Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane

From the beginning, mankind has used light, as an energy source that generates life, this radiation that propagates in waves, is capable of causing an impact on the existence of aliving, removing an area of ​​darkness and darkness. Today, man has harmonized the pace of life with the use of lighting and with the passage of time has improved and in turn properly designed to meetyour needs, which include a field that goes beyond a simple photograph.

This movie is about Charles Foster Kane, he is a fictional character and the subject of Orson Welles’s movie. Through Kane’slife in the movie you can see that the light is brighter when his young and when his getting older the light begins to get darker, this is like trying to show how Kane’s life is getting darker, howhis happy childhood becomes an empty adulthood. He maybe became a powerful man but his life and relationships were empty and he always had a sad feeling or memory about how he was separated of hisparents and his sled called “Rosebud”. That was his last word before his death. That was the major plot in the movie because no one knew what that word meant.

This movie has been really studied becauseit was made in a new era of cinema that focused on visual effects and its impact on the story. Its deliberate style betrayed convention of classic films that relied on a seamless image, devoid of anystylistic techniques. The use of the light is an important subject throughout Citizen Kane. The childhood of Kane is shining. As it grows, the light in the patches that put of relief the balancebetween the decency and the corruption decays that seem to follow the life of Kane. Welles also is used the photography the depth of field as a form to allow the public who to read at great lengthactivates a scene without the intrusion of the editing, by Welles an interruption of space and real time.

Composition also was a fundamental part of the narration in Citizen Kane. Personages were placed...