Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane (1941) brought about change to the way Hollywood made movies. It is likely the most famous and highly-rated film due to the extraordinary innovative cinematic techniques used throughout this black and white film by its star, director, and producer, Orson Welles. This paper will discuss some of these techniques and provide a few examples from this remarkable movie. Orson Welles, in his film Citizen Kane (1941) challenged the traditional narrative and technical elements of classic Hollywood

Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film by Orson Welles, who was its producer, co-author, director and star. The film is about news reporters following the death of a publishing tycoon, they scramble to discover the meaning of his final word that he spoke: “Rosebud”. Citizen Kane won the title as the greatest film ever made when it topped the 1962 Sight and Sound poll. It held the top spot for 50 years until it fell to second behind Vertigo (1958). The film is commonly praised for its intricate

The film Citizen Kane uses stylistic cinematography techniques that help stress both material presence and textual representation. One of the main techniques used throughout the film is deep focus which usually makes everything that’s in the frame of the shot relevant. This deep focus contributes toward the viewing of the film as presence and also representation. For example, one could think of the “ broad and self-conscious use of deep focus…as an attempt to present images that are purely and

Citizen Kane is one of the world's most famous and highly-rated classic film masterpiece. Although it was not a commercial success at the time of its release it has always been praised by film critics. The film had a budget of $800,000 and was directed, produced, as well as acted by the twenty five year old Orson Wells. Wells used innovative and unique cinematic techniques in Citizen Kane that would influence the film making for all eternity. One cinematic technique that Wells used was the

INTRODUCTION Citizen Kane is a drama, mystery starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore. The 1941 firm was written by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles. Moreover, the film was directed by Orson Welles. The film was distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. Citizen Kane is considered to be the greatest film of all time ranking number one on “AFI's 100 GREATEST AMERICAN FILMS OF ALL TIME”. (SOURCE: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/ http://www.afi.com/100years/movies10.aspx) PLOT SUMMARY

history in 1941 when he produced, co-wrote, directed, and starred in the revolutionary American mystery drama Citizen Kane. The movie follows Kane’s pursuit of power, and the dangers that lay beyond it, as well as Kane’s loss of innocence and the resonating effects that it has on he and his life. Welles’ co-writer Mankiewicz based the outline of the protagonist,

Citizen Kane was groundbreaking in many ways, as it introduced some new techniques and challenged the classical way of shooting film and storytelling. The producer Orson Welles, who also directed and played the character Charles Kane, used nine different narrative sequences to tell the story. Some innovative techniques that he incorporated were the mobile camera, depth of field, lighting/ framing, effects, and the film is done in a non-linear story telling approach, which was different than other

Directed by Orson Welles in 1941, Citizen Kane gave this young, brash, first time movie director unheard of control over the film. The finished result, through the use of flash-back and third- person interview shows Charles Foster Kane's life unfold through the eyes of the people who thought they knew him and those who did not know him at all. Welles used long camera angles, depth perspective, and shadow in the noir style, in new and interesting ways throughout this film, as apposed to standard two

The use of lighting in this film was very pretentious and was used to add good aspects to Citizen Kane. The lighting changed based off what the mood corresponded-for example, some scenes had a copacetic or pleasant mood. In the beginning, the scene was a very formidable scene. The lighting was dark which portrayed fear towards the audience. The mood was implying fear and almost an alarming mood for the viewers-the lighting helped entail this by giving dark, hair raising lighting. The type of lighting

and film critic Roger Ebert, Citizen Kane, is a movie directed, co-authored, produced and starred by Orson Welles and released in 1941. The film follows a series of flashbacks to solve a mystery, and is based upon newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. The movies subtle comparison between the fictional protagonist, Charles Foster Kane (played by Orson Welles) and William Randolph Hearst leads Hearst to ban any mention of the movie in his newspapers. Citizen Kane shows the harsh realities of the