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Hi there everybody.

Welcome to today's lesson on film music characters.

This is taken from our compose and create unit where we're looking at nature documentary inspired film scores.

My name is Mr. Croughan, and in today's lesson we're going to be listening to some film scores, taking some of the best ideas we can find, and then creating our own character-based motif to add to our own film score.

Are we ready?

Let's go.

In today's lesson, you'll be developing a motif for a film score that represents a character and its setting.

Let's begin then by looking at today's keywords.

We'll start with film score.

This is an original piece of music composed to accompany a film or a television program that contributes to the narrative by adding emotion, attention, or drama, then scoring.

This is creating original music for film or television that really enhances their narrative, the story that's being told.

Next is characterization.

So with music we can use it to reveal a character's personality, their traits, their emotions, what they're feeling, and perhaps their motivations.

Motif is next.

This is a short recurring musical idea in a film score that represents perhaps a place or a character, an animal, an emotion, an idea, whatever it might be.

And then lastly, and this is what we're going to be manipulating if you like today, the elements of music.

These are the building blocks or the key ingredients needed to create a piece of music such as pitch, rhythm, structure, and all of the rest which we'll be using today.

We know how important it is to warm up before we begin our music lessons.

We wanna warm up our minds.

That gets us focused in the zones.

We're ready to work with each other and listen well and be creative.

We want our bodies to be warmed up because it just kind of brings us to life, helps us play together.

If we're playing instruments, we're gonna be more successful.

And then also our voices, because if we're using our voices, we want to keep them safe and it helps develop our singing skills too, and that is why the three warmups today are number one meter mix-up where you are watching and changing the count each time the numbers are called.

So you are listening really carefully and responding.

The second video of one, two, three, four, five, a good bit of focusing for our minds and gentle bit of singing.

And then four white horses where we can work in twos or fours.

It's quite hilarious.

You're going to learn it, sing it, and then eventually add the clapping in.

So I'm gonna play each one of these in turn.

Here comes meter mix up.

<v ->Join in with me and watch for the changing numbers.

</v> I'll count with you to begin with and then I'll drop out.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Five.

Three.

Seven.

Two.

Six.

Eight.

Five.

Two.

Four.

Seven.

Three.

Eight.

Six.

Four.

<v ->Great.

Very well done.

</v> Now ready to focus for one, two, three, four, five.

♪ One two three four five ♪ ♪ One two three four five ♪ ♪ One two three four five ♪ ♪ One two three four five ♪ ♪ One two three ♪ ♪ Four five one two three ♪ ♪ Four five one two three ♪ ♪ Four five one two three ♪ ♪ Four five one two three ♪ ♪ Four five one ♪ ♪ Two three four five one ♪ ♪ Two three four five one ♪ ♪ Two three four five one ♪ ♪ Two three four five one ♪ ♪ Two three four ♪ ♪ Five one two three four ♪ ♪ Five one two three four ♪ ♪ Five one two three four ♪ ♪ Five one two three four ♪ ♪ Five one two ♪ ♪ Three four five one two ♪ ♪ Three four five one two ♪ ♪ Three four five one two ♪ ♪ Three four five one two ♪ ♪ Three four five ♪ ♪ One two three four five ♪ ♪ One two three four five ♪ ♪ One two three four five ♪ ♪ One two three four five ♪ ♪ One two three ♪ ♪ Four five one two three ♪ ♪ Four five one two three ♪ ♪ Four five one two three ♪ ♪ Four five one two three ♪ ♪ Four five one ♪ ♪ Two three four five one ♪ ♪ Two three four five one ♪ ♪ Two three four five one ♪ ♪ Two three four five one ♪ ♪ Two three four ♪ ♪ Five one two three four ♪ ♪ Five one two three four ♪ ♪ Five one two three four ♪ ♪ Five one two three four ♪ ♪ Five one two ♪ ♪ Three four five one two ♪ ♪ Three four five one two ♪ ♪ Three four five one two ♪ ♪ Three four five one two ♪ ♪ Three four five ♪ ♪ One two three four five ♪ ♪ One two three four five ♪ ♪ One two three four five ♪ ♪ One two three four five ♪ ♪ One two three ♪ ♪ Four five one two three ♪ ♪ Four five one two three ♪ ♪ Four five one two three ♪ ♪ Four five one two three ♪ ♪ Four five one ♪ ♪ Two three four five one ♪ ♪ Two three four five one ♪ ♪ Two three four five one ♪ ♪ Two three four five one ♪ ♪ Two three four ♪ ♪ Five one two three four ♪ ♪ Five one two three four ♪ ♪ Five one two three four ♪ ♪ Five one two three four ♪ ♪ Five one two ♪ ♪ Three four five one two ♪ ♪ Three four five one two ♪ ♪ Three four five one two ♪ ♪ Three four five one two ♪ ♪ Three four five ♪ <v ->And lastly, four white horses.

