Schindler's List Essay

Introduction of the task My task for this project is to construct a film study about a movie know as “Schindler’s List”. The point of this task is to show how much I understood of the movie, and how much I remember. The main focus point of the film is to choose two Formal Elements of the Film, which were Narrative, Cinematography, Mise-en-scene, Editing and Sound. The two that I decided to choose were, Cinematography and Narrative. Narrative: is simply the ancient art form of storytelling. What a movie is about – its characters, and world – forms the narrative. A narrative is any connected events as a report, actual or imaginary. Cinematography: is the knowledge or art of motion picture photography by recording light or other electromagnetic

At first Oskar he was a self centered man who only cared about himself and a way to make money, but after witnessing the massacre of Jews, he had a change of mind and so he did anything in his power to protect them from the Nazi Soldiers. Amon Goth: He was an Austrian captain and the commandant of the concentration camps. He was convicted of homicide, the first such conviction at a war crimes trial, for “personally killing and torturing a substantial number of people. Amon was an inhumane person, who could kill without feeling anything after. Itzhak Stern: He was the accountant for Schindler’s enamelware company. He was credited with typing the list of names known as Schindler’s List. Even though he was Jewish and Schindler a member of the Nazi Party, Schindler was friendly to Stern. In a later meeting, Stern informed Schindler that he could use Jewish slave labor to staff his factory at a lower price than Polish laborers. Schindler, recognizing the advantage, took Stern up on his suggestion. Stern was said to be able to bring out the strong moral side of Schindler. Stern, like Schindler, was an opportunist, and he was a main contributor to the rescue of