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 performing 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 startedLessons
Lesson 1: Soundtracks
Lesson 2: Scenes and sounds
Lesson 3: Following the score
Lesson 4: Composing for film
Lesson 5: The soundtrack
Key skills
- Recognising and confidently discussing
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Key knowledge
- To know that a
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Key vocabulary
accelerando
body percussion
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Unit resources
Assessment – Year 6: Film music
Assessment resources for this unit. Use
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Knowledge organiser
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Key vocabulary
Subject resources
Music: Long-term plans
A suggested order for teaching Music
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National curriculum mapping
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Music: Pupil progression of skills
Progression document showing how skills and
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Assessment
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Equipment list
A list of essential and optional
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Key vocabulary
A unit-by-unit list of musical vocabulary
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Music teacher skills videos
A collection of teacher skills videos
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Cross-curricular opportunities
None relevant to this unit.