Write a Film Music Review Activity/Lesson

Year 7/8 students will learn to listen carefully to the film score as they complete a Film Music Review activity. By selecting the 'best' of three short music reviews, they will learn how to write their own. Short sentence starters help the process and students complete the activity by composing their own review.
Contributes to achieving the outcome (ACAMUR097) Analyse composers’ use of the elements of music and stylistic features when listening to and interpreting music.
The particular elements of Literacy addressed by this content description:
- Comprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing
- Comprehend texts
- Navigate, read and view learning area texts
- Listen and respond to learning area texts
- Interpret and analyse learning area texts
Text knowledge
- Use knowledge of text structures
Word Knowledge
- Understand music vocabulary
Students will:
- build on their aural skills by identifying and manipulating rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre and texture in their listening
- aurally identify layers within a texture