Thursday 19 April 2018

Orson Welles

Auteur Trademarks

Use of low-key and high-contrast lighting
Favoured themes include isolation, corruption and the downfall of a powerful figure
Use of hard light, which creates harsh shadows
Precise and extravagant use of mise-en-scene
He created Deep Focus- Richly focused background, mid-ground and foreground
Use of long tracking shots
Use of smoke and mirrors
He had annoy for expressive faces
Starring as a main role in his own movies
He had no technical aspects but he had the creativity and imagination to achieve the shots he wanted.

Orson Welles experimented when he was making hit films, through the use of different camera lenses and lighting schemes.


Example of Long Tracking shot in Touch of Evil


The Lady From Shanghai Mirrors














Examples of Deep Focus in Orson Welles' Films



























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