Year 10 - Music
Scoring a film scene
Film music: developing ideas and understanding
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Lesson Summary
You will learn to create a piece of music for a short scene.
Key Notes
- Film composers have to carefully match musical changes to precise cues and timestamps.
- Manipulating the tempo is one method that helps to fit sections of music to specific timings.
- Sometimes transitions between sections are deliberately sudden to match sudden changes in the action.
- Composers can also make more musical transitions by 'blending' features of the two sections to create a seamless change.
Vocabulary To Learn
- cue: a precise moment in a scene where something happens, requiring the music to match it
- timestamp: a specific moment in time in a composition (e.g. 01:25 - 1 minute and 25 seconds)
- musical transition: when two sections of music are linked in a coherent and musically satisfying way
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Changes between moods in a scene should always be sudden.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Film composers have to carefully match musical changes to precise cues and timestamps. Manipulating the tempo is one method that helps to fit sections of music to specific timings.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'cue'
a precise moment in a scene where something happens, requiring the music to match it.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Changes between moods in a scene should always be sudden. Correction: This is not always the case. Sometimes it is more appropriate to create a gradual change so that the shift isn't dramatically obvious. This might be where there is a gradual change of mood or action in a scene.
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