Cinematic Techniques In Citizen Kane

The film “Citizen Kane” used many different types of media aesthetics to portray the scenes and characters in certain ways. The movie used varying music choices to help show what emotion the viewer should be getting from each individual scene. “Citizen Kane” had the characters dress and modify their outfits in certain ways to show the differences in how their lives were being portrayed. These visual elements in the film help the audience contextualize how the characters are supposed to be viewed. The film also used different auditory devices to describe the different scenes, such as emphasize the size of certain rooms where the movie is taking place. Each of these details is a certain type of aesthetic that is used to help us perceive the scenes in a unique way, and to also make the audience feel certain emotions as they watch the film. These three details: music, sound effects, and wardrobe are all unique details that give the audience a better context in which to understand the film. The music choices in the film helped the audience better understand what the scene was trying to portray. At almost every scene there was a very different tone used in the background that corresponded to the movie’s plot. The foremost use of music to help make a scene more dramatic was when Charles, as a young boy, was

These details that were added to the movie to give the audience some background and context to better understand the actions of the characters. The film used all of the fundamental image elements to make the audience think of scenes a certain manner. The sound effects gave us an associative context to understand how large the scenes were while the music gave us more aesthetic context when to feel sadness and suspense during the film. “Citizen Kane” used these three Aesthetic choices to better communicate ideas to the