'Jeepers Creepers' Analysis: Chase-Scene

The scene opens with an extended two shot of the stereotypical teenagers as they are driving - this creates realism and helps to build tension, with the target audience expecting this to lead to something more dramatic and tense. We then cut to a long shot of a house in the woods which is conventional for the genre. The movement from the car makes us feel like we are viewing the house ourselves, as if we are there, and this creates more tension and suspense. 

The scene then cuts back and forth from the teenagers to the house, making it faster paced, creating a sense of danger and further entices the audience. The panning around the mysterious man as the trees block our view, make us feel like we are again in the car with them and makes us feel the sense of urgency and danger that the couple are feeling in that moment. The shaky camera shots as the truck comes up behind them again, shows a sense of danger and makes it more fast paced as we again cut back and forth from the truck to the couple in the car. 

During the cutting back and forth, there is non-diegetic sound of some orchestral music, mainly consisting of violins and a deep drum - sort of like the sound motif in 'Jaws'. This comes in and out of the scene at more of the tense moments to create a larger sense of urgency and danger for the audience. This type of music is conventional in a horror film. This music turns slightly adventurous yet still urgent as the scene cuts, again, quicken between the teenagers and the truck. The close-ups of the teenagers' faces throughout show their fear and their dread about what will happen next. This makes the audience feel the same way and encourages them to keep watching.