</v> If you've not sung this one before, perhaps listen to it a couple of times.

You can pause the video.

There's audio tracks to help you as well.

I'm just gonna play you this video.

This video happens to be the slower of the two.

So eventually you can be up to speed in singing and clapping this at a pace, but here is the standard version for you to learn.

Here it comes.

♪ Ready steady off we go ♪ ♪ Four white horses on the river ♪ ♪ Hey hey hey up tomorrow ♪ ♪ Up tomorrow is a rainy day ♪ ♪ Come on and join our shadow play ♪ ♪ Shadow play is a ripe banana ♪ ♪ Hey hey hey up tomorrow ♪ ♪ Up tomorrow is a rainy day ♪ <v ->So depending how much time you have in your classroom</v> or your setting, it's up to you now whether you want to pause, revisit any of those, do them at a different tempo or decide that you are currently feeling warmed up and ready for music.

Pause here if you need to.

Otherwise, we're gonna press on.

There are two learning cycles in today's lesson.

The first one is characterization in film scores, and the second one is scoring an animal.

Let's begin with characterization in film scores.

Now, a film score, it's an original piece of music composed to accompany a film or a television program.

And the addition of a film score really contributes to the storytelling, the narrative in that film or TV program.

It's a really effective way of adding emotion, tension, suspense, drama to that story.

Now, film scores will also use motifs to help us recognize a character, and maybe understand that character's journey or part of the story.

A film score can contribute to the description of a character and it really helps us to understand a bit more what they're like.

You see the film score can help us build deeper connections with characters and it shapes our emotional responses to them.

I'll give you an idea.

If there was someone doing something dreadful in a film or trying to be terrifying or whatever, likely the film score isn't gonna have beautiful music.

This person seems so safe, it's gonna have something quite- music that makes us feel more uneasy.

So it helps us go, oh, I associate that character with uneasiness, for example.

So think about a film that you've watched recently, and did the film score influence how you felt about a character?

I've got a young child at home and we like to watch films.

We recently watched "Encanto" and we realized that, oh, that motif, that sounds like Bruno's music, and that motif that sounds like Mirabel's music, and it's used in different ways throughout the film.

So have just a pause and a think, maybe check in with each other about something you've watched, and see if you can think about that film score, that music, and check if it's influenced how you felt about a character.

Off you go.

Right then, very well done.

Hope there's some good conversations there.

If you couldn't think of some music in a film that made you feel a certain way about a character, then next time you watch one or even a TV program, those scores are there to really guide us in different ways.

So I would- and give us feelings about a character.

So I would like you to just next time you watch anything that's got music underscoring it, which is most stuff, just have more of a listen to that music, and realize what important part it is playing.

Right, quick check-in for you.

How can a film score enhance storytelling?

I'll give you a clue.

There's more than one correct answer here.

Is it A, by shaping our emotional response to the narrative?

So how we feel about the story, does it add depth and detail to the story?

Does it draw our attention to what's important?

And does it provide us with deeper connections with the characters?

Which of those do you think is true?

As I've said, there's certainly more than one correct answer there.

You can pause if you like to if you need to have a little chat about it.

I'm going to reveal to you that all of them are true.

A film score can enhance that storytelling in all of these ways.

That's why it's so powerful, and that's why sometimes perhaps you don't even notice it happening because it's very clever.

Now then, "Planet Earth" series is a famous BBC natural history documentary, the three series: "Planet Earth" and "Planet Earth II", which came out 10 years later in 2016, and then "Planet Earth III" in 2023.

Now, across the series, the stories of many animals are told, and these award-winning film scores help contribute to the characterization of the animals.

So it's kind of brings them to life in another way.

Helps explain their journey and maybe some of the dangers or successes that they face in the documentary.

So I'd like you to listen to this film score.

