In Citizen Kane the director popularized the style of using the camera to convey the characters status in a scene. An example of this when Kane is walking towards the massive window showing him getting further away and demonstrating to the audience his growing disconnect with everyone around him.

Another example of the director using cinematography to improve the scenes is with the use of set design. For example at the end when the camera is flying thought Kane’s boxed assets its constructed in a way to look like an entire city. Whereas if the shot was just a straight still.

Overall the main way the directors convey the story-line of Citizen Kane is  through the actors port-rials of the characters with the main example being Kane’s angry outburst where he destroys all the items in his second wife room. The actor Orson Well’s use of physicality when he throws the lamp post over the wardrobe demonstrates his destructive anger at that instant.