Schindler's List

Contents

Introduction 2

Symbolism 6

Technology 8

Setting: 10

Analysis Video Transition Effects 11

* Zooming 11

* Panning Shot. 12

* Over shoulder track in shoot 13

* Mixing Focal lengths. 14

* Shot reverse shot 15

* Crane shot 16

* Framing through foreground objects. 17

* Wide lenses shoot. 18

Analysis creative motion effect: 19

Isolated color grade/ Pleasantville effect. 19

Analysing the use of dynamic titles 20

Black and white filming Technique 21

Analysis of audio editing and effects 22

Reference 23

Introduction:

A movie directed by award winning Steven Spielberg, starring Ben Kingsley, Ralp Fiennes, Liam Nesson, and Caroline Goodal. Winning the 1993 Academy awards for Best Picture. The story tells the events of Post War Poland with Oskar Schindler wanting to take advantage of the invasion of Nazi Germany in Poland.

Run time: 3 hours 15 minutes

Plot:

Schindler's List is a documentation style movie about the accounts and actions of Oskar Schindler during post war Poland, an opportunistic business man from Germany. The settings of the story is post World War 2 Poland. 1939 Nazi Germany has successfully invaded Poland and forced the relocation of Polish Jews to the ghetto in Krakow.

In the following of this events, Oskar Schindler a native German from Moravia arrives in Krakow with intent to exploit and make money from the relocation of the Polish Jews. As a member of the Nazi party, Schindler befriends high ranking SS officials that are in charge of procurement to attain a factory of his own.

Schindler then attains a factory that manufactures army mess kits but he is unsure of how to run the whole operation. So he approaches Itzhak Stern, an accountant and an official at Krakow's Jewish council and he is well familiar with how the business runs.

As the story progresses Schindler experiences a major change of heart as he witnesses the many hardships of the Jews from the Nazis. He then meets Amon Goeth an SS officer in charge of the concentration camps in Plaszow. Goeth, a cruel and sadistic officer with unknown hate towards the Jews, he tends to randomly execute Jews in the concentration camp.

By the end of the film, it is explained why the title 'Schindler's List' is used. The events of the story are true accounts, interviews, and testimonies coming from the survivors of the concentration camp. These survivors were helped by non-other but Schindler.

Team/Crew

Director: Steven Spielberg.

Cast:

Liam Neeson: Oskar Schindler Ralph Fiennes: Amon Goeth

Ben Kingsley: Itzhak Stern

Noted Cast:

Norbet Weisser: Alber Hujar

Elina Lowensohn: Diana Reiter

Jonathan Sagalle: Poldek Pfefferberg

Andrzej Seweryn: Julain Scherner

Embeth Davidtz: Helen Hirsch

Crew:

Make-Up Christina Smith

Sound Coordinators Nelson Andy

Sound Coordinators Pederson Steven

Sound Architectures Millan Scoot

Sound Architectures Judkins Roland

Composer John Williams

Director of photography Kaminski Janusz

Editor Michael Kahn

Set decorator Starski Allan

Set Decorator Ewa Braun

Costume Designer Sheppard Anna

Symbolism:

Girl in the Red Coat

A scene where a girl in a red coat is one of the key scene, mainly because her coat is the only colored object seen since the beginning of the film other than the Shabbat candles. It represents mainly the point of the film. To the main protagonist Oskar, she is the embodiment the innocence of Jews being slaughtered during the liquidation of the ghetto. As events of the movie progress it is known that she was killed, this marked the death of innocence and to Oskar's eyes this drew the line and made him realize his mission.

Road made with Jewish Headstones

In an actual location such a road exist, made with Jewish Headstones torn up from Jewish cemeteries. The road exist through the Plaszow labor camp. This scene symbolizes the death of the Jewish race. With this the Jewish captives realize that they are stripped from the privilege of having a final resting place and as they build the road they too realize that it will soon happen to them. This shows the fact that the Nazi's plot on erasing them from history.

Mountain of Personal items

As the Jews are forced to board their train to an unknown destination, the German guards informed them to leave all their belongings and that it would follow them on a separate train. Only to lie to the Jews to loot their belongings. As the luggage are opened hundreds of pictures, eye glasses, jewelry, clothes, and shoes are stacked together piling up. The pile represents the