Sleepy Hollow: two minute opening analysis

• Logo of the presenters Mandalay, Scott Rudin, American Zoetrop production
• Tim Burton film 
• The close up of what seemed like blood drops but was actually wax melting from a candle sets the mood as it foreshadows that there may be possible deaths or blood shed later on in a different seen.
• Shows the last written testament and then shows us an older hand holding what looked like a younger hand which connotes that something important  or horrible perhaps is going to happen or that there is even a plan for something.
• By using pathetic fallacy ( thunder sounds) and appropriate music it sets the mood. 
• The use of the music was also very affective as they send us one way (scaring us, being unable to know what is going to happen next) but then another when it turns out being something that isn't scary. (when the music was building up but then died away as the horses galloped) 
• The music was building up making us feel afraid of what was going to happen but then the music slowly died away which left anxious wanting to know what is going to happen next. 
• The fact that they showed us the death of the man driving the horse and carriage from the point of view of the old man was very affected as it was as if we were a part of it and we had to wait to see what happened when the old man saw what happened.