Film Synopsis

The Story

The story so far with some adjustments...

The CIA have a top secret underwater base in the Arctic Ocean to spy on the Russians after recent military activity. The oil rig operators have no idea about the secret base under the platform. Mike Smith is a father and a husband, but is suspected of being an undercover Russian sent to gather information about the CIA's secret base. The CIA kidnap Mike and torture him to extract information about his suspected identity. The CIA decide he is too much of a threat to keep alive so they kill him, and blow up their secret base and the oil rig as a cover for his death. They tell his wife, Julie Smith and her young son. Julie can see images on the news of the burning oil rig and realises her husband is dead. The young boy grows up and joins the army - like his dad, and goes through and gets out 15 years later. He decides that he wants to find out more about his fathers death when he was younger, and uses his contacts in the army to get his more in-depth file. He finds out that his dads body was never found and that he dissapeared a week before the explosion.  intrigued by this discovery he digs deeper, and finds about the CIA base, and he travels to america to find the truth. Meanwhile his digs into secret files doesn't go un-noticed and the CIA decide to silence him before he finds out too much.

Film Pitch "No. 6"

So it starts with a wide shot of a street of houses, they all look the same, so it gives the look of a boring neighbourhood where nothing interesting happens. you can hear two people speaking, a woman and a man at a parting moment, she says "will you be ok?" he says "dont worry i will be back before you know it, i love you" over the top as the camera moves towards no.6. you can see the street name, and the house is at the end. there is a brief shot of the house number and you go through the window to see a woman in the lounge crying, there is footage of a burning oil rig on the tv which is on mute, and she is sitting on the sofa with a phone in her hand, and you can hear an answerphone of the mans voice you heard earlier.

a boy with a toy in his hand peeks round the door, and you zoom into his eyes and then it ends in a white flash, which in the rest of the film would cut to 20 yrs later and he is an adult.

•The story is based around an oil rig explosion, which kills ‘mike’ who is the father of the main character will. This disaster leaves will fatherless and he grows up wanting to find who caused his fathers death. After research he finds that it was actually a terrorist attack that caused the explosion and he is out to seek revenge…

idea?

have a radio playing as a woman is in the kitchin (gender stereotype) hear on radio that there are two rapists/murderers? one has been caught but one still on the loose?

another idea, radio playing, business owner hears on radio that there are terrorists blowing up buildings but making it look like an accident. newspaper on table saying 'investigators not clear on cause of explosion' picture like  <- this on front cover.

he can have a back board with pictures of his company?
did a deal with dodgey people? want payback?



ANOTHER IDEA

have a guy getting ready to go to work on an oil rig?
hears radio saying there has been an uncovered plot to blow up oil rigs? family scared?

go to norwich airport, see helicopter fly over? waxam beach see some fly over?
family leaving, see paper on table with front page with plot to destroy on front?


ok same theme but maybe START with seeing a woman with the tv on, footage from oil rig burning, she is crying with a phone in her hands? have over the top a answerphone message? want to know what happens?

opening thoughts

just watched 127 hours... awesome film, anyway opening was a sped up view of a underground station, liverpool street station and just crowds just all sped up, and i really liked that idea, because the screen was split into 3, and there was the main characters life going on, and then it was swapping between the underground, the station and crowds while his life was going on, im not sure how we could do that but it would certainly be cool...

timewarners takeover of british publisher IPC media has given the NME brand a new lease of life. Discuss.

timewarner is an american company and has a huge empire, owning things like disney.  timewater can extend NME to america therfor increwasing profits because the audience has widened hugely from the introduction to the states. NME started as a small british music magazine but has expanded in popularity massivly. advancing tecnology has put NME magazinesa under strain because IPC Media are not selling as many magazines because people are going online to read the magazines more.

the joining of timewarner with IPc media can synergise magazines so amewrican magazines and british magazines can extend to different countries, and broaden the market, therefor making much more money. also timewarmer can advertise films that timewarner have created, therefore increasing profits because a new audience is being advertised too.

