The Godfather: Horse head scene breakown

The scene opens on an establishing long shot of the entire house in which  our subject lives. The camera dollys in, then is cut with several cross-faded pans as we get closer to the room from the outside.

Cross-fade to a long shot of the inside of the bedroom, then dolly in closer to a medium shot of the subject sleeping in the bed from bed-level, where all still seems normal.

Holds on a medium shot of the subject, slowly discovering the blood on the outside of his sheets. The suspense gathers with the rising music. 

As subject removes the sheets the camera pans to follow the hem, revealing more and more blood and finally the head of his prized horse. The subjects begins to panic while the shot holds on the horse and we can hear him screaming. cut to another long shot of the bed to punctuate the screams, and then one more a second later from farther away. Finally, the scene cross-fades to a long shot of the entire house, and we can still hear the screaming dubbed over top.