I'm not going to tell you what animal it is.

So hopefully your class teacher is able to play this without showing you what animal is being described here, ideally.

And I'd like you to see if you can hear a motif that tune, that pattern, that might repeat.

If you can, whilst you're listening, what is it you might be imagining?

Think about the habitat.

Think about the characters, the animal or animals, and what they might be doing.

Now, of course, there's no wrong answer here 'cause we can't see, but you are gonna just think, oh, this music makes me think of this habitat, these animals, and I think they might be doing this.

Entirely, it's your imagination.

It's what that music brings to life for you.

So pause here and then remember it's fine that you'll all have different ideas.

It's just one part of building a character and it's just enhancing the visuals that you could see on the screen.

So pause, have a listen and then we'll come back together.

Off you go.

There we are.

Then it was from the film score called "Arctic Wolves.

" I don't imagine anyone necessarily specifically said, I think that's Arctic wolves unless they saw it on the screen.

But if you got close to that, if you think, oh yes, it was a bit similar, perhaps that music is starting to tell us a bit of a story.

Now, "Arctic Wolves" was scored for "Planet Earth III" in 2023 by Jacob Shea and Sara Barone.

And the film score is in the sixth episode of the series called "Extremes" on that soundtrack album.

So we get this sense in the documentary of the icy landscape, the harsh reality of the wolves' existence, and their precarious journeys across the ice.

And during the documentary, it's explained that the arctic wolves have survived a long, harsh winter.

And then in the filming, the sun returns to Ellesmere Island, and the wolves are seen running across the ice and snow.

Now in this part of the world, the summer season is short and they need to find food.

Now the land is vast, and their prey that's really spread out.

So the wolves must keep moving constantly if they're to find any food.

So the music underscores all of this, and helps us more understand that and the challenges that the wolves face.

So a quick check.

How does the film score add to the characterization of the wolves giving us a sense of their movements and their search for food?

Now we know that extra bit of information, you're going to listen to that music a second time, to "Arctic Wolves," and just think specifically how is it doing it?

What in the music, how does that film score add to the characterization of the wolves?

How does the music give us a sense of their movements, how their movements, and their search for food?

Does it feel calm or desperate?

What's happening in music?

Have a pause and then listen.

Remember, there's no wrong idea.

There's just what you are hearing and what you think is possible.

So pause, drop some ideas down, share with your friends, and then we'll come back together, and see if there's any similarities.

Off you go.

Great stuff.

Well done.

You may have said things like the string instruments bring a sort of icy quality, perhaps.

Maybe the note durations, they're short and the rhythms are repetitive, like that rhythm of running along the ice.

And maybe that the dynamics grow, it begins to swell, the texture builds as more and more things are happening, and it's giving us a sense of urgency on this hunt for food.

You may have had some ideas like that, and you may have had some of your own, but really well done.

But really starting to think about what it is that the music is bringing to the documentary.

You're gonna pause in a minute and listen to another film score from this time, "Planet Earth II.

" Again, I'm not gonna tell you which animal it is and don't try cheating either.

Instead, you're going to close your eyes or leave them open, I don't mind, and see if you can hear a motif.

Same thing again, but what are you imagining this time?

Where do you think this space is?

What habitat are we in?

What characters or animals?

What are they that are there?

One of them, many of them?

What might they be doing?

What do we think is the story being told here?

And remember, of course, there's no wrong answer.

You'll all have different ideas.

It's a film score, and it's primarily there to enhance what people can see on the screen, that visual storytelling.

So we are stripping that away and just listening.

So have a think what the location is, where the habitat is, the characters and what they might be up to.

Pause now, and you can always have a chat, and share your ideas with each other after you've listened.

Off you go.

That is a great piece of music.

It's called "Dancing Bears.

" And "Dancing Bears" was scored for "Planet Earth III" by Jacob Shea and Joshua Klebe, and it's in episode two.

It's in the mountains episode on the soundtrack album.

And it really helps capture the joy of seeing grizzly bears having a really satisfying scratch on a tree, scratching their backs on a tree.

It's quite joyful.

Now, in the documentary, it's explained that when there's the warmer weather in Alberta, in Canada, the bears need to shed their winter coats.

Now to help them do this, they travel long distances to scratch their backs.

Not on any tree, but against their favorite trees.

Just imagine traveling so far to find your favorite tree.