NME is hugely popular in the states already, with 2 clubs (NME NYC and NME LA), a radio station that provides 24 hour news coverage and music, and also NME.com, which is americas third most popular website. NME is also having a complete makeover, covering more indepth stories and having a new layout for their website. 

with NME's huge empire into europe and britain, timewarner is making a massive investment into the synergy of ipc media and timewarner. timewarner now has a world wide audicence, and big influence in society.  most of NME's audience is young people, age ranging from 15-34.

NME Stats

• Male: 74%
•  Female: 26% 
• Median age: 23 
• Student: 42% 
• ABC1: 68% 
• Circulation: 33,875 
• Readership: 325,000

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NME Notes

The paper's first issue was published on 7 March 1952 after the Musical Express and Accordion Weekly was bought by London music promoter Maurice Kin, and relaunched as the New Musical Express. It was initially published in a non-glossy tabloid format on standard newsprint. On 14 November 1952, taking its cue from the U.S. magazine Billboard, it created the first UK Singles Chart.

1960s-  NME sales were healthy with the paper selling as many as 200,000 issues per week, making it one of the UK's biggest sellers.

1970s- By the early 1970s NME had lost ground to the Melody Maker as its coverage of music had failed to keep pace with the development of rock music, particularly during the early years of psychedelia and progressive rock. In early 1972 the paper found itself on the verge of closure by its owners IPC (who had bought the paper from Kinn in 1963). According to Nick Kent (soon to play a prominent part in the paper's revival):
After sales had plummeted to 60,000 and a review of guitar instrumentalist Duanne Eddy had been printed which began with the immortal words 'On this, his 35th album, we find Duane in as good as voice as ever,' the NME had been told to rethink its policies or die on the vine.

1980s- Some commented at this time that the NME had become less intellectual in its writing style and less inventive musically. Initially, NME writers themselves were ill at ease with the new regime, with most signing a letter of no confidence in Alan Lewis shortly after he took over. However, this new direction for the NME proved to be a commercial success and the paper brought in new writers such as Andrew Collins, Stuart Maconie, Mary Anne Hobbs and Steve Lamcq to give it a stronger identity and sense of direction.

1990s-Although the period from 1991 to 1993 was dominated by American bands like Nirvana, British bands were not ignored.In April 1994 Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was found dead, a story which affected not only his fans and readers of the NME, but would see a massive change in British music. Grunge was about to be replaced by Britpop,a new form of music influenced by British music of the 1960s and British culture. The phrase was coined by NME after the band Blur released their album Parklife in the same month of Cobain's death. Britpop began to fill the musical and cultural void left after Cobain's death, and Blur's success, along with the rise of a new group from Manchester called Oasis saw Britpop explode for the rest of 1994.

20000s- From the issue of 21 March 1998 onwards, the paper has no longer been printed on newsIn October 2006 NME launched an Irish version of the magazine called NME Ireland. This coincided with the launch of Club NME in Dublin. Dublin-based band Humanzi were the first to appear on the cover of NME Ireland. Poor sales in the Republic of Ireland resulted from competition from market leader Hot Press and free music magazines Analogue Magazine, Mongrel Magazine and State Magazine. This resulted in the magazine's demise in November 2006.print, and more recently it has shifted to tabloid size: it has full, glossy, colour covers.

What does the NME website offer its audience?
It offers music facts, gossip, the latest information on current bands, reviews etc. It is an online aswell as material magazine, tv station and mobile news report, hence it being 'First for music news'. You are more than likely to find everything you want to be informed about, music wise, with this company.

How does the NME website address its audience?
It address it's audience through it's style of design e.g. bright colours and large, bold italics, animation. Catches most peoples attention through this, but is mainly aimed at youths who take an interest in music e.g. attend concerts or take part in musical activities. The access to post comments on polls allows viewers to feel more involved and offer opinions on various subjects.