"It's his sled. It was his sled from when he was a kid. There I just saved you two long boobless hours."
But seriously, I enjoyed this movie a lot. Normally if I'm flipping through TV channels and come across and old black and white movie like this one, I'd probably change the channel. But that would not be the case if I were to come across Citizen Kane. It's a very engaging story and keeps you hooked until the very last shot.
One of the ways this is accomplished is through the use of perspective relations throughout the movie, specifically deep focus. This kind of camera work is used to give the audience more information about Kane. For example, when he is forced to sign away his fortune, he is filmed in such a manner that when he walks all the way to the back of the room, all of a sudden he looks tiny, as if to say that he doesn't know or care about what's going on. Another good example of this is when he argues with Susan Alexander. This scene is filmed from a low angle and makes Kane seem HUGE when compared to Susan.
Overall, Welles and his production team did a wonderful job of making the characters true identities shown through the use of different camera angles and filming techniques.
~PSH
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Rosebud...
"It's his sled. It was his sled from when he was a kid. There I just saved you two long boobless hours."
But seriously, I enjoyed this movie a lot. Normally if I'm flipping through TV channels and come across and old black and white movie like this one, I'd probably change the channel. But that would not be the case if I were to come across Citizen Kane. It's a very engaging story and keeps you hooked until the very last shot.
One of the ways this is accomplished is through the use of perspective relations throughout the movie, specifically deep focus. This kind of camera work is used to give the audience more information about Kane. For example, when he is forced to sign away his fortune, he is filmed in such a manner that when he walks all the way to the back of the room, all of a sudden he looks tiny, as if to say that he doesn't know or care about what's going on. Another good example of this is when he argues with Susan Alexander. This scene is filmed from a low angle and makes Kane seem HUGE when compared to Susan.
Overall, Welles and his production team did a wonderful job of making the characters true identities shown through the use of different camera angles and filming techniques.
~PSH
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3 comments:
Wow you really did like that Family Guy quote!
Deep focus was FO SHO a reoccuring element throughout the film. I think the engaging part of the movie is that you just want to figure out what the crap rosebud was to Kane.
En tout cas, bien fait.
Yeah i agree pretty much with everything you said. Good use of the family guy qute lol. Orson welles really did make it seem like the actors were the characters
It was a pretty good movie. I really did like the way he used camera angles to add feeling to the movie. I found it cool that he was able to make a man look powerful just by the way Welles photographed him.
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