Research on Film Genres

Horror

"Horror films are unsettling movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, disgust and horror from viewers. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres. Horrors also frequently overlap with the thriller genre."

I got this information from Wikipedia.

The first sentence, is an extreme version of how we would like our opening to effect people. So we will be taking some ideas from the genre of horror.

Drama Film

"A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, crime and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenomena."

This final information is also from Wikipedia.

After reading up on information about Drama Film, I have realised that some of these elements would be vital in our opening to make it emotional for the audience.

We would like to include a mixture of all of these genres in our opening to create the effect that we would like to achieve. 

Thriller

"Thriller is a genre of literature, film, video gaming and television that uses suspense, tension, and excitement as the main elements.[1] The primary subgenre is psychological thrillers."

I also found this information on Wikipedia.

Suspense, Tension and Excitement are all emotions we would like our audience to feel while watching our opening sequence.