Change of plan...

In yesterday's lesson, our group had a discussion about whether or not we had enough footage to produce a decent film opening - following the criteria - and we eventually came to the conclusion that the footage we had taken and the content was not sufficient enough to produce a film that we would be happy with and that would fulfill the criteria.
Although we will be starting from scratch, all of the research we have done so far will still be relevant because we can take the essential elements of this research and apply them to the conventions of the genre we choose.
We will most likely be still doing a thriller film opening but we have also had some ideas about doing a spoof/comedy. Both have their benefits and faults; for example, a thriller would be easier to make in the sense of keeping it simple and just having good camera angles and shot composition, whereas a spoof/comedy could be fun to make and potentially interesting if we get it right, but it would be really easy for us to find it all hilarious in the moment, but then watching it back it may be really not funny at all.
We are going to research previous years A2 media films before deciding on anything, but I am leaning towards doing another thriller film opening.
We had a few vague ideas, such as - after looking at the opening of the film 'Donnie Darko' - filming something very obscure in order to intrigue the viewer.

For example, we discussed having footage of somebody sleeping and showing quick flashes of bad dreams they are having mixed with flashs of close-ups of their face flinching and then at the end it zooms out as they wake up and they're in an odd place, such as a field, a car park, etc.
These are just very early ideas and we will continue to brainstorm more ideas.