Our second film idea

After talking more about our new film opening, we have decided that it might be effective to make an opening similar to that of Donnie Darko where a character wakes up in the middle of a strange random place for an unclear reason. By doing this we hope it haves an effective on the audience for them to want to carry on watching the film and find out what happens next.

We have thought that we could show a character sleeping, and then have lots of different shots put together in a fast paced edit to make it look like a dream or flashback. We will then show the character waking up with confusion and then as we move the camera away it will show their strange surroundings.

Me and Molly were at Forty Hall last week for some photography work and as we were walking through the woods we thought that it would be a really good place to film our opening as it is a strange place for someone to wake up in, it is nice and quiet so we would not be disturbed while filming and it is a really pretty place which would look nice in our film.

We are still working on this idea and we are still thinking about why our character would be waking up in that situation. One idea that we have spoken about already could be that our character is a troubled teenager who is into drugs and prostitution, so the flashbacks or dream would be of them the night before taking drugs and showing them at a night out, and then maybe getting out of a clients car. The drugs would explain why our character ended up in their strange sleeping place and in the woods and why they do not remember.

I really like this film idea but we are going to talk about it a lot more and plan it really well so that we know exactly what we are doing when we go out to film so that we do not make the same mistakes as our last opening.

Our original film beginning

This is the first draft of our film opening that we decided to scrap.
You can see from this draft that we have been playing around with imovie with different effects to try to edit our film.
After completing this first draft we decided we really did not like it.
Some of the shots we liked and thought could be quite effective, but others were just too long and boring.

The first shot where Sarah's dad opens the door to the dark room was quite effective because when he turns on the light it takes a while to focus completely which could be quite creepy as it takes the viewer a while to realise where he actually is.

The next shot from inside the dark room i really did not like. I don't think we focused enough on our board of photos that we made as we only really look at one. The pan that is used is not as effective as we thought as it is quite unsteady. It is also really hard to see what is going on in this scene when Sarah's dad is developing the photo's. This shot is far too long and boring and to make it better we needed to add in different angle shots of what he was doing to make it more interesting and understandable, which we did not realise at the time. As we had to edit this scene to make it lighter so you could see what was happening, the light went quite grainy which I don't think looks very professional or effective.

The next scene of the house and Sarah's dad walking into the shot had some good points and some bad points. I like the way that he just strolls into the shot and looks at the house as he walks past as I think it is quite eery. I do not like the effect we put on it however as it does not look realistic. I also again think that this shot is too long and we should have filmed it from different angles to cut it up.

The shot of Charlotte walking out of the house I thought was quite good because we placed the camera in a position so you could see Charlotte and her stalker at the same time which made it quite effective. The continuity in this shot however is not very good as when Charlotte walks out of the house she walks towards the camera and then turns which does not look realistic and we did not pick up on at the time.
For this shot we did film it from different angles to make sure it wasn't too long which was a good idea and I do think that part is quite effective.

The next part of Charlotte being followed down the allyway again is too long and boring and we found it really hard to try and match the two shots from the different points of view to make it look continuous which again makes it look unprofessional. It also changes effects each time the camera moves positon which makes it look wrong and uneffective.

The last shot where Sarah's dad is back in the darkroom is again too dark so we can not see what is going on and we positioned the camera in a bad place which meant that Sarah's dad was infront of the camera for most of the shot so we could not see what he was doing anyway. The photo's that we took of ourselves to use as our credits were far too dark so you cannot even see what the photo's are meant to be when we were filming it. The light we used in this scene was a phone light but it kept going off every few seconds. At the time that we were filming this we thought that it may looks quite creepy and effective but now that we have put it together is does not looke effective it just again looks unprofessional.

I think we have definatly made the right decision to re make our film as I hope we can do better than our first draft. We have gained experience and knowledge from our first go and now we know that we cannot make our shots too long and we need to have many different camera angles to add in to make it interesting and get the effect we are aiming for.

