Planning for thriller opening

For the lesson of Wednesday the 14th we had a look at a couple of the finished videos that had been uploaded to our blogs and everyone seemed pleased with there pieces. We went on to talk about the main task of creating a thriller opening at looked at some more of last years AS student ones. I was able to see some interesting ideas and shot types from them.
the first video was of a teacher who sees ghostly writing on her board which asks for help. A couple things that worked well was the camera shots and angles. Two that stood out in my mind where one from under a big wheelie bin of her walking and anther where shes writing on the board and it match cuts to us being behind the solid wall looking at her which creates a super natural atmosphere.
Also the editing was good there was a match scene where the teacher is scared and the camera zooms in to her body and shows her rushing adrenaline pumped blood and also the editing of the writing coming yup on the board with no one writing it.
the second film was of a detective on a case a point that i remember liking was in the editing where the detective closes his eyes and imagines what happens and their are cuts form the reconstruction to the evidence bags in his room, i thought that worked well.
We then looked at a scene from what lies beneath and analysed how it create tension. We saw it did so through the slow pace of the woman walking towards the bath, The angle of the camera being over her shoulder as if stalking her and the editing of seeing the ghostly reflection in the bath then the delayed orchestral stab to let the image sink in.
For the last park of the lesson we had to plan for ours and as a group we came up with a few ideas. We all agreed however that our main aim was to make sure we use a variety of shot types and angle to create the atmosphere we desire on 'thrilling' the audience as opposed to just focusing on a fantastic content for the opening as we saw that the first as students video was simple but effective.