Citizen Kane is an American drama film made in 1941 that was written, produced, and starred by Orson Welles. He was one of the first people to challenge normal elements/ethics in the Hollywood industry. Orson Welles elements included storytelling techniques, and special effects that made his movie different from others. In fact he was the first person to ever show people a movie (Citizen Kane) that showed the ending at the beginning of the movie. The whole movie is a flashback and is telling a story on how the ending happened. Citizen Kane uses non-linear and composite storytelling from different points of view, with interviews, deep focus, and flashbacks. Traditional Hollywood uses mise-en-scene with actors and objects mostly in the center of the frame never a
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Not realizing his life is about to change he is happy playing in the snow and it shows innocents. A decision was made without the boy knowing and he is basically chilling in the snow happy as can be. Capturing certain angles and different views of a movie makes the point of a movie more noticeable. In different angles and views the audience can notice certain things that they would not notice in a basic regular angle. In nearly every scene everything is all in Deep focus. According to grade saver, “Deep Focus is a strategy of lighting, composition, and lens choice that allows everything in the frame to be in focus at the same time”. Deep focus was used in “Citizen Kane” in scenes that depict Kane’s loss of control and his personal isolation and it gave the audience a clear view of the area Kane had power as well as the area he had no power. The lighting was usually three point and split the scene into foreground and background. For example in certain scary movies like insidious they had different camera angles to make the movie scarier and for paranormal activity they use POV angles. POV cameras are usually small and typically attach to a hat helmet or goggles like a go-pro. In
Not realizing his life is about to change he is happy playing in the snow and it shows innocents. A decision was made without the boy knowing and he is basically chilling in the snow happy as can be. Capturing certain angles and different views of a movie makes the point of a movie more noticeable. In different angles and views the audience can notice certain things that they would not notice in a basic regular angle. In nearly every scene everything is all in Deep focus. According to grade saver, “Deep Focus is a strategy of lighting, composition, and lens choice that allows everything in the frame to be in focus at the same time”. Deep focus was used in “Citizen Kane” in scenes that depict Kane’s loss of control and his personal isolation and it gave the audience a clear view of the area Kane had power as well as the area he had no power. The lighting was usually three point and split the scene into foreground and background. For example in certain scary movies like insidious they had different camera angles to make the movie scarier and for paranormal activity they use POV angles. POV cameras are usually small and typically attach to a hat helmet or goggles like a go-pro. In