Citizen Kane

In the greatest movie of all time "Citizen Kane" the director Orson Wells using a lot of low key lighting to show many different things of importance, that in the end of the movie come back to help you figure out what there true meaning really was at the beginning. Orson Wells uses low key lighting throughout the movie something’s that stand out to me are; is the lighting on the declaration of principle's, in scenes where he wanted more powerful lighting, and in scenes where he wanted to character to seem bigger, smaller, or just different.

In the scene with the declaration of principles he has most of the light on the piece of paper to show how important it is and that it really means a lot to the three guys. It also shows that they all agree on things that need to happen between them. When Wells using low-key lighting you know that it will come up again in a later scene.

In scenes where he wanted to have more powerful lighting, when Kane is typing on the type writer and Leland walks in from the back room, it blurs Kane out a little bit and puts a lot of light on Leland to show his importance in that scene and what he was supposed to be doing, is what Kane was really doing then.

In some scene's where he just wanted to show a difference in color or person. He would put light in some areas that would not normally be lit like the white cuffs on a man’s shirt. Or him when he is giving his speech to show how he is on top. I think he does this because he wants to show how he can using a little lighting to change to meaning of something by a lot, also we wants to show the importance of many things throughout the movie.