Citizen Kane - Hollywood and Literature HS ELA Film Studies

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Basic Film Vocabulary: Distance, Angle, and Depth of Field

When I first started teaching Film Studies to high school seniors, I initially fretted over students taking the class because they didn't think it was "a real English class". (It was -- students received 4 credits, as they would any other gen-ed English class, and I

Analysis

A Deep Focus Shot Analysis Model

A deep focus shot has a long depth of field, which essentially means there is a long distance that is seen clearly, in focus. This shot from Citizen Kane is an example of a deep focus shot (although the entire film is pretty much famous for being shot in deep focus).