To explore how an underscore can communicate a mood or setting, through instrumental sonorities and techniques

Music

It can change the mood of the scene and how the audience feels.

What affect can music have on film scenes?

Strings are the quietest sounding instruments so need to be nearer the audience.

The audience like to watch the string players.

Why is the string family sat at the front of the orchestra?

Because film composers can play all the instruments in the orchestra.

Because the orchestra has so many instruments and so many different sonorities.

Because these instruments have been around since the classical era.

Why do you think film composers use the instruments of the orchestra?

It is from the percussion family and it makes a low booming sound.

It is from the strings family and it makes a smooth sad sound.

It is from the woodwind family and it makes a high fluttery sound.

What family does this instrument belong to and what sound does it make?

Which instrument uses a pizzicato technique?

Which musical idea fits this description -'a low pitch held continuously throughout a piece'?

Which musical idea fits this description - 'a group of notes played together which creates a clashing sound'?

Create suspense - you don't know what's happening.

Sad scene - makes you feel for the character.

What effect can a drone have during a film scene?

Sounds that can be heard by the audience and the characters in the film.

Sounds which are added after filming and can only be heard by the audience.

Sounds which are created through recording using unusual objects.

True or false: the sound of a radio being turned on in a kitchen is non-diegetic.

True or false: the sound of a low pitch drone, played on strings, as a man approaches the bathroom door is non-diegetic.

A drum machine which a DJ uses live at a performance.

A midi keyboard which connects to a computer.

A music programme that allows you to record, edit and save audio files.

You choose a loop from a bank of sounds and drag it onto a track.

You click on the magnifying glass with a + sign and then right click to 'slice' the part you want to edit.

You click on the pencil tool to write in your own notes.

How do you zoom and cut audio using software?