Discussions about our film

In todays lesson we spoke to Miss Foster about our film, showed her where we were up to and ask for her opinion.
As we were speaking about our film she could see that we clearly were not very happy with how our film has turned out so far as we kept making comments on how the lighting was not quite right and our shots were too long or confusing. As we were talking we discussed the option that maybe we could reshoot another film that was better and not as complicated with the story line. As a group we decided that maybe we did rush into our first film too quickly and it would be wise to think about starting again with our storyboard and thinking about it all more carefully. We've decided to look at all the possible genres we can do, look at films that fit into that genre, and come up with a rough idea for each one and then decide which idea is best and will work most succesfully. We started to do this in todays lesson and came up with some rough genres such as "supernatural" for example, Paranormal Activity and Signs, "psychological" such as Donnie Darko and The Sixth Sense and "spoofs" such as Scary Movie.
We have not made anymore progress yet but we are going to carry on working on our ideas and hopefully come up with a better, more structured idea than our first. We realise that by comitting to making a whole new film, we will have to work really hard to get our blogs back up to date and to keep in the time frame. We are hoping to come up with an effective story that we can easily shoot over just a couple of days in the Christmas holidays which are coming up in about 2 weeks.

Paranormal Activity

Over the weekend I went to the cinema to see Paranormal activity.
Although it was not as scary as I was expecting I thought it was a really good film and the way they filmed it was really effective.
The whole film is filmed on a handheld home camera by the couple in the film.
The woman, Katie, has been followed to 3 different houses by some kind of ghost or demon, she believes, that watches her at night, makes noises in the house, whispers her name and breathes on her.
As an attempt to try to catch any of this activity on camera and get to the bottom of it, her husbad, Micha, sets up the home camera on a tripod in their bedroom with a microphone. The camera is placed so that you can see the bedroom and the door, and the corridor and stairs.
Each night different strange things happen that sometimes wake up, and sometimes don't wake up the couple. One night their bedroom door opens and closes, another night they hear footsteps coming up the stairs and into the bedroom, another night they hear a loud thud from downstairs in their front room.
As the film goes on, whenever it comes to the night scenes the whole cinema made groaning noises and sunk into their seats as they knew something unexpected and scary was about to happen, which I think was a really good effect to have on the audience.
The part of the film which I believe was most succesful and effective was the end. The woman becomes possessed by the demon and you see her get out of bed and go downstairs. As you cannot see downstairs you do not know what is going on and then siddenly you hear a desprate, terrified scream of Katie so Micha jumps out of bed and runs downstairs after her. After some kind of struggle everything goes quiet. You hear footsteps coming up the strairs towards the camera again and then it all goes quiet. The silence stays for a couple of minutes which had a huge impact on the audience because they were in suspence and it was left to our imagination of what was happening and what had happened downstairs. Suddenly the silence breaks when the possesed Katie throws a dead Micha at the camera.
The end was so effective and had everyone in the cinema screaming. The element of silence was what was so scary because you did know what was coming next. Also the fact that you did not see the demon or whatever was possessing her for the whole film had a huge impact as it was left to the audiences imagination of what it was.

I hope that the fact you cannot see our stalkers face in our film, has a similar scary or creepy impact on our audience.

Editing

We've put our raw footage onto our mac at school and have started to edit.
After first watching our filming we realised that the lighting in the dark room is very dark and quite hard to see what is exactly going on. We decided to try and lighten the scenes and put a red tint over the shots to make it look lighter but still have an eery feel with the red lights. I think that this was really effective so we have written down everything that we have done to the clips so we can make it consistant throughout our film. We also decided that our outside scenes were very bright and did not really add to our scary theme. We also realised that the clouds from the outside scenes are not consistent because when each shot changes, so does the clouds. We edited this, again using imovie by making the scenes greyer and the sky white so you cannot see the changing clouds and the scenes have a more gloomy eery feel. We have only just started editing so we only have the first few seconds edited together but so far I am really enjoying and can't wait to continue making our film come together.

Se7en

In our lesson on friday morning we watched the film Se7en. This was because Miss Foster had previously shown us the opening credits to get us thinking about our own opening credits in our film, but because we all thought it was so good and wanted to know more about the film she decided to let us the whole thing as a class.

The opening credits were really effective because you don't understand what it is or what is happening until you watch the rest of the film so it makes the veiwer interested and want to carry on watching.


