How does Welles use camera shots to develop character theme setting and mood Begin to explore and appreciate the ways in which a director can use camera shots and angles to help tell and develop a story This is an idea will run throughout this unit and will be a major focus of it ID: 696908
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What’s on for today and why?
How does Welles use camera shots to develop character, theme, setting and mood?
Begin
to explore and appreciate the ways in which a director can use camera shots and angles to help tell and develop a story. This is an idea will run throughout this unit and will be a major focus of it.Slide2
What’s on for today and why
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NEWS ON THE MARCH
Possibly the most impressive sequence in the whole film is the
News On The March
newsreel which tells the whole of Kane’s story, though the film has scarcely begun. The newsreel was a parody of
The March Of Time
cinema newsreels and the scratchiness of some of the footage was achieved through two of Citizen Kane’s editors dragging the film about the studio floor.
Task
Watch the film up to the conclusion of the newsreel What do we learn from newsreel about Kane? What effects do you notice in the newsreel that makes it look as if it s a genuine newsreel?