PPT Slide
- contrasting film styles: opening sequence moves from moody Expressionism, through a upbeat parody of March of Time newsreels, to backlit film noir scene
- editing effects: swish pans connect montage elements in scene showing the growing distance between Kane and his first wife; lap dissolve connects Leland and his remembered events.
- deep-focus photography: used to compsoe foreground to background and to symbolicaaly show Kane’s distance from others
- chiaroscuro lighting: emphasizes moral dichotomies in film
- exotic camera angles: low angles used to show Kane’s dominance and crane shots used to draw viewer in and out of scenes
- sound effects: overlapping dialogue and a deep sound field