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Rodrigo Salinas December 19, 2013 Mrs. Elliot AP English Kane Device Analysis Citizen Kane’s uses of camera effects highlight important emotions, moments, and characters throughout the movie and separates Citizen Kane from most movies of its time. They take advantage of camera angles, motion, and editing to make certain scenes look far more important than others. Citizen Kane has several moments in which camera shots play a big role in the movies success. The Director uses motion to dramatize moments. When Kane is on his death bed He slowly drops his snow globe and it falls slowly to the floor. He slows down the motion of the snow globe to emphasize its importance in this film. He also uses the characters motion to express emotion. When Kane is arguing with Susan he is sitting down in complete stillness, and acts calm. However when he gets up and starts moving around you can notice a complete shift in his attitude. He becomes aggressive and angry. Motion is also used at Kane’s board meeting. He throws a party and there are dancers. Dancing is typically a happy thing. One can tell Kane is happy by the way his body is happily dancing. Movement is also used in his wedding announcement. He is joyous. Motion is used as a method of showing emotions as well as to dramatize moments in the movie. The Camera angles and shots in citizen Kane really showed depth in the movie. It showed importance of characters, and scenes, but also added mystery. In the very beginning of the movie we see Charles Forster Kane die. The director gets a really close up shot of his lips when he speaks his final words. It emphasizes the importance of those words and grabs the viewer into wanting to know the meaning and importance of those words. When we cut to the newspaper ads It zooms in on Kane’s name. This is used to only highlight news about Kane instead of the whole paper. When Thatcher
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