The rest of the film is about a detective, Morgan Freeman, who is about to retire and has 7 days to teach the new detective, Brad Pitt, how to do his job.
Within those 7 days a serial killer starts his work by killing people according to the 7 deadly sins, gluttony, greed, sloth, lust, pride, envy and rath.
You saw throughout the film how he killed these people and at the end find out his reasonings behind them.
I thought it was a really good film and really enjoyed it. Although many people in the class afterwards were saying that they thought it was a poor ending, I disagree and think it was really powerful. The fact that the audience are left to just imagine what it looks like inside the box I thought was really effective and the way that you can really empathise with Brad Pitt at the end and understand his anger and upset.
There were many things in the film which were used to add to the atmosphere and help you understand the characters. The lighting for example was low key and for almost the whole film it was very heavy rain which made the film very dark and gloomy to add to the mood and effect of the film.
There was also a part in the end when the two detectives are driving the killer to the destination he has told them and there is a conversation between all three men. This is a vital part of the film as the killer tells them his reasons behind all the killings and how he believes he was chosen by God to do this and how he admires the two detectives for their work. As this conversation is happening the camerawork is very clever to show the audience the different characters. Whenever the killer is talking, he is shown through the wire bars as if to show he is bad and should be away from people. When Brad Pitt is talking he is sometimes also shown through the bars to show he is just as bad as the killer in his attitudes, but when Morgan Freeman talks he is shown normally without the bars to show he is good.

There was also a part in the film where the detectives find the killers flat and one of his rooms is a dark room with lots of photos of his victims hung up. This looked like a really effective shot with a red tint so I think this has once again made our group think about maybe putting a red tint over our own dark room scene when editing using imovie.

Second day of filming

On Thursday after school we got permission to film in the old dark room. We went to set up the dark room by pinning up photos of the stalkers victims with notes written about them including their name, age and any other information such as their hair and eye colour.
Sarah's dad then arrived at school so we started to film.
Our first shot was with all of the lights off and Sarah's dad opening the door of the dark room and switching on the red lights. We positioned the camera in such a way that you could see the door and the red light bulb which was outside the door which turned on when he switched on the lights inside. I think this was an effective shot as you could just see his shadow in the doorway and the door made a creeking noise which will add to the atmosphere of our film.
For our next shot we did the same thing but we moved our camera to inside the dark room so we had it from a different perspective.
We then put the camera to one side of the room and had Sarah's dad standing by the developing baths with his back to the camera. The shot started off by focussing on one of his past victims photos which was pinned to the walls and then when Sarah's dad dropped something on the floor it made a loud crash and the camera made a quick pan around to him which I think added tension. He then picked up the item that he dropped, turned back to the developing bath and dropped a photo of Charlotte in there as if to develop it. He then took it out of the bath and clipped it up to the line which already had photos of me and Molly clipped up.
Finally we filmed the last bit for the dark room which was for the very end of our clip. This was when Sarah's dad replaced the original photo of Charlotte for one of her gagged and tied to a chair, which showed he had caught her. He then pinned up a photo of Sarah next to that to indicate that she is his next victim.
As Sarah's dad walks away from the line the camera zooms in and pans across all of our group's photos which we had attached our names to, which will be our credits. As the light in the dark room was very dim we held a phone light up to the photos from behind the camera to make it a bit lighter but still have quite a scary effect.
I really enjoyed filming this part and hope it turns out good when we come to edit. The only problem with the dark room was that is a very small room with lots of equipment so it was hard to have all of the group in there at the same time giving directions when we were actually filming because we had to be in certain positions so that you could not see our shadows.

Stalker/obessive films I have watched

Over the last few weeks I have tried to watch some films to do with stalking and obsessive people to help with our film when we are editing.

First I watched "Obessed" With Beyonce Knowles and Idris Elba.

This was about a woman who got a tempory placement at a job. She ended up becoming obsessed with her boss at that placement and tried everything she could to stay at the job and got a permenant place there. She was convinced in her head that she had a relationship with this boss and always tried to be with him and would do anything for him. As the film goes on her obsession becomes worse and she becomes jealous of her boss's wife (Beyonce).
There are interesting camera shots in this film such as when the woman is watching the boss's house which we included into our filming when Sarah's dad was watching Charlotte leave her house. I thought it was quite a good film and think it has helped me to think of some ideas to put into our editing now.


The next film I watched was "The Watcher" with Keanu Reeves.

This film is about a serial killer who watches or stalks girls for weeks until he knows everything about their routine such as when they wake up when they leave the house when they eat when they sleep and most importantly when they are alone. Then he finds them and kills them by slitting their throat with a piano wire. He starts to play a game with a certain police officer by sending a photo of his next victim to him in the morning and says if the police officer does not find the victim by 9pm the same day, he will kill them.
I thought it was a really good film, even though it had quite a disapointing poor ending and think it will really help with our ideas.
There was a part in the film where you saw him developing photos of his victims in a dark room. In our film we are still not sure whether to put a red tint over our dark room scene or not. In The Watcher they have a red tint and I think it looks really effective so I will show my group and see if they agree.
Here is the trailer for The Watcher and you can see the effective dark room scenes in it breifly



