on original piece of music composed to accompany a film or television programme that contributes to the narrative by adding emotion, tension or drama

creating original music for film or television that enhances the narrative

using music to reveal a character’s personality, traits, emotions and motivations

a short recurring musical idea in a film score that represents a place, character, emotion or idea

the building blocks or key ingredients needed to create a piece of music e.g. pitch, rhythm or structure

Pupil tutorial - adding an animal to your habitat - video

British English CC

Example orca searching for food film score - created using a DAW - video

Example orca searching for food film score - created using a DAW - audio

Example orca searching for food film score - classroom percussion - audio

Four White Horses - fast (video)

Four White Horses - slow (audio)

Metre Mix-up (example video)

Four White Horses - backing track - slow (audio)

Four White Horses - backing track - fast (audio)

Four White Horses - fast (audio)

1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - backing track (fast) (audio)

Four White Horses - slow (video)

Film music: characters

Music

Film music: habitats

Film music: atmosphere

Film music: drama

In this unit, pupils are introduced to the term, film music. They study many examples of film music composed for the BBC nature documentaries Planet Earth II and Planet Earth III and use these as their inspiration for composing their own film scores.

Compose and create: nature documentary inspired film scores

A __________ is a short recurring musical idea in a film score that represents a place, character, emotion or idea.

Which of these are **not** elements of music?

Texture is the layering of sounds. We can think of this vertically. {{}} is the ordering of music, thinking about the way to organise each section. We can think of this horizontally.

True or false? Programme music is used in films to build the narrative of a character.

When we play instruments together in a group, or sing together, we are performing in an ...

the way the music is organised, ordering different sections of a piece

a description of the sound or tone of an instrument

the combination of different layers of sounds

Match the musical element to its definition.

A __________ is an original piece of music composed to accompany a film or television programme that contributes to the narrative by adding emotion, tension or drama.

Film music: characters

Lesson outcome