Words in Action

1. What details about the Holocaust experience became clearer or more vivid for you because of the video?
   I knew that many prisoners were killed in the gas chambers, but I wasn't aware that the guards could actually watch them die through windows and they actually found amusement in doing this.
   
   
2. Describe the video techniques used to tell this story:
   
   • Camera angles
     Motivated pans, zooms, and rack focuses help to make the video more engaging while still keeping the viewer's attention on the message of the story.
     
     
   • Graphics
     The graphics were disturbing, yet they did an excellent job of showing how the brutal the camps were as well as how many people died and the way they disposed of the dead bodies.
     
     
   • Interviewing
     The type of interview in this documentary isn't the traditional way of interviewing. Instead of setting up a formal interview, Oprah and Wiesel simply walk through the camp and Wiesel tells his story of what he remembers that happened in that particular camp. I feel that this was effective way in telling the story because it set the mood very well.
     
     
   • Excerpts from the book
     This was a very good way to help tell the story especially because we could relate to it because we read the book.
     
   
   
3. What is the "madness" the Oprah and Elie Wiesel speak of at the end of this section?
   Wiesel was talking about the inhumanity of the guards.