Finally, the last film I watched on this subject was "Single White Female"

This film is about a woman, Ellie, who breaks up with her fiance and is so left to live alone. She puts an ad in the local newspaper asking for a female room mate. The woman, Headra, who she eventually chooses to move in with her starts to act strange around Ellie and becomes obsessed with her and her life. She wants Ellie for herself and does not want her to get back with her fiance or to ever leave her. She cuts and dyes her hair so it is identical to Ellies and starts wearing her clothes. She sleeps with her boyfriend and pretty much steals her identity. When Ellie finally realises that she needs to get away from Headra, she does not let her leave and tries to kill her.
I thought it was a really good film and would recommend it and I also think it had interesting camera angles when she was watching Ellie and when Ellie was trying to hide from her in their apartment which we could try and use in our film when we edit.

First day of filming

Over the half term we had our first day of filming and we got all that we needed done which we were all very pleased about. We shot the middle part of our film opening which was at a house down Sarah's road. In our film we used Charlotte to act as our victim as we knew she would be reliable as she is part of our group and we also used Sarah's dad as the stalker as we again knew he would be reliable and it was convenient as we were shooting down Sarah's road.

We ended up filming a lot more than we needed for each shot as we thought it would be a better idea to have more than less. As Charlotte was acting, it was me, Sarah and Molly behind the camera who filmed, made sure the shot looked right and directed the scenes as this way every group member had a fair role in the making of the film and we all had our say.

We started off by filming an establishing shot of the house which was a wide shot from the other side of the road and showed Sarah's dad walking into the scene and placing himself down the alley at the side of the house where he could see Charlotte but she couldn't see him.

The next shot was from right outside the house when we showed Charlotte coming out from the front door and walking towards the second alley and then Sarah's dad walking across the camera after her. We then filmed this same part but from a different angle. We placed the camera upstairs and filmed out of the window to give a different perspective. This also gives the feeling that Charlotte is vulnerable as is it from a high angle.


We then filmed a shot of inside the house and Charlotte walking out to give another view.

Next we filmed the part where Sarah's dad follwed Charlotte down the alley. At one point we showed Charlotte turning around and realising there is someone behind her and Sarah's dad putting his head down so she cannot see his face. After they walked a little but further Sarah's dad then put his hand out as if to grab Charlotte from behind. For this part we filmed it in two different ways. First we filmed a handheld point of view shot without the tripod and then we used the tripod again to film Charlotte walking towards the camera with Sarah's dad close behind her.


We managed to film everything that we needed to this day and we all really enjoyed it and can't wait to film some more when we get back to school so we can use the dark room. We learnt however that filming does take some time and you have to be patient with setting up the shots and be aware of your surroundings so no people or cars cut through your shots.

Stalker research for our film - Skoda car advert

I saw this advert and thought it would be good for our research. The camera shots used in it are point of view and close ups of the people in the car who could be seen as the "victims". We could use these types of shots in our own film. I also liked the idea that in this you cannot see who or what is following and watching them, you can only hear noises which leaves it to the viewers imagination to who it is and what they look like. I think we should use this in our own film and not show the stalkers face so the viewer can make up their own mind on what he looks like.
Although this advert is not a scary one we want to make our film more mysterious and edgey.

Ideas for our 2 minute film and practising with the equipment

Our group finally decided on an idea for our 2 minute film that we all agreed on. We expanded on our stalker idea and decided we could use the dark room in school used for photography lessons to show how obsessed the stalker is by showing him developing photographs of all his victims.

Our opening shot is going to be of the victim walking through a park with a friend and then make an effect using imovie that looks like the stalker is taking photos of her as he watches.
Then we will show the stalker in the old dark room at school developing the photos he has just taken. We will also use certain camera shots such as a pan to show the stalkers many photos of previous victims he has stuck around the room.
Our next shot will be at Sarah's house where we will show the victim leaving the house and walking down an alleyway. We are going to use a point of view shot of the stalker as he follows closely behind her. He will then put out his hand as if to grab his victim but before he touches her the screen will go black and you will hear a muffled scream as we think that if we show the victim being grabbed we wont be able to make the reactions look realistic and if we show the screen going black it leaves it to the viewers imagination.
Our final shot will be once again be in the dark room where the stalker will replace the previous photo of his victim for a photo of the victim dead.
We are also hoping to include our credits in the dark room scene by having photos of our group up to show we were once his victims with our names underneath.



