Citizen Kane Work

1. The film should have a variety of screen shots using (tracking and static shots), music to build tention and help to inform you on the type of scene that is upcoming, good actors- character portrail is important to the sucess of the film, and the use of cinematography and mise-en-scene.
2. At the start of the film 'Citizen Kane' the genre of the film looks like a 'film noir' as every shot is very dark and only some key features stand out. Because there is a lack of natural light.
3. In 'Citizen Kane' Welles uses the technique 'frame in a frame' to reverse our initial impression of the importance of characters in relation to their surroundings, for example the reflection of Kane dancing in the window of the newspaper factory, this helps to hint on the importance of kane to the paper.
4. The sequence where the camera goes throught the skylight of the El Rancho Nightclub is repeated a second time later on in the film, this is done as you know see the scene and characters in a different perspective, as you now know the whole story.
5. In the scene in which Susanne attempts suicide, Herrmans music contributes to the scene because the music used is the music she use to sings to, so it informs the audience that the opera music is in her head constantly as it is all she has been thinking about.
6. The scene i have chosen to describe is the scene in which Susanne trys to defie Kane, and the fact that at the moment she shouts back at Kane the film turns to the noir side, she is cast into a dark shadow, as this helps to show that she is in Kanes shadow no matter how much she argues and that Kane is the contrroller. When Kane shouts back she backs down to kneeling again she is now in the natural light of a window, helping to show that no-matter how much she believes he is wrong she will never succeed in putting her point across.