impossible in the scene when Kane finishes the bad review of Alexander’s opera whilst he fires the person who started the review, the printer used keeps the whole screen in focus.
They cleverly use low angle shots to show power, strength and dominance of Charles Kane who slowly becomes a little psycho.
Charles Kane story was told by cutting to flashback and different viewpoints, which as it goes to the present time all of his associates, seem to give an unreliable story of his life and relationships with him. A very radical technique to have done as a Hollywood movie for a cinematographer is that the breakdown of Kane’s first marriage broke down and used the cutting technique to show different periods of his first marriage, it showed his marriage breakdown into two minutes with different time periods of his first marriage.
Bernard Herrmann scored Citizen Kane and he scored during the breakfast montage where he began with a graceful waltz that got darker throughout the montage as Kane’s personality became obscure and the breakup