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

an recording of all the songs and music used in a film or television series

an environment or place where an animal or plant normally lives

creating original music for film or television that enhances the narrative

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

Polar ice caps habitat - classroom percussion ensemble (audio)

British English CC

Check for understanding 1 - excerpt C

Check for understanding 2 - excerpt B

Pupil tutorial - Composing with Bandlab (introductory video)

Teacher tutorial - Setting up Bandlab for your class (video)

Polar ice caps habitat - Bandlab (video)

Pupil tutorial - Submitting your Bandlab project to your teacher (video)

Check for understanding 1 - excerpt B

Check for understanding 1 - excerpt A

Check for understanding 2 - excerpt A

Telephone Song circle game (example video)

Telephone Song circle game (audio)

Tamborȇs (O Ba Ba) - level 1 (video)

Tamborȇs (O Ba Ba) - level 1 with a partner (video)

Tamborȇs (O Ba Ba) - level 2 with a partner (video)

Tamborȇs (O Ba Ba) (audio)

Metre Mix-up (example video)

Film music: habitats

Music

Film music: characters

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

long, detailed and with complex harmonies

The music for the three Planet Earth series are examples of:

an original piece of music that contributes to the narrative

the selection of music used in a film or television series

music that aims to represent something non-musical, such as a story

Match the type of music to its definition.

Which of the following are elements of music?

The violin belongs to which family of instruments?

When we combine notes to make a memorable tune, we call this a ...

Film music: habitats

Lesson outcome