In this scene, news reporter Jerry Thompson is taken into a room which gives him the opportunity to read the memoirs of bank manager and Charles Foster's guardian, Thatcher. This scene helps introduce several flashbacks starting with Thompson sitting down where other techniques are used, such as shadowing when the room is dark with a beam of light hitting the book holding the entrance. This technique is called single source lighting, used to illuminate an object or person for an important purpose, usually resulting in some form of illumination. Welles uses the memoir as a symbolic key or map to discover who Charles Foster Kane was and what the meaning of “Rosebud” was. Also, the way Welles uses the ceilings to make the table appear longer and larger in relation to the newspaper that is the focal point is interesting. Welles also makes the piece huge. The book being captured in small format by the camera, because the book would not literally give him the answers he was looking for, he would have to find