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This 3 page paper examines Welles' use of a technique called "deep focus" through close study of two scenes from the movie Citizen Kane. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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first, Orson Welles film is a compelling psychological study of a powerful but unloved, perhaps misunderstood, man; and second, he invented marvelous camera techniques for this film that revolutionized filmmaking
for all time. This paper examines Welles use of a technique called "deep focus" through close study of two scenes from the movie. Deep Focus Deep focus
is a technique that keeps everything in the shot in focus, no matter where it is located. In other words, background, middle ground, and foreground objects are all sharp
and clear. Its a masterful technique for allowing us to observe all the action in the scene, not only what the characters are doing in the foreground, but whats
happening behind them. The two actions are not always the same, nor do they necessarily complement each other. Welles uses deep focus wherever he can, and there are so
many wonderful possibilities its difficult to choose just two. However, lets look at the scene at the Kane farmhouse in 1870; and the scene at Xanadu after Susan leaves
and Kane walks in front of a line of mirrors. The shooting script tells us the first scene is number 21; it opens outside Mrs. Kanes boarding house where its
daytime and snow is falling. "Charlie" (Charles Foster Kane) is playing outside, and the camera stops on him. He rolls a snowball and throws it toward the camera;
it sails past and out of the frame. The angle reverses and we see that hes thrown the snowball at the sign that says "Mrs. Kanes Boardinghouse" (Kael 137).
The camera stays on Charlie playing in the snow, then it finally pulls back, through the window, and we find ourselves inside the parlor, where Mrs. Kane looks through
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