Orson Welles Auteurism

Signature features -

- fondness for baroque
- low-key, high-contrast lighting and chiaroscuro to compliment his diegesis as well.
- tendency to use deep focus/deep space composition to compliment his themes
- corruption
- isolation

- downfall of a successful or powerful man

auteur signatures in The Lady From Shangai - 

- Deep focus shots - shown in bottom right image
- theme of corruption, Michael is framed, Elsa tries to kill Michael.
- Chiaroscuro, shown in top right image 




















auteur signatures in Citizen Kane -

- baroque style in Kane's mansion Xanadu
- Isolation - Kane repeatedly finds himself isolated from the world around him, whether he is young or old, happy or unhappy, alone or surrounded by others