Unit: Film Music
Statement of Inquiry - Developing composition skills can allow us to express ourselves through non-verbal communication
Part A: Investigate & Analyse
With your new understanding of film music, design a soundscape that will convey meaning for your chosen movie clip. Think of rhythm, instrumentation, dynamic, structure and harmonies that may help you to create the mood and expression that you feel will communicate your message.
Learn how to organise and plan your information, opinions and musical knowledge in order to compose your film music.
Assessment Tasks
Part C: Create
Assessment Tasks
Part D: Evaluate and reflect
Submission
Performance: you will perform the final version of your song in class in Week 3 or 4 of Term 4.
The Process Journal: You are to keep your own record of your project throughout the process.
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Statement of Inquiry - Developing composition skills can allow us to express ourselves through non-verbal communication
Part A: Investigate & Analyse
- Investigate in what ways music can express and communicate meaning. (Time and place, emotion, convey character) Through listening and anylising various movie clips. (Last Emperor, Star Wars, Romeo and Juliet)
- Analyse Films Clips and Music Scores of Hitchcock & Herrmann’s Psycho, A Space Odyssey, Schindler’s List and James Bond. (brainstorm, note taking, worksheets and journal entries)
- Choose a film composer that inspires you and research about them, their distinguishing style of composition, which films they have composed for, any awards they have received and anything else you think will help describe their artwork. Presentation should include photos, video clips and references.
With your new understanding of film music, design a soundscape that will convey meaning for your chosen movie clip. Think of rhythm, instrumentation, dynamic, structure and harmonies that may help you to create the mood and expression that you feel will communicate your message.
Learn how to organise and plan your information, opinions and musical knowledge in order to compose your film music.
Assessment Tasks
- Write a plan, including a time-line, of how you will develop your composition and the process you will undertake.
- Plan what message and mood you would like to communicate and how you think this will be achieved.
- Write a list of members of your group, what instruments they will play or their involvement.
- Document any changes that you make to your composition. Especially after your first workshop performance.
Part C: Create
Assessment Tasks
- You will need to follow your plan in order to create your film music. You must show evidence in your journal of your creation process. You may wish to include photos, weblinks, sounds used, instruments, etc.
- Choose the most important and relevant information from your research to help guide your compositional choices.
- Experiment with chords, melodies and words until you find ones you like.
- Rehearse your film music, perform it in at least one workshop and make changes guided by the feedback that you receive.
- Make critical and informed judgements in order to give constructive feedback to your peers through workshops.
- Perform your final version of your song.
Part D: Evaluate and reflect
- Do you feel that your song communicated your intention?
- What did you learn through researching and writing a protest song?
- What were the challenges you faced in creating your song?
- What would you do differently next time?
Submission
Performance: you will perform the final version of your song in class in Week 3 or 4 of Term 4.
The Process Journal: You are to keep your own record of your project throughout the process.
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