In our last lesson before half term each group was given all the equipment we needed to shoot our film over the next 3 weeks. We were then given the oppertunity to practise using the camera and tripod. Our group went into the playground and started practising a pan show and zoom which we want to include in the first scene of our film. We were also getting used to different types of lighting as we had to place the camera in certain positions to be able to see the characters clearly.
We also discovered the old dark room that nobody uses anymore which we thought would be really good to use in our film as it is only small, really old and really creepy which would add to our atmosphere we want in our film. It also looks like it could be a room in his house or possibly a garage he has converted into a dark room to develop photos of his victims.

We tried out different ligthing in this room too but thought the best way to film it would be with the night mode on because you can see everything clearly and it still gives a scary atmosphere.
We then went back to the media room and uploaded what we had filmed onto the Mac. We tried out our idea of the stalker taking photos by editing it on imovie and it turned out really well.
Were now really excited to start filming and look forward to start editing everything!

Audience Response to our Preliminary exercise

In our lesson on Friday, as a class we all watched eachothers Prelim exercises and gave our responses to them.

The feedback that we gained from the class was that there wasn't much continuity as we missed out a shot because we should of filmed Charlotte sitting down on the chair after she entered the room. As we were filming this we did realise and tried to fix it by putting an extra shot of Sarah's suprised face in but we really needed the shot of Charlotte sitting down to make it look more realistic and keep the continuity.

This feedback from the audience response has helped us because it has taught us to be more careful about our filming and make sure we have every shot we need before sitting down to edit. It means we will make sure our storyboard is perfect and includes every shot we need before we start filming for anything else, especially our 2 minute film opening coursework task.

Our film research

Our group has been thinking of some ideas for our 2 minute film opening and have come up with something which we are looking to further research.

We thought that we could do a stalker type film where we could have point of view shots from someone watching a girl as she gets ready to leave the house and follow them down the road.

We have decided to research other stalker films that we know about such as Prom Night, The Watcher and Scream and see if we can get any more ideas from them and progress with our film opening.

Jaws Shot By Shot - Part 1

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The Jaws shot by shot was a lot more indepth and detailed compared to my analysis of James Bond.
The Jaws one starts out by looking at other films that have similar parts in it which I did not do in my analysis. This was good because it meant that they could then compare certain bits of Jaws to other films and say how effective that was.
The Jaws analysis also included the credits saying who was in the film and some background research about the film like on slide 4 and 5 that gave statistics and facts about how well the film did in the box office and the budget the film had. This was good because it gave the veiwer some background knowledge of it before they started their main anaysis incase the veiwer had not seen the film before.
Next time I analyse a film I will take tips from this slideshow to improve mine and consider writing about the credits, present screen shots to make it easier for the veiwer to follow and to write more indepth and expand my points. I also liked the way that the Jaws analysis looked at symbolism and the reason for why things happened like they did.

Completed preliminary exercise

This is our final preliminary exercise after we edited it. From this we learnt the importance of the 180° rule, how to shoot various camera angles and how to direct actors in a short film.

Our script:
Charlotte: (Walks past door of room outside and cannot be seen, reappears in the middle of the door from below looks at Sarah angrily through window of door)
Sarah: (Looks shocked/scared as of seeing Charlotte)
Charlotte: (Storms into room and sits down opposite Sarah) Wanna be startin' somethin'?
Sarah: You've got to be startin' somethin'!
Charlotte: Wanna be startin' somethin'?
Sarah: You've got to be startin' somethin'!
Charlotte: Your too high to get over..?
Sarah: Yeah, yeah..
Charlotte: Your too low to get under..?
Sarah: Yeah, yeah..
Charlotte: Your stuck in the middle..?
Sarah: And the pain is thunda'!

And this is one slide from our original storyboard which we used to help film and edit our preliminary task. Once we started fliming we made minor changes to our storyboard as we came up with better ideas but this was one that we stuck to.

Our preliminary task

In last Wednesday's lesson we discussed the preliminary task that we had to complete and within our groups made a storyboard to fit our own. The preliminary task is a simple 30 second film that must include two actors having a conversation. One must walk through a door and sit at a table where the other actor is already sitting and exchange a few lines of dialogue. The main focus of the preliminary task is to show that we understand the 180° rule. We watched past years preliminary tasks and then our group decided to use song lyrics rather than a made up conversation as we thought this would be easier. Sarah and Charlotte were the two actors in our task and decided on the song "Got to be starting something" by Michael Jackson. Myself and Molly were directing and filming the task and so thought about the camera shots we wanted to use.

