SEQUENCE RESEARCH CAMERA WORK:THE GIRL IN REDSCHINDLER’SL I S T.

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PLOT OF THE SCENE An individual victim, lost. Schindler´s soul is touched by the child, he feels her pain, cries for her. The plight of the one little girl in red touches him in a way the shear numbers make

unreal, it is easy to get lost in numbers. He transforms the faceless mass around him into one real palpable human being. This one child is a symbol of all the 6.000.000 victims, exposed to ruthless slaughter. Each was an individual, who had dreams, who had a life, who had a family .

It was at that moment that Oscar Schindler vowed that he would do everything within his power to destroy the Nazi Regime. While the girl is strolling unscathed while murder and brutality happen all around her, we see other stories forming or ending, but even in a

telephoto view the viewer cannot take his eyes off the little red-tinted girl. She is the purity, the innocence, walking unnoticed through the Nazis, and witnessing their every crime. But the Nazis don't worry - at the end there will be no witnesses We do not know what has

happened to her until much later. The Nazis are ordered to dig up all the Jewish corpses they have buried to incinerate the evidence of the slaughter of the Cracow ghetto. As the decomposing corpses are trundled in wagons to the fires Oscar Schindler catch a glimpse of a

red-tinted rag of a corpse. The use of colour to follow the little girl in her red coat has by now achieved the stature of legendary. However, most people do not know that this image is based upon a true story, told at the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the most feared and hated Nazi

leaders of World War II, responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews.

EXTREME LONG/ POINT OF VIEW SHOT

In this shot , the director uses a long shot to look over a street being ambushed by S.S officers. In the midst of all the chaos a small girl walks down the street towards the camera. She is noticeable by her coloured jacket which is against the black and white imagery. The directors used this shot purposefully to show how little power the little girl has in the situation she is in , which keeps the audience intrigued to see if she will survive the short yet long journey down the street because of how quickly and carelessly the officers are taking lives all around her.

Furthermore, Speilburg purposefully uses a small section of the shot to focus the audience’s eyes on the small girls journey through the shot. The left hand side is blocked by a building and a group of trees block the right hand side , limiting our focus to the street where most of the action takes place – this is meant to be a p.o.v shot to show the overlooking character's (Liam Neeson) viewpoint. The street is constructed in a way that directs our eyes to the small girl. Things like the puddle and the action itself because her proximity to the action keeps the audience nervous for her.

MEDIUM SHOT This scene shows the little girl walking amongst a group of captured Jewish people. This is signified by their Star of David badges on their jackets.

The fact that the adults bodies from shoulder upwards are out of shot would give the connotation that they have no uniqueness or no identity in the society they live in.

HIGH ANGLE/POINT OF VIEW SHOTSo the audience are able to locate the little girl within the shot the director purposefully has the girl walk in the opposite direction to the long line of Jewish captives.

Also the German officer throwing out belongings from the apartment , leads the audiences view to where the girl emerges and makes her way through the shot.

Furthermore, the use of a high angle would demonstrate the girls lack of power in the situation she walks through and because the officer is higher in the shot this would show how he carries more power than the girl.

SECOND HIGH ANGLE/POINT OF VIEW SHOT This is another high angle shot and it again follows the young girls journey through the scene.

The space in between the trees shows several Jewish people being lined up to be executed by the Nazi’s.

As the shot is fired it shows the drop of the men and the walking on of the young girl as though to signify the end of their lives and her survival.

Again Spielberg decided to use the trees to restrict our view point , to also focus on another story within the scene. The audience witness this execution to reveal more information about the events of the holocaust all the while keeping the audience intrigued to see the little girls fate.

THIRD HIGH ANGLE SHOT

This shot shows a number of captives being forced into a military truck.

The camera is positioned at a higher angle to be a point of view shot so.

The girl in the red coat is again moving in a different direction to the other people and her coloured clothing makes her stand out more.