This scene is one of the first scenes in the movie "Citizen Kane" by Orson Wells.  Just prior to this scene Wells character Charles Kane has just died.  In this scene, his ex-wife Susan, a failed opera singer is confronted by some journalist.  Their goal is to try and figure out what Kane's last word, "Rosebud" meant.  Susan wants nothing to do with them and she refuses to talk to them about anything. 

 

I decided to pick this scene because I thought the transition in the beginning was amazing.  The use if the lighting to move through the outdoor scene of the club where Susan was gives the audience a sense of the raw Susan is feeling upon the death of her ex spouse.  The allows the viewers to experience her raw emotion through this visual transition. 

 

I also thought the use of showing the rain on the sky light and how it blurred the window was an interesting dissolve edit technique to transition to the interior shot of the club where we see the ex Mrs. Kane hunched over a table crying.  We all have cried at some point so think about how it is to try to look through tear filled eyes; it is very much the same sensation we get in this transition.  The rain is like Susan's tears falling and she has cried so many tears, her vision is blurred from them. 

 

Citizen Kane was never one of my favorite movies.  It actually took me a few showings of the movie to really understand it.  What I do like is the whole film is shot in flashbacks upon the death of Mr. Kane.  All through out the movie there are very visually appealing and unique scene transitions.  This just was one that really stuck out in my head when thinking about this movie in general.