Film Music

KS3 Scheme of Work (6-8 lessons) including 10 pages of teacher's notes and 14 pupils' worksheets
Objectives
• To become familiar with music for different films and to recognise film genres
• To learn how some musical features can be combined to create soundtracks for different film genres
• To perform a film music theme on the keyboard, and to adapt it to compose for a film clip
Overview
• Lesson 1: Film and Genre
• Lesson 2: Musical Ideas for Film Genres
• Lesson 3*: Orchestral Film Music
• Lesson 4: Listening to the James Bond Theme
• Lesson 5: Practising the James Bond Theme
• Lesson 6: Performing the James Bond Theme
• Lesson 7*: Composing film music
• Lesson 8*: Final evaluation of composition
• Cover lesson/homework worksheets:
o Sound effects for film
o Creative sound effects
o A Century of Film Music (2 pages)

* Lessons 3, 7 and 8 are self-contained lessons which can be omitted for a shorter scheme of work
Subject-specific vocabulary
• Film genres: thriller, romance, cartoon, comedy, sci-fi, western
• Musical features: cluster chords, ‘oom-pah’ accompaniment, atonal, major, minor, chromatic
• Timbres: synthesiser, strings, brass
Assessments
• Performing (keyboard) – The James Bond Theme
• Listening – Film Genres, James Bond Theme with score and in context of a film
• Composing – Goldfinger pre-credits sequence