Citizen Cane Questionaire

Citizen Kane Questionnaire View the flick CITIZEN KANE (1941) for discussion in class on week four and to submit week five. Be sure to put one over the contract at least twice before workshop effect four. Read the data in this syllabus about this movie. Research it online at http//www. ingestsite. org/citi. html http//en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Citizen_Kane, http//www. imdb. com/title/tt0033467/, http//www. cinepad. com/reviews/kane. htm, etc. Then complete the fol woefuling questionnaire A. literary Elements (Describe in one or ii sentences) 1. Structure (storytelling formatThe storytelling format for this read was more of an investigation kind of way, searching for the kernel of the word rosebud. Flashbacks employ without the film to fill in information that could lead to the meaning of the words. 2. Plot (story) The story is about a man who becomes a tycoon. sequence gaining riches, wives and possessions he loses his soul. He dies and some journalists want to discover the meaning of his demise words rose bud. 3. Theme (message) The theme message for this film is that money and power do not make a person. not all the power and money one person may develop is going to fulfill the happiness one desires. . Three moral issues in the story Power cannot buy happiness nor can it fulfill it. in that location were a few social issues, one of them being family and marriage issues such as divorce. Kanes fame and wealth cannot save him from his secret relationship. B. Mise en painting Theatrical Elements (give two examples each, noting briefly what you endure observed and where in the film) 5. queer Sets/Backdrops A. ) The tantrum where Kane and his married woman were at a cafe or eating house and the back drop was a wilderness or forest and they threw in animated birds flying through the backdrop.B. ) Another element was enormous fireside at Kanes residence. 6. Historic Costuming A. ) Their costumes represented the era and their social status. B. ) Kan e wore a thick, weighed down fur coat that represented his status having great take of money. 7. Notable Makeup A) Kanes makeup in the early stages teenage and youthful and at the end, it showed him 85 and old-marriage moving picture, young and when his hour wife was sledding him, it depicted him old with a cane B) Makeup shown when his second wife dressed up to sing opera at their theatre she wore heavy makeup . Composition (vertical lines, ceiling framing) A. ) in that location is a ceiling puke prognosis, where Kane and his fighter come across the reporter that had fallen asleep on the review of wifes performance. The camera foc utilize on his friend using a low tap showing the corner of the ceiling his head. B. ) In the theatre, during one of the performances the camera scrolls up looking at zero but the structure of the building. As the camera, scrolls up there were walkways or plain that went across the pervade. 9. High key lighting ( intellectual)A) When he me ets his second wife and goes to her place she is lit up and light depicting happy. B) There is naughty lighting used while watching the marching girls cheering and happy euphony play in background. 10. Low key Lighting (mystery) A. ) There is a face in the dark when Kane goes to meet someone for information about something. The dark shadow over the face shows that there is a secret. B. ) In the start of the film appears to be several men in a darkened room appears mystererious, searching for answers. All men s pass onover in the dark when that persuasion ends. C. Low key lighting used when fireworks launched into the sky. 11. Notable Acting (and movement) A. ) The end of the movie Kane destroys his second wifes room, breaking glass, flipping tables over, throwing everything on the ground, showing his anger, frustration and pain. B. ) Notable acting when Kane slaps his second wife across the face when she was complaining about the reviews in the write up about her performance. C. Cinematography (give two examples each, noting briefly what you have observed and where in the film) 12. Notable camera angles (low angle, high angle, etc. A) There is an extremely low angle when the boy receives a gift. B) There is a low angle during one of the opera performances when the camera looks down at the singing take sort of under the stage. 13. Notable Framing (two shot, three shot, four shot, cotton up framing) A) There is a three shot frame when Kane is typing the review. B) The guesswork where in the background, through the windowpane, a boy can be seen performing outside. C) There is foreground framing in the reflection shot from the window of Kane bounce. 14. Notable Framing (close-up)A) The conniption when Kane says, Rosebud with an extreme close-up of his lips. B) At the end of the movie when camera zooms in on Kanes childhood sled centre in on Rosebud 15. Notable lenses (deep focus, fish eye) A) The gibe with the boy playing in the snow, seen through the window while his mother signs documents has deep focus. B) The scene where Kanes wife is laying in the chair, the meds on the table seen up close and the focus remains clear to the bedroom door in the distance. 16. Notable Camera Movement ( crane shots, hand-held, etc. A) There is a crane shot camera breaks through the sign and into the broken skylight into the El Rancho Nightclub B) Crane shot- Emily went to Susans home and going up the steps into her home is one depicted. 17. Forced perspective A) The wedding scene of Emily and Kane argon using forced perspective of the White House. B) There is a image showing Kanes home, gate seen in the background on top of the hill. D. EditingAssembly and Printing of film (give two examples each, noting briefly what you have observed and where in the film) 8. Special Effects (animation, matting) A) There is animation in two of the scenes where they show you a map WB. B) There is also pushover scene where animated birds are flying. 19. Trans itions (dissolves, wipes, fades) A) Dissolving scene is when Thatcher, Bernstein, Kane are in a room, three are at a table and Kane is in the back. That letter reading shows 1929 and it dissolves. B) Earlier scene in beginning of film shows monkeys and so it proceeds and you see the castle . In all that field of battle all picture is showing dissolving.C) The Xanadu scenes were also dissolving scenes. D) His campaign scene showing his face in the background also dissolves. 20. Montage A) The scene at the breakfast table shows marriage nice and sweet then shows it falling apart. B) Another scene Thatcher calls Kane Charles at Christmas time and he heart-to-heart a Christmas present. This portrayed Thatcher young, Kane young, then next scene is reading a letter from Kane, and he is aged. D. Sound (give one example each) 21. Diegetic music A) When Kane receives the trophy.B) by and by the scene where Kane is typing the review. 22. Non-diagetic music A) After Kane leaves in the trop hy scene thee is non- diegetic music. B) Sound transition there was clapping going from one scene to another. 23. Notable or unusual music A) There is notable war machine music by the Teddy Roosevelt scene in the beginning of the film. B) The scene where you see the mannish woman there is echo and ironic music then you hear auditory sensation the audio transition and are slight subtle 24. Layering A) There was voice overlay at the beginning with Thatcher and two employees.Thatcher is upset with Him for working at the newspaper and losing money. B) When Kane was throwing his big party with dancing girls there was laughter and chaos, much vocal overlay. 25. Audio transitions A) There is an audio transition when Kane yelling transitions into the horn honking. B) Audio transition scene when Kane is heavy(p) a speech and the scene transitions through different speeches. 26. Dead screen A) There is dead screen after the montage of scenes going through the newspaper headlines the film goes into a dead screen.