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 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 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 lesson plan, where they explored how music evokes emotions, to help them perform rhythms and match instruments to art pieces.