MUSICALITY OF A MOVIE HOW TO
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Students will learn to “compose” a complete piece of music that has a beginning, middle and end.Students will learn dynamics through matching appropriate music and volume to shots and scenes of the visuals.Students will learn the basic functions of Apple’s GarageBand, including the use of Apple’s provided loops, basic multitrack mixing, lengthening/shortening loops, editing volume/pan tracks and possible recording instruments or vocals through the GarageBand interface.Music that reflects the drama and emotions of the scene(s) or define themes based on characters.

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In this lesson, students will create music for a movie trailer. The students now compose music for the scene, as a film composer might, rather than create the scene from the music as was done in the Disney “Fantasia” movies. Utilizing technology, specifically GarageBand, I was able to reverse the process. Students would, all too often, draw pictures of an orchestra, rather than some medieval sword fight on horseback.

The best example of this failure would be the drawings and stories told when I played Orff’s “O Fortuna” from “Carmina Burana”. I would usually play classical or modern Avant Garde, instrumental rock pieces. In the “old days” I would give the students paper and pencils and attempt to have them draw a scene or write the story that the music might portray. Putting music to images magnifies the images (still or moving) and is a powerful way to visualize just how music affects a character, a scene, ourselves and ultimately our audience. Creating a film score allows each of us to define characters (leitmotif), enhance the emotional content of a scene or foretell of things to come.

MUSICALITY OF A MOVIE HOW TO

– Katie Wardrobe Introduction: how to (and how not to) approach “mood music”Ĭreating a film score is a wonderful way to experience, first hand, the emotional content of music.

In this article, Mik shares a unit of work that introduces the effects of music on movies and encourages students to compose their own movie trailer. This blog post has been written by guest author Mike Dimin – a music teacher at The Charlton School in Burnt Hills, New York where he has taught a technology-based music program for vulnerable and “at-risk” high school students in a residential setting since January of 1991.Ī while back, Mike wrote another article for Midnight Music which was very popular – The Andrew Huang Challenge: Sampling and Composing with Found Objects which I can highly recommend. If you’re an educator or music industry professional who is interested in contributing an article to the Midnight Music blog, you can apply here. This article has been written by a guest author.

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