•Production company comes up first while creepy music plays in the background setting an scary atmosphere

• Screen / music fades into the first scene of the film, music carries on playing, “SCREEN GEMS presents” (second production company)

• Establishing shot of house – is this an important location?

• Shot taken from a van (point of view) as a man drives down throwing newspapers outside houses

• Establishing shot carries on through neighbourhood showing all the houses, looks like an American neighbourhood

• More production companies• Eerie music keeps on playing in the background

• Jump cut to newspaper guy

• Close up on his address book, one address highlighted “cancelled”

• Music gets more intense during this moment, drums start playing louder highlighting importance of this house.

• Jump cuts from address list to the “cancelled house”, long shot, eerie music continues drawing our attention to this house.

• Title ‘The Stepfather’ next to a close-up of this character, suggesting this is the stepfather and he is an important character

• Drums in music keep playing, creating an intense build-up

• One of the main actors Dylan Walsh, jump cuts between scenes

• Close up on applying hair dye on hand• Scary piano music begins playing in the background

leading up to a climax?

• Another main actress Sela Ward, intensity in music builds up while the ‘Stepfather’ character showers

• One of the main actors

• Another main character, eerie music in the background while the main character is now out of the shower and shaving.

• Main character has now dyed his hair, shaved and changed his contact lenses from brown to blue.

• More actors names, character goes downstairs and the creepy music stops, long shot as he turns on a choir singing ‘Silent Night’

•‘Casting by..’•Followed by Costume Designer •Followed by Music Supervisor•Followed by editor

• In the background character is walking round what seems an empty house, silent night is playing in the background as he makes himself breakfast

• Set in the morning? At Christmas time?

•As Silent Night continues playing in the background the camera shows the dead bodies of what looks like a family around the house as the stepfather walks around drinking his tea. You can hear muffled screams and voices while drums begin to play making a scary atmosphere and a build up to a climax.

• Close up on objects used to supposedly murder the family in the opening, the stepfather now seems guilty. Scary music building in intensity

• Close up on his face as he sees flashbacks of the murder and hears muffled screams just before he leaves the house.

• Executive producers, last scene before opening finishes. Drums increase in tempo and volume as intensity builds. Close up to his shaving cut in his car as he drives away from the murder scene, suspicion builds as this scene ends.