Schindlers List.

Schindlers List.

1. Introduction

   • Title of Film, director and brief outline of the film
     • Schindlers List by Steven Spielberg
       • Schindlers list was set in WW2 where Adolf Hitler was runnningthe Nazi Army, Hitlers goal was to make a perfect world and his invisioned perfecct world was Jewish people free. The film is a Nazi man who disliked the Jews but overtime realises that they did nothing wrong and he ends up saving 1200 Jewish People.
   • Techniques that you will discuss
     • Music, Costuming and Camera Shots
   • How these techniques show the theme/s of the film

2. Paragraph one

   • Discuss first technique and its importance
     • Music
       • OYF N Pripetshok and Nacht Aktion . The song gives you an uneasiness kind of feel to the whole scene. It engages you in what is happening to the Jews and it was not fair for the Germans to do that to them.
   • Give examples from the clip
     • The song was also placed during the girl in the red coat part of the scene. The girl in the red coat is quite young during the film, which also highlights the theme of innocence of children as spielberg could of placed a grown adult into the red coat he chose to place the red coat on a child, which focuses on the children instead of the adults
   • Explain why Spielberg used this technique - relate to other events in the film, characterisation or theme/s
     • Fear, The song is sang by a choir in a resinating room which gives the whole scene a creepy kind of feel to it which adds fear onto the scene. This shows the fear of all the Jews during the scene as the Germans are taking them to a place of possible death.
       • Along with Fear another theme that is used is the innocence of children, this is used by having the song sang by a choir of children, which helps the viewer think of the children while watching this scene. It highlights how in the film, the German were attacking children that caused no harm to them in any way possible.

3. Paragraph Two

   • Discuss second technique and its importance
     • Costuming
       • The arm bands claiming who the jews were
         • Girl in the red coat is an important part of costuming simply because red represents the simply because her coat is the only color object, other than the Shabbat candles, presented in the main body of the film. To Schindler, she represents the innocence of the Jews being slaughtered.
   • Give examples from the clip
   • Explain why Spielberg used this technique - relate to other events in the film, characterisation or theme/s
     • Innocence of Jewish people
   • Link to the third technique

4. Paragraph Three

   • Discuss the third technique and its importance
     • Camera Shots
   • Give examples from the clip
     • High Angle shot, looking down on the Jews and the Germans
       • Close up of the Jews putting the rings inside the bread
         • Themes are fear and hope
       • Themes are denial and innocence
   • Explain why Spielberg used this technique - relate to other events in the film, characterisation or theme/s
     • These techniques show that the Jewish people had to go to extremes to stay alive and be able to have money in the future after the liquidation.
       • In the High Angle Schindler starts to recognize the innocence of all of the Jews

5. Conclusion

   • What have the techniques you discussed revealed about the film as a whole
   • Your overall understanding of how Spielberg used techniques to highlight particular themes or aspects of characters
   • What impact these techniques made on the audience
   • Comments and observtions about society or the world today