I'm sure you've got one.

If you haven't, go and find one.

Now, as they scratch, the bears leave behind their recognizable scent, which is amazing 'cause it means that every bear always has its own distinct smell.

They can identify which bears are around, and because they can, it helps avoid fights.

So before any of the music started, this is a fascinating documentary.

What the music then does is bring to life some of that playfulness, some of that travel, that movement of the bears, and I'd like you to have another listen now that you know that it's bears, and see if it adds to that characterization of the bears.

Does it give a sense of satisfaction that they might be getting from scratching that itch?

How is it doing that, okay?

So pause here, have a listen, and think what is in the music that gives that sense of satisfaction that they might be getting from scratching that itch on their favorite tree?

Off you go.

Brilliant.

Maybe you said something like there's a strong beat.

You kinda wanna tap your foot along in times of the music.

Gives it a groove.

This feeling of movement that's happening, perhaps something around there about that strong beat also, the repetitive motif has a simple rise and fall in the pattern.

Maybe that's a bit like the bears as they rub up and down on their favorite tree to scratch their backs and that kind of repetitive motion.

Maybe you said lots of other things as well, but really well done for more of your understanding of how the music is bringing that characterization of that animal to life.

I'd like to listen to arctic wolves again now, and I'd like you to tick the statements that are true.

So on the next screen, there's going to be, I think, five statements, and I would like you to decide which ones you think are true.

And then you can put a cross on the ones that you think are false.

Okay, here they come.

There is A, the string instruments are quivering, suggesting cold temperatures.

There's B, the piece has a thin texture to make it sound delicate as the ice.

C, the strong memorable woodwind motif gives the wolves their defiant character.

D, the repetitive short jumpy motif sounds like the wolves running delicately across the ice.

And E, the piece feels like it could go on forever.

Repeating the short motif like the icy expanse that's there before the wolves.

Okay, so pause.

Keep those five on the screen and whilst you're listening, decide which of those you think are true and which are not.

Off you go.

Okay, if you've got all those, let's see if our answers align.

So A, yes, the string instruments are quivering.

Maybe that does suggest cold, shivery temperatures.

The piece doesn't have a thin texture to make it sound delicate as ice.

That's not a true statement there nor is there a strong memorable woodwind motif giving the wolves a defiant character.

But there is a repetitive jumpy motif that sounds like the wolves are running delicately across the ice.

And the piece does feel like it could go on forever with that repetitive short motif.

Almost like the icy expanse that's there before the wolves.

Looking at how far they have to travel for their food.

Good stuff.

You're going to listen to dancing bears again, same thing.

Tick the statements that you think are true, and put a cross by the ones you believe to be untrue.

Okay, here they come.

The first one says the soft dynamics and the slow tempo throughout represents the bear's hibernating period really well.

Or B, the strong percussive rhythm that gives a sense of the bear's cheeky characters.

C, the structure of the piece starting and ending with that characterful motif in that ABA structure, that ternary structure that makes it memorable.

It tells us it's an important part of the film.

D, well the piece only uses brass instruments 'cause that sounds big and bold just like the bears.

And lastly, E, the changing textures add contrast.

Just like our feelings towards the bears.

Are they cute and cuddly or are they big and scary?

So pause here, leave these up on the screen.

Your teacher will play that track "Dancing Bears.

" And you are gonna decide of A, B, C, and D and E, which of them are true and which are false.

Pause now.

See you in a bit.

Very well done.

Let's see if you've got them all correct.

So soft dynamics and slow tempo throughout.

No, would it represent the bear's hibernating period?

Maybe.

But that's not what's happening in this piece of music.

The strong percussive rhythms, however, do give a sense of the bear's cheeky characters and the structure of the piece starting, and ending with the characterful motif in that ABA structure, yes, it is memorable, and yes, it tells us it's an important part of the film.

The piece only uses brass instruments.

I hope you were listening very well 'cause it's not true.

They might sound big and bold, just like the bears, but that's not what's happening in this music.

And lastly, the changing texture does add contrast.

Sometimes there's just a couple of things happening in the music, then it's layered up with more sounds, and like our feelings towards the bears, maybe they are cute and cuddly, but more likely they are big and scary and terrifying.

Time for our second learning cycle of this lesson, and this is scoring an animal.

Meerkat seven!

