Carringer Chapter 3

Carringer Chapter 3

Reading Carringers chapter on how the artwork was made and produced was just amazing. It inspired me, trying to become a film maker and producer myself to hear how Wells was just so spontaneous in the things he did, unplanned decisions in response to unseen realties that the audience wasn’t used to. When he produced this film some of the scenes that were conducted he stated that they were only practicing and reviewing to keep the people funding him off his back because he really did go off the norm of conventional filmmaking. At the time the people that funded the film would tell him to stop but he processed without their notice and made one of the best films in the history of our time. The one thing that struck out to me in the art department was the scene in the big museum and monument of Thatcher when the reporter(Raymond) went to the achieves to get information for “rose bud” that scene was a real scene in a real room, I originally thought it was all special effects but when Raymond proceeded to the door in the back I was impressed that they pulled that off so well. Differing for the Wizard of OZ of the backdrop of OZ was clearly a painting of some sort, I thought the same originally in this but it turned out to be a real scene.  As a filmmaker it was also neat to see how the entire art department process worked, it went from small sketches to small scale and then to the real thing and how much change occurs in between them. The pictures really helped as well to explain what they meant by that. As viewers without reading this chapter or any of the others we don’t realize how much work goes into these films all together and it really makes you appreciate the film more and how much they could do for its time. Citizen Kane will always remain as one of my favorites.