Docudrama

Schindler's list is a docudrama made in 1993 about Oskar Schindler a German businessman who during holocaust saved over a thousand Jewish refugees. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg and based on a book called Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally. The film is filmed like a documentary, about forty percent of the film was shot with a handheld camera to make it seem like a documentary. Nearly the entire film was also shot in black and white this could be so the audience doesn't know when the film was made so it makes the film seem even more real and more like a documentary. The film has a linear timeline, it is all in order of when it really happened. Music is being played through the majority of this clip, the music creates a dramatic and emotional atmosphere to go with the emotional scene. Also the film is a realist movie as it shows real events of the past, The ending of the film is closed as it is a docudrama about events of the past and the events finish at the end of the film. The scene with the girl in the red coat, shows a girl amongst the chaos in Nazi Germany, the surroundings and people around her are all in black and white however her coat is red this is symbolic, It makes the little girl stand out to the audience while the chaos around her continues, during this scene it cuts to Oskar Schindler on a hill then back to the girl which makes the audience think he is looking at the chaos that is going on in front of him. But the way coat is in colour even though everything else is in black and white also makes you think that maybe Schindler is looking at the little girl(Look at 0:07 of the video and ends at the end of the video).