Gregg Toland

On May 1993, a man named Nathan Dunlap, shot five workers at Chuck E Cheese at Aurora, Colorado. Four of them, passed away and one survived a shot to the face. On July 2012, James Holmes created a massacre also at The Aurora Theater in Aurora, Colorado. There was a total seventy victims, were twelve were killed, and fifty-eight were injured. The last man to ever cause capital punishment to rise was Ariel Castro, who kidnapped three women in certain years, and kept them captive for more than a…

The death penalty has been a flawed American institution since it was established in the 1600s. It has been marred by complaints of pain, cruelty, inconsistency, discrimination, wrongful death, botched executions, executions of juveniles, mentally disable, and mentally ill, as well as the financial cost. The enforcement of capital punishment has not only been subject to review on the basis of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, but also due to scrutiny of public opinion and outrage. The first…

Death penalty on juveniles Capital punishment has continued to elicit raging debates over the years. Inferring from the Furman v. Georgia (1972), Gregg v. Georgia (1976) and the resumption of death penalty as the retribution, the issue of innocence continues to haunt and cause contentious public debates in the United States (Foley, 2004). With regards to this, consignment of juvenile offenders to the gallows have consistently been disputed as a disproportionate punishment to minors; those below…

Citizen Kane not only challenged traditional narrative and how a story was told, but also used progressive cinematography tactics to create a stimulating and interesting experience. Before Citizen Kane, movies were mostly articulated in a chronological straight-forward style dictated by large factory-style production companies. Orson Welles, the director of Citizen Kane, could create his masterpiece from autonomy and a hands-off approach by the studio heads. It’s conceivable to believe that…

Warrick, and Welles himself. As for the cinematography, Welles teamed up with Gregg Toland to create a never-before-seen cinematic experience. The movie opens up with several approaching shots of Kane’s self-made castle called Xanadu accompanied by suspenseful music which crescendos then halts as soon as it reaches the window of the room that…

attention without making them confused. In Citizen Kane (1941), Gregg Toland, the cinematographer, manipulates the mise-en-scène for deep focus to engage the whole space. More specifically, mise-en-scène includes “the relationship of everything in the shot to everything else in the shot—of actors to the décor…” (Belton 47). It covers many elements including setting, lighting, costume, the movement and actions of actors in the film. Toland effectively allows both the foreground and the background…

The way a photographer uses his or her camera can be the difference between a good movie or a great one. Gregg Toland, the cinematographer, won an Oscar for his work on the film Wuthering Heights, as well as created a new technique called deep-focus photography. Scott Higgins and Sara Ross of the Cinema Journal emphasize Toland’s influence on the film by stating, “Gregg Toland’s deep-focus cinematography deftly creates the moody, ethereal atmosphere of haunted love in a film universally…

misen-scene of von Sternber, and the deep-focus realism of Renoir” (Cook, 252). Welles’s also had remarkably talented collaborators. But, Welles’s greatest single technical asset in the filming of Kane, was his brilliant director of photography, Gregg Toland. Citizen Kane consists of a series of flashbacks portraying contradictory perspectives on Charles Foster Kane, piercing together his life from a number of different points of view. Welles wanted the narrative to flow poetically from image…

directing their thoughts and emotions. The depth of field technique creates a very realistic dynamic of watching the intimacy of a relationship grow or deteriorate before your eyes without the need of stating the facts. Welles choice of cinematographer Gregg Toland was a genius decision on his…

Citizen Kane is one of the greatest movies of all time. When Orson Welles made this movie he was years ahead of his time. Citizen Kane has changed everything about film. Every movie made after 1941 should be grateful for how Citizen Kane influenced the film industries. Citizen Kane introduced new things to Hollywood that people have never done before. Orson Welles used the camera like it was never used before. Orson Welles was a genius in understanding of cinema. Filmmakers were shocked by…