Explain how the production context of Citizen Kane influenced the ‘look and feel’ of the end product.

Wells Career began in stage direction for theatre productions. Wells was in very high demand and Hollywood was determined to take him from his theatrical career. This lead to RKO giving him a huge amount of control in his first contract including complete control over writing, directing and editing and 939 727 thousand dollars which back in 1941 was a significant amount of money considering it was being given to an unproven 25 year old, This money went on sets, choosing his cast which he brought over from the federal theatre project, This caused controversy with the studio as all of the actors where only theatrically trained.