arious camera shots which the director uses. In the first frame the audience see is a long shot of a man on a hill with a horse. This slowly zooms in to the face of the character. This shows his appearance as discussed earlier. The effect of having him on top a hill shows his dominance, again suggesting that he is probably a bad guy. The next two riders are shown in similar fashion. When the men ride off the camera is positioned at waist height and it is pointed upwards to the riders. This creates the dominance factor and a feeling of insecurity passes over the audience.
             Then the director moves to the friendly cohesive town. The screenplay of the church is rather ironic but it gives us the good verses bad scenario. The townsfolk seem be fairly close knit. The director shows this in two ways. The first is he groups the people like the church folk and the bar folk. Then he uses dialogue at Kane's wedding effectively.
             The technique of using dialogue is partly ironic. Kane has the support from the four prominent figures of the town who claim the town 'will be safe till tomorrow'. This is ironic as a few minutes later they convince Kane to 'get out'.
             From this the viewer starts to get an understanding of Kane's character. However Kane is depicted to be an ordinary man unlike all the 'John Wayne' type heroes in westerns. This is where the audience sees some of the flaws in Kane's character. The techniques the director uses to shape our understanding that Kane is like every man, at this point is dialogue.
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