Sp 2 | Creating Music for Film and TV: Character, Atmosphere and Environment
During the spring term, Year 5 students embark on a creative journey, composing music for film and television. This unit corresponds to the curriculum’s goal of fostering composition skills. Pupils learn to evoke specific emotions, character traits, atmospheres, and environments through music, providing …
Overview
During the spring term, Year 5 students embark on a creative journey, composing music for film and television. This unit corresponds to the curriculum’s goal of fostering composition skills. Pupils learn to evoke specific emotions, character traits, atmospheres, and environments through music, providing them with a solid foundation for more complex composition projects in Year 6.
Expected Standards:
- Improvise freely over a drone, creating musical shapes and character using tuned percussion and melodic instruments.
- Compose melodies made from pairs of phrases, in a key suitable for the instrument chosen, enhanced with rhythmic or chordal accompaniment.
- Compose music with contrasting elements to evoke specific atmospheres, moods, or environments.
Lesson structure
- Introduce the unit
- Warm up
- Track/Intro
- Short creative activity
- Ensemble Activity
- Song
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Course Features
- Lectures 6
- Quiz 0
- Duration Lifetime access
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 3
- Assessments Yes
