Analysis of the opening to a Horror film: Jeeper's Creeper's 2

The opening credits to the film starts off basic but keeping its leery Ora. The credits are shown in standard white text against a black background, with no music playing just total silence. Towards the audience this gives the 'expect the unexpected' feeling.

This being Jeeper's Creeper's 2, shows that this is part of a sequel. Which is similar to The Grudge, this could be a trend for Horror films. However they did not show clips or flashbacks from the first Jeeper's Creeper's, instead of this they used words showing dates to show the name of the place where the second film was situated and the day, month and year, as that later on during the film has a severely relevant reference to what is happening in the film. This writing is faded on and off the screen in slow motion, which keeps the audience engaged with the screen.

As soon as the film story starts the diagetic sound from the tractor suddenly starts getting louder and louder. Next there is an establishing tracking shot to show the view from across the desolate wheat fields, showing how out of place and lonesome the scene really is. After the scene has been set, more writing appears across the screen stating the day, month and the year once again. Next more diagetic sound starts but this time its the crows, which are suspiciously sat on one scare crow but not the other, this tells the audience things are going to start getting sour.

The young boys father noisily starts up his tractor and starts farming, but there is also an extreme close up of one particular part of the tractor. The normal everyday farming continues showing an establishing shot of the young boy, his brother and their father.

A long shot is then shown of the boy walking away into the dry wheat fields. The loud non-diagetic music starts as the dog barks as loud as he possibly could when he hears unusual rustling in the fields. The dog is used cleverly as animals are meant to have a sixth sense when something is not right. This not only indicates the boys family that something is wrong but it also tells the audience that something is not right but very very wrong.

A behind the shoulder shot is taken from behind the young boy in the feild with the dark mysterious bat posing as a scarecrow. This shot is engaging with the audience making the feel like they're intruding on this horrific event.

A slow tracking shot then shows the monster's face. The none diagetis sound gets louder and louder along with the dogs barking, as the establishing shot from the fathers point of veiw sets the scene of the boy being dragged through the wheat feilds. Then the next shot shockingly shows a veiw looking up to the sky watching the monster fly off with eyoung boy in his claws. The music then stops. This creates fear for the audience of what's going to happen next? A zooming on extreame close up is the the last shot shown of the fathers eyes before the plot is continued.