Nope, not that kind of scoring, but how we are thinking musically, how we will score an animal's journey and motif in a documentary.

So we're gonna score for an animal considering how we can capture its character with music.

First of all, think about the habitat that you chose previously, whether that was in the forest or the desert or the jungle, wherever you decided to set it.

You're gonna think about which animals live in that habitat, maybe some opportunity for some research at this point, and then decide which animal you're going to add to your film score.

Okay, if you don't have a habitat, 'cause you weren't here last week, or the last time you did this, whatever, you could choose any of these: this desert, polar ice caps, woodlands, city.

Perhaps you want to choose, you know, jungle or rainforest or whatever it might be, but if you've got yours from last time, please keep the same one, all right?

When you are researching your animal, I would like you to find out the following: What do they look like?

How big are they?

Are they predator or prey?

Fight or flight?

What do they eat and how do they find their food?

Importantly, are they solitary animals or do they live in a pack?

And how do you think they are usually perceived?

What do we think of them?

What kind of character do you think that they have?

Alright, you might want to pause that screen.

I'm just gonna suggest to you that please take notes as you research to help you remember those animal facts and share your research with a talking partner or in a trio, however you want to work.

So you can ask questions about each other's chosen animal, investigate that early part of the conversation about how it might be represented in a film score.

I'm gonna put the previous, make sure you've got somewhere where you can take notes, whether that's a whiteboard or a journal or a book or whatever.

You're going to go and do some research on this.

Pause, get all those ideas down, and then we'll come back, and that will inform the music that we will make.

Off you go.

Now remember, this is a film score.

So based on that research you've done, which is fantastic, really well done, you're gonna create a narrative for your animal in their natural habitat.

So note down your animal's narrative.

What I mean by this is what story are you telling as part of your music?

Or to think of it another way, what are you imagining happening on the screen that you are bringing to life with your music?

That's gonna help me form the structure and the character of your film score.

So as an example of that, Alex's says, well, my film score, my animal, I chose the ocean.

My animal's an orca, so I'm gonna follow the migration of an orca as it searches for food.

So he's got his habitat, he's got his animal, he knows how big it is, got an idea about what it eats, and how it travels to get there.

So he knows clearly what his animal's narrative is, okay.

I would like you to decide that now.

Off you go.

Brilliant.

Good stuff.

And now I'd like you to think about the elements of music that you can use to help us score our musical ideas and add that second motif, your character motif.

What I mean by this is, if you think about pitch, rhythm, duration, you are thinking, am I gonna use high notes?

Is it up and down?

What sort of sound do I want to create to represent this animal?

Are notes going to be short, clipped, slow, long?

Am I using a repeated rhythm?

Or does the rhythm become uneven for whatever reason, depending on what you are describing your animal doing and where it is, thinking about that timbre the sound of the music and the instruments you might use.

What's gonna create the right atmosphere?

If you've got something barren like the polar ice caps and a desert, it's gonna sound very different, you know, to a city or a stormy sea or whatever it might be.

Then think about the dynamics.

How loud or quiet does this change?

And if it does change, is it gradual?

Is there a sudden change that suddenly get loud when something happens?

You know, it's up to you to decide that.

And you're thinking about the texture, how many things are happening at once?

Now if you're thinking, if you're adding different ideas at the same time, you're creating a thicker texture.

But if you're just adding one or two ideas, then that's a thinner texture, and it really depends on whether you are describing, you know, ice or sand or a busy city or, or rainforest or whatever it might be, okay?

It's probably worth pausing here to jot down some of those ideas and then we'll move on to the creating and the making of it.

Have a pause, work through each of those four boxes, and just get some ideas down as a starter.

Off you go.

Brilliant, so you're gonna use those ideas now and build on them.

Now you can use your digital audio workstation if that's what you've been using, that software like band lab or whatever other DAW you might be using, and I'll give you an example of what that looks like.

And of course you can also instead create an ensemble somewhere between four and six of you in a classroom using percussion instruments or other instruments that are available to you, perhaps your own instruments if you're bringing them in now.

And I'll give you an idea of what that might sound like too.

First of all, here comes an example of an orca film score using a digital audio workstation.

Here it is.

Lovely, now I'd like you to listen to an orca-themed film score that's made in a classroom working as an ensemble.

Here it comes.

Now we're gonna listen to that one again, that orca film score, and we're gonna think how it uses the elements of music.

