Film music
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Film music
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Identify how different styles of music contribute to the feel of a film.
- Participate in discussions, sharing their views and justifying their answers.
- Use the terms ‘major’ and ‘minor’.
- Identify different instruments to describe how music evokes different emotions.
- Identify pitch, tempo and dynamics and use these to explain and justify their answers.
- Give reasonable and thought-out suggestions for what different graphic scores represent.
- Use their body, voice and instruments to create sounds to represent a given theme.
- Create a musical score to represent a composition.
- Interpret their graphic score and perform their composition appropriately with their group.
- Create sounds that relate to the scene of a film.
Suggested prior learning
Songs of World War 2
Get startedLesson plans
Lesson 1: Soundtracks
- To appraise different musical features in a variety of film contexts.
Lesson 2: Scenes and sounds
- To identify and understand some composing techniques in film music.
Lesson 3: Following the score
- To use graphic scores to interpret different emotions in film music.
Lesson 4: Composing for film
- To create and notate musical ideas and relate them to film music.
Lesson 5: The soundtrack
- To play a sequence of musical ideas to convey emotion.
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Build on the learning
Theme and variations (Theme: Pop Art)
Pupils build on their knowledge from the Film music unit to help them perform rhythms and match instruments to art pieces.