Schindlers list is a film directed by Steven Spielberg and is about the life of Schindler a great man who helped the Jews in the Holocaust. The first opening sequences are the most important because by the use of symbols, camera movement, and contrast, they are used very well to foreshadow the rest of the story.

The use of symbols are probably the most easily recognised technique used to foreshadow in the story. In one of the opening shots we see a little Jewish boy looking into a flame. The flame of the candle symbolises hope and foreshadows that there is a light of hope further on in the film.

In the shot after that we see two candles on their own on the dinner table. This symbolises or represents Schindler and Ischack Stan and that they

The use of camera movement is a more subtle technique used to foreshadow. We see in the opening scene a low angle shot of a family of a Hassidic Jewish family standing around a table praying. The low angle shot gives us a sense of the power they have in there faith and the tight support they have towards one another. This foreshadows the strength they have throughout the film to try and survive the slaughter.

When the candle goes out the camera very cleverly is moved from the plume of smoke from the candle to the smoke of the steam engine. This foreshadows later in the story the change from the smoke of the steam engine to the smoke of where people are being burnt in Auschwitz.

My last point is the way that contrast between black and white is used in the story. In the first shot of the story we see a burning candle against a dark backgro

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