Ideas for the final piece

OCR has instructed me and my group to create the first 2 minutes to a film including titles. So before we could even start to research we had to make a decision on what genre our film will be, we chose to make a sci-fi/horror.
Now that we sorted out what genre our film will be we had to start to research and look at the opening 2 minutes of famous/credited horror and sci-fi films of the past and present to help us develop our ideas.

What I have picked up from this clip is that non-diagetic sound helps to build suspense and tension even if it is only the beginning of the film and the establishing shots used show how  secluded place the film is set in helping the film in regards to it's build up. A part of this that will definitely be taken forward into the final project is that the titles are overlaying shots, this will allow us to use more time to build it up instead of using titles on a black screen that will take up time and most definitely kill the mood.

- Nicholas Ajagbe