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How do the cinematic techniques used in the opening reel of Citizen Kane illustrate ideas seen in the whole film?
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How do the cinematic techniques used in the opening reel of Citizen Kane illustrate ideas seen in the whole film? The opening reel of Citizen Kane is more famously known as the 'Rosebud Prologue'. The section itself is a mere five minutes in length, but contains at least eighteen scenes. Each scene is very short but they are very cleverly linked. The entire opening sequence is called a reel, as the film would have been first stored on large reels of acetate film mounted on projection machines. Citizen Kane in its entirety would have been stored on about twenty reels. Cinematography is the study of camerawork, cinematical photography and the visual composition of shots. This means looking at how the director has used different camera angles and lighting to enhance the viewing of the film. Cinematography also means thinking about why a director has changed the angle of camera in keeping with...
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