Meeting With Other Groups

Currently in the media center of my school, talking with people in a different group assigned with the same project to get feed back. My group was not sure whether or not we are going in the thriller direction or horror direction. Some suggestions we received were:

- watch many thriller films 

- take notes on what you like about each film and why you like it.

- understand the whole concept before trying to come up with intro idea

- a horror can be considered a thriller so it can be a blend of the two

Ideas we came up with:

-start with black screen, hear heart beat and pacing/running, lack of sight makes audience want to know what's going on and therefore want to continue watching the film

I'm not sure if we should start with action to create the suspense or begin with an introduction and hint at the conflict in the intro. Do we start with a black screen and a sound of a heart beat to immediatly get the audience hooked like in the intro to the movie scream or begin with an introduction and hint at the conflict but don't go into it.

We need to elaborate on our idea and come up with an entire story to better understand how to create our intro.