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Director: Ron ScalpelloDECONSTRUCTION OF OFFENDER (2012)

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CAMERA WORK.The camera work at the very start of Offender is a long shot where thecharacter is in a dark alley. The camera isin a dark part of the alley and as it goesdown the alley towards the character thealley gets lighter by street lights giving thealley a quite dark yellow/gold lighting to it. Also the camera is used in more ways thanone, the camera man and director dont just agree on close up and long shots theyuse the camera in different ways like bytracking past an alley way while thecharacter walks up the alley. The use of close ups on his face make the character

look very determined and fearful. Usinglighting to cover the one side of the faceand the other side having light makes thatscene just look that much better. It couldsay the character has a good side but alsoa bad side with the good side representing

the light and the bad side representing thatdarkness.

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EDITING.The editing throughout the film is verycomplicated but it makes the film unique. After the opening scene that audience will realise

that the attack on the police officers by themain character has been edited so that yousee him going to prison before you know thereal reason behind why hes going there. Iwould have to say that this idea is a great anddifferent way of approach. The editor usesdifferent techniques using many clips wherethe character walks along long dark alleyswhich cause tension then clips which are veryviolent and loud and then quickly switch it to aquiet atmosphere where the character is beingsentenced in court.The editors add a clip which the audience may

not understand at the start, this clip appears of a women while the main character is in thepolice van. The clip of the women could be likea flashback to the character. This could makethe audience think that this many be a wife or girl friend and thats why he may be going toprison, the editor keeps the audienceguessing.

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TITLES.The titles used in Offender are veryunique and different compared to whatI've see before in an opening scene.Usually in most films you just seenormal and formal writing and thats itfor the opening scene. In Offender thewriting starts out as formal and thenslowly some of the letters get longer.This is a great way of using titles. Thetitles aren't just in the same area everytime they appear. The titles are put indifferent locations and have a brightwhite colour to them so that they canstand out clearly and are easy to seeand be understood on the dark andgloomy background.

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SOUND.The music in the opening scene is the same soundtrack throughout it does not change to any other.It has a low beat or rhythm to it to cause tension at the start and then brings in a high pitch noise, I

think the low noise must be created by some kind of drum to get a good low tone and affect, thissound is creepy and could of be created using either an electrical guitar or computer software. Thiskind of sound gives of a lot of tension to the scene and convinces the audience something bad or creepy is about to happen. The sound advisors/technicians use the police siren noise on top of thesoundtrack so the audience know that he's been caught for his crime. After the main character causes the crime and has all the police officers around him shouting at him the soundtrack all of

sudden becomes louder and the shouting and screaming of the officers is almost blurred out behindthe soundtrack so you can only faintly hear them. They fade the soundtrack in and out through thisopening scene, they fade it out when you have people talking, for example the judge in court. Butas soon as they are done talking they work the camera work and the sound together to get a greatshot which causes tension, drama and thriller to what may happen. When the character is in the riotvan he has flashbacks of a women, know one knows who this women is but as his flash backsoccur more and more the high pitch sound gets louder and louder. This could indicate to theaudience she has a big part to play in the film and how maybe hes haunted by this women by thesound of the music being played in the background. As the titles and opening scene come to anend the soundtrack stops playing. This can represent the opening scene coming to an end.

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MISE-EN-SCENE.The mise-en-scene in the opening scene uses good use of location/scenery, using dark alleys and dark gloomy locations give aworried and thrilling theme or sense to the opening scene making theaudience aware that something bad is going to happen. Dark, gloomylocations usual represent evil or bad things in this film it could represent thidea of criminals and illegal things happening. The use of differentcharacter types and props also make this opening scene great, an exampleof this is the use of costumes for the police officers with the jackets sayingpolice on the back and the face guard and helmets some of the characterswear, a good prop that is used is the batons that the police officers use, theuse of blue flashing lights giving a good feel to the atmosphere andsomething bad is happening. The character also wears dark clothing thisfilm is taken at the time of the London riots which could mean hes a thug criminal. The use of the court scenery where's the character is in front of a judge really makes the film realistic. I like the use of the riot van/policeescort van being used as it brings realism to the opening scene. Thebruised eye gives a good thug/ criminal look to the character making himlike nasty and a violent person this can indicate the audience of what'sgoing to happen in the film before its even got past the opening scene.

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CONCLUSION. After watching the opening scene of Offender I liked the use of techniques used a think I will use some in my filming, such as Lighting and the effects of lighting on the scene The use of locations and the variation of locations The way they used there titles and had an unique way of

using them, using colour and writing to make it look moreinteresting.

The use of props is very important so I would like to bringthese ideas into my own filming.

The use of music and the tone and pitch of the soundtrack. I like the way the editing shows the present and when the

character is going to prison and then the past and why he

went to prison this way of editing is great and I would like touse this also.