Preliminary Task

We decided to do our preliminary task with a twist of horror to it. We made the acting tense and the music fast paced to follow this theme.
  Our film follows character A seen running, then approaching a door, character B opening the door, then character A checking the room, then turning to character B and saying 'It's just us.'

My Movie Opening

We've been set the task for our coursework to come up with an original 2 minute opening sequence for a movie. This means we'll have to come up with an idea of what this film will be about, write a script, find locations and actors and then eventually shoot it. All before February.

      So far I've had several ideas of storylines for my movie opening. I've decided that I don't want to use teenagers in my piece, so I'm going to try and get my hands on some adult actors who may be interested in helping me out. Many thoughts have swirled about in my head,but none have yet fully caught my attention, some of the ideas include, loneliness, suicide, mental illness and thug life. But I'm not certain on any of these yet. Another idea that came to my mind was if I want it to be in english or not, I'm quite fascinated by language, so the thought of maybe doing it in french is quite appealing. 

I've also been thinking about possible locations to shoot in, I live in a fairly large village which could be of some use, but other intersting places I'd possibly like to film are the beach, the city, random fields, rivers or if I could find a decent lake that would be useful.

I think one of the biggest hurdles is that we have to use our own music, which as I cannot play an instrument I'm going to have to ask several friends for help on that front, unless I fancy a beautiful recorder score. 

I've started drafting out some company logos for the beginning credits, and I've come across one I quite like the looks of.

Time Warner Inc and NME

‘Time Warner’s takeover of British publisher IPC Media has given the N.M.E brand a new lease of life. Discuss.’

In 2001 Time Warner Inc took over the British company IPC Group Limited. IPC is the United Kingdom’s leading consumer magazine producer, IPC publishes over 100 different brand across the UK and one of these is the NME. NME was launched in 1952 and is believed to be one of the most respected music magazines in the world and helped to champion and publicise some of the greatest names in British rock history.

          

Since Time Warner’s take over of IPC and NME there have been many dramatic changes to the magazine, making it branch out into unknown territory and for it to evolve into something that the company had never seen before.

In 2006, NME finally spread its wings and hit America by storm, NME was already known in America because of its website, NME.COM which was launched in 1996, it was already America’s third most popular music site. This shows that even before Time Warner acquired NME it was big in America, but leading on from that, NME has transformed into a multimedia company. When it first began it was just a magazine, this then led on to becoming a website, radio show and TV channel. But with our new technological advances, NME needed someway to keep up with its modern rivals. So, with the help of Time Warner, NME has managed to go from not just the page but into a physical entity of clubs around the globe. The newest club to be set up is a permanent fixture in New York City in the Gramercy Park Hotel, a building which already has a lot of rock and roll history attached to it, which will host fortnightly events broadcasting the freshest talent on the new music scene.

Due to the company owning the NME brand being taken over by Times Warner it has led the magazine to take leaps of faith knowing that they have some security by being part of such a huge conglomeration. Also being part of this gives the magazine a much wider audience and database of knowledge meaning that it can widen its readership and popularity by advertising in other Time Warner publishing’s. This has helped NME to expand and break free of the restraints of just being with IPC Media who were not necessarily financially stable enough to allow NME to take risks that they might not recover from.

Furthering themselves again in keeping up with the newest technologies is the NME app. NME was the first music magazine to get an app in the iStore which was helped from its backing of global oligopoly, Time Warner Inc. With this new app, NME has been revived from a dying magazine that in hardback form wasn’t selling as well as it used to, into a new modern popular source for the latest music news from any available point. NME’s target market is able to access NME news in a variety of ways which makes NME one of the most easily accessible reliable music news sources. Readers are able to get their information from the internet, from the tv, from the radio, from the magazine or from an app, which can all be accessed from many of today’s Smartphones which means that NME has been given a new lease of life in that they are now able, with financial security and stability, to tread out into the unknown to keep up with our ever evolving technological world.