Year 7 Project based Home-Learning

Discover and Endeavour Key Vocabulary: Key Websites/Resources to use: Leitmotif, Soundtrack, Theme Song, GCSE Study and Revision Guide Mickey-Mousing, Concord/Discord, Film Music Knowledge Organiser (Chromatic) Sequencing, Film Music Information KS3 Storyboard, ‘Borrowed’ Music, https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zwdhpv4/revision/1 Music-Spotting, Interval of a 5th, Click Tracks/Timing, Theme, Sound Effects, Motif, Timbre/Sonority, Musical Clichés, Diegetic and Non- Diegetic Film Music.

Choose a film music composer – John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Thomas Newman, Danny Elfman, Ennio Morricone – and listen to three different pieces from different films identifying the musical ingredients of each, how the elements of music are used to meet the mood, feel and style of the film and why they might have chosen those particular instruments. Create a presentation using PP/Word.

MUST SHOULD COULD

From your chosen From your chosen From your chosen composer how do they use composer how do they use composer how do they use the following elements of the following elements of the following elements of music to meet the mood, music to meet the mood, music to meet the mood, feel and style of the film: feel and style of the film: feel and style of the film: • Instrumentation • Instrumentation • Instrumentation • Pitch • Pitch • Pitch • Dynamics • Dynamics • Dynamics • Silence • Silence • Tempo • Tempo • Melody • Melody • Rhythm/Duration • Texture • Structure

EXTRA CHALLENGE: What is your favourite film? Describe the ‘Main Theme’ referring to the elements listed above.