Now you've got your notes here for what you might like to happen.

I'm gonna play it again, and see if you recognize that there's, so the pitch rhythm and note durations, there's even rhythms.

It's repetitively up and down, up and down, perhaps, that's like the waves.

The timbre, the piano has the motif that we hear, there are some strings making the smooth, watery feeling, perhaps, and then with dynamics, but it's quiet and gentle.

But the small surges getting slightly louder and quieter, is that the way the orca is swimming, perhaps?

And then the texture, kind of two motifs laid together over a few different musical ideas.

So you're gonna listen to that texture going from thinner to thicker, okay?

Here comes the music.

Listen and listen out for each of those, and it might inspire you to think how you are going to use yours and how you're applying these to your composition.

Here it comes.

Brilliant, well done everyone.

Now this is your practice task.

This is what you're going to do.

You're gonna firstly recap your habitat motif on the previous lesson.

So that might be saved on the computer, if not, and you are playing it live, then remember, what you are doing is your part of the ensemble, how you are playing that instrument, what that tune was, all the rest of it to create that.

Once you're reminded of that and it's fresh in your head, you're going to compose your second motif, and this is the narrative around your animal.

The animal you've chosen to live in that habitat, and what you need to think about based on what we've heard so far, those ideas that we've got from all of this lesson so far, how might the idea contrast in pitch and in rhythm to the habitat motif?

How is it going to be different?

You're probably thinking about the size of the animal, the way it moves, how it's searching for its prey or whatever.

Think how the texture will change.

Is it a very thin texture, just one or two ideas?

And does it change over time?

Like, with the orca, if we're hearing it kind of crash to the surface almost, and go back as part of its swim, then more layers are being added.

So think about your animal, and how you are describing its movements and its character.

Think about that motif once you've composed it that suits the character of the animal, does it repeat?

And if it repeats, which it should, is it in the same way?

Is it slower?

Is it quieter?

Is it quicker?

What and why?

How are you telling the story of what your character's up to?

And then the dynamics, how might they be used to create the right kind of atmosphere?

You might be thinking if they're predator or prey, perhaps that's gonna affect the changing dynamics as well, and then, of course, you're gonna consider what instruments you might use, whether that is from the digital software that you are using or whether it's your own instrument from home, instruments from around the classroom, your voice, body percussion, absolutely anything is available to you.

Okay, so pause here, and create your second motif that's gonna introduce that character's journey and tell us a bit of a story.

It's often helpful to imagine seeing it on a screen, and then looking to how you bring that to life with your music.

Off you go.

Fantastic.

So we're building our composition, you're doing brilliantly, and I'd like you to think about the successes that you've had already.

Think about why does that pitch and rhythm of your new motif, that second motif, how have you got it?

So that it does suit the habitat, the animal's character, the narrative, the story that's going on.

What have you done brilliantly?

What's effective in what you've done already?

Celebrate that then think about what instruments and timbres we have used or chose to use this, and it's working really well, or we did change it actually 'cause now it sounds even better, whatever.

Think if someone said to you, why did you choose that instrument for that animal?

You'd be able to explain why.

And there's no wrong answer as long as you can justify it.

And then how have you changed the texture?

Is there more going on?

Does it start, does that animal live by itself or in a big pack?

You know, how are you telling that story?

And that's gonna affect the texture of the music.

And then think about the dynamics you've chosen as well.

Oh, it was super quiet until they pounced and then it got loud or whatever it might be.

Okay, so you're gonna pause, and just reflect on what's going well for your composition so far.

Brilliant.

Well done.

You've got some fantastic ideas.

The narrative motifs really developing, it's gonna be added to the habitat setting motif and it's really gonna help build this beautiful composition.

You are already doing wonderfully well.

Let's have a recap on what we've learned today.

First of all, an effective film score will help us understand, and deepen our connection with a character.

Using a motif in a film score that helps us strengthen the understanding of the narrative through the music, we might identify a particular character with it or an idea.

Now the motifs in film scores from "Planet Earth," they helped bring the characters, those animals in the documentaries to life.

Of course, those dancing bears were very different from the arctic wolves.

And a motif can be developed and built on to create a bigger piece, which is exactly what you've been doing.

Really well done for today.

This is starting to become very exciting, and I look forward to seeing you next time.

All the best.

Bye for now.