In Friday's lesson we were the first group to shoot our preliminary task. As we started shooting we started to make changes to our original story board as we had newer better ideas and we ended up with 5 different shots all using the 180° rule. Overall it took 17 takes to get them perfect but we ended up with one two shot, two over the shoulder shots from different angles, a long shot of Charlotte walking through the door and one close up shot of Sarahs face. The filming of our task took longer than I thought and I did not think we would have had to do so many takes but I enjoyed the lesson and look forward to editing our task and putting it all together.

Full shot analysis of Casino Royale opening

The establishing shot in this scene is a wide, low angle shot. It gives you an idea of the setting that the scene is in and the low angle emphasises the size of the building and also adds to the mysterious atmosphere.

The next shot is a low angle close up of the first character and this allows you to see his nervous expression clearly and as it is from a low angle it makes you feel as if he is important and you're looking up to him.

The wide long shot in the next part of the scene pans along and follows the character from behind as he walks down the corridor. This is used to again show the eery atmosphere as you can see the character is alone in the corridor and perhaps walking into some harm.

The next shot is a low angle shot of the office the character is walking in to. The fact that the camera is at a low angle makes the viewer feel as if they should not be in that room and as if they are spying on the character.

There is a close up reaction shot next, which shows the viewer clearly the characters reaction to hearing an unknown voice in his office and the panic in his eyes.

For the next few seconds there is a shot, reverse, shot part where the camera switches between two characters as they talk to eachother. A medium long shot is used in this part which gives the viewer an idea of how far apart the characters are standing from eachother, to show they are not comfortable with talking to eachother.

The next shot is of a cricket game and a wide shot is used here to show the large amount of people there are and the whole action of the game. A shot, reverse, shot is also used in this part as it shows that one man has spotted another and keeps looking back at him to watch if he moves.

The fighting scene uses a mix between medium, long and close up shots. It uses a two shot so that both characters are in the shot at the same time. By using the long shot the viewer can see all the moves they are using to fight and then switching to a medium or close up shows the reaction and feeling on their faces. The fighting scene also has one shot from an aerial view which shows the viewer the two characters smashing through the toilet cubicles and you can still see the action from the fight.

Casino Royale film opening

The beginning of this film is shown before the opening credits to give you a background story to the rest of the film and explains the important history of James Bond and how he gained his 007 status. To gain this status he needed to kill two people.

The scene at the beginning shows Bond's lead up to his second kill and then uses flash backs to show his first killing. The whole of this beginning scene is in black and white to show that it is in the past and then everything from after the opening credits is in colour to show it is the present day.

The location is set straight away by the bit of text in the corner of the screen telling you where they are. There is no speech in the flash backs where James Bond is killing his first person, just background music which builds suspence with the viewer as they watch what the know is about to come.

At the very beginning of the scene the viewer can tell it is an eery atmosphere as when the man steps out of the car he looks around him before proceeding into the building. The first person you hear talk in the film is the main character James Bond and as he has the conversation in the office the camera work makes it look very shady and mysterious as Bond emerges from the shadows and the whole office is very dark, which adds to the tense atmosphere.

Genre research

In Fridays lesson we were discussing what genre we would, as a class, like to make our 2 minute film opening. Most of the class were thinking of a horror/thriller as we thought this would be a fun, more straight forward genre which you can do a lot with. Other people were thinking of doing a comedy which I think would be the hardest genre to do as we would have to put a lot more thought and careful planning into it and it may end up not being funny at all.
I would like to do a thriller movie opening as I think we can create a lot of suspense and it would be a fun, interesting genre to explore. When i researched this genre this is what i found from the website http://www.filmsite.org/thrillerfilms.html:

"Thriller and Suspense Films are types of films known to promote intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-wracking tension. Thriller and suspense films are virtually synonymous and interchangeable categorizations, with similar characteristics and features.
If the genre is to be defined strictly, a genuine thriller is a film that rentlessly pursues a single-minded goal - to provide thrills and keep the audience cliff-hanging at the 'edge of their seats' as the plot builds towards a climax. The tension usually arises when the main character(s) is placed in a menacing situation or mystery, or an escape or dangerous mission from which escape seems impossible. Life itself is threatened, usually because the principal character is unsuspecting or unknowingly involved in a dangerous or potentially deadly situation. Plots of thrillers involve characters which come into conflict with each other or with outside forces - the menace is sometimes abstract or shadowy."

Examples of some thriller films are:
Pulp Fiction, The Shining, Phone Booth, Psycho and Memento.