Thursday, February 27, 2014


When you talk about Citizen Kane you have to mention the technicality of the film, the use of the camera angles or the camera focus can give you a perspective of the scene that you wouldn’t get if it wouldn’t have been that camera angle.  An example of this is when Mr Kane is in front of his portrait while he is giving his intense speech.  The use of the low angle made it feel that he was larger than life and that he was the most powerful person there.  Without the low angle the shot wouldn’t have given you the impression of how he felt about himself and you could have interpreted the scene in a different way.  Another scene where our influence was swayed was where Susan overdosed on medicine and in the scene the medicine bottle and Mr Kane were in focus while Susan was not, this showed that the medicine bottle and mr Kane was important while Susan was not important this allowed us to understand how Mr Kane felt about the situation because it showed that he didn’t care about how she was sick he only cared about how she would impact him in the press.   Without These camera angles and camera focuses the viewers can interpret scenes in a lot of different ways but with these camera angles the director can influence your interpretation. 

No comments:

Post a Comment