Carringer

The Carringer article was interesting because it gave me an inside view about the making of Citizen Kane, from idea conception to post-production. It seems like Orson Welles was a pretty difficult man to work for, especially because his films were not very successful. The dispute over the writing credit, for instance, seems crazy because it actually was Mankiewicz that wrote the original bones of the script. Also, I was wondering as I was reading if the amount of cuts that they had to make in order for the film to be around the starting budget was normal for this time, because the budget at the beginning was twice that which was allowed in the contract.

Welles' experience in the theater and the radio is evident in the sound of the film, and the Carringer book touched on this. Chapter 5 states '...the repertory approach, for instance, in which roles are created for specific performers with their wonderfully expressive voices in mind' is just one of the ways that Welles' previous experienced translated to his filmmaking style. Also, new technology in the recording of sound where 'the rerecording of sound for improvement or enhancement during postproduction' gave Welles options in how he was able to control the sound, especially the recorded dialogue.