Garry Reynolds has a repost of a really nice analysis of some of Orson Welles’s visual storytelling techniques in Citizen Kane.
Check it out.
And if you want a fantastic read on Welles’s early life and his storytelling in the theatre and on radio, pick up Simon Callow’s Orson Welles: Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu. My favorite story from the book involves Welles’s WPA production of Macbeth. In order to achieve deep perspective on stage for a battle sequence, he hired very short actors to stand far upstage with spears.
