Della and I have thought hard about whether we wanted to include speech in our opening two mintues, and have decided against it; we both feel it could ruin the atmosphere as there are a lot of short, sharp shot changes. Also we want to let the music set the scene and pace and we feel having conversations could slow the general pace of the film down, I feel that speech in the opening two minutes of a horror gives too much about the characters and plot away; hence losing the interest of our audience. Our main reason for not doing any speech however, was that for most of the opening both characters are alone, in fact, it's only really the date and walking home scenes where there is room for dialouge, and we feel it could look messy if we put it in. Also, out of all the film research I've done on horror openings (for videos and links, look back) there is very little or no speaking at all.
Having said this, we are thinking about using bits of diagetic sound over the music in certain scenes, for example the running away scene could have her caqtching her breath to add tension and maybe in the getting ready scene she could be humming along to the music; much like a typical girl getting ready for a date would.
The Opening To Saw 2 is a good example of this, unfortunately I could only find a clip of the first 3 minutes when all I needed was the first 1. I love the way the lightbulb sounds and grabs the attention of the viewer straight away; and also how the deep breaths add tension, which I definitely want to use in the running scene.
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