Concluding, all the opening scenes have some parts in common, such as all of them leave the audience with several questions, which then makes the audience watch the film until the end and find out answers to the questions.
I would not say that there were scenes that differed a lot from the other ones. However, the opening scene for "Jaws"
was a little bit different because we never got to see the face of the main character due to the fact it all of this was shot using a Point Of View (POV) camera angle. Other than that I don't think that all the opening scenes had a pretty similar structure.
Talking about films that I used as examples for the genres, I believe that the most successful opening scene that I have done was an opening scene of the Western film called "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly". It is due to the fact that there was used variety of camera angles to show who is who. It also had a very nice non-diegetic soundtrack that highlighted the genre of the film. The mise-en-scene in this opening I have personally found amazing. All the props and the costumes made it perfectly clear that the film is western and through a mise-en-scene, we could understand who is who (in terms of characters).
The least successful opening scene in my opinion was an opening of "Jaws" because to looked very similar to a thriller because it didn't really have violent or very scary scenes. I believe that the only thing that saved this opening scene was the non-diegetic soundtrack. It also to do with the fact that it differs from the other opening scenes. With a style especially, because we can not see how the main villain looks like.
However, on the other side, it adds a little bit of mystery which, in my opinion, would be good for the thriller opening scene, not for the horror.
I would add some unexpectancy in this opening so that the audience member would understand that it is a horror movie, not a thriller or anything to do with it.
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