Monday, November 12, 2007

LANGUAGE OF FILM

The most remarkable and noticeable elements of language of film that we could find in the movie were:

1. Mise-en-scene

- Settings: Most of this story was set in the "Incuirer news paper" and the mansion that Kane shared with his wife. The mansion was decorated with many status and expensive furnitures.
- Acting: There were only actors and actresses
- Costumes: The costumes of the characters were typical for that time, they represented high class society.
- Lighting: At the beginning of the movie we could see darkness and foggie scenes that represented kane's death and the time period behind the movie.
- Make-up: The make-up of the characters was used in order to show the age of each characters.
- Print: In the movie there were two types of print; diagetic (we could see this type of print when kane and his first wife were havind breakfast, they were riding the newspaper) and non-diagetic (we could see this at the beginning of the movie when kane's death was announced in the news).
2. Sound:
- Music: Mistery kind of music during the whole movie, in order to show the tension of the plot.
- Dialogue: The dialogue between the characters was too fast and loud.
- Narrator: The kind of narrator was "off voice"; we couldn't see the narrator when he talked about what was happening.
3. Editing:
- Cut: The dissolved cuts were used a lot to go from one scene to the other. Also jump-cut was used because the scenes were not in a chronological order.
- Time: Racconto was used every time when the characters remebered their lives when kane was alive.
4. Cinematography:
- Camera angle: At the beginning of the movie an aerial shot was used to show kane's mansion but most of the time straight angle was used.
- Camera distance: Extreme long shot (ELS) was used when kane was canvasing. Most of the time medium shots were used. There were a few close ups that showed Kane's second wife singing.
- Camera movements: Panning was used all the time. The camera moves only from one side to the other.
- Framing: The actors and actresses act frame in, this is to say; in the screen.

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