Film Music

• Identify how different styles of music contribute to the feel of a film

• Participate in discussions, sharing their views and justifying their answers

• Use the terms ‘major’ and ‘minor’

•  Identify different instruments to describe how music evokes different emotions

• Identify pitch, tempo, and dynamics, and use these to explain and justify their answers

• Give reasonable and thought out suggestions for what different graphic scores represent

• Use their body, voice and instruments to create sounds to represent a given theme

• Create a musical score to represent a composition

• Interpret their graphic score and performing their composition appropriately with their group

• Create sounds that relate to the scene of a film

Key Knowledge

To know that:

• A film soundtrack includes the background music and any songs in a film.

• 'Major' key signatures use note pitches that sound cheerful and upbeat.

• 'Minor' key signatures use note pitches that can suggest sadness and tension.

• 'Graphic notation' means writing music down using your choice of pictures or symbols but 'staff notation' means music written more formally on the special lines called 'staves'.