This week year 10 spent their Flexible Learning Day creating pieces of music to be used in the horror film which they'll be making next term.
The activities we did were:
- Watching a clip from 'Jaws' and learning how a musical motif can represent a character or idea in a film
- Learning about 4 devices that are used in most horror film music: drones, cluster chords, chromatic scales and trills, and practising playing them on the keyboard
- Listening to film clips and writing notes on how they work - including dynamics, tempo, tonality, devices, instruments, etc.
- Creating our own horror music motifs on the keyboard
- Learning how to use the computer programme Cubase to create effective horror music - in particular, how to loop pieces of music (repeat them), how to change the dynamics and how to make the tempo faster or slower
- Composing pieces of music to be used in scenes from the horror film - including music to build up tension, music for a chase, general underscore and music for the closing credits
In your blog about this day, you should both explain a little about what you learnt during the day, as well as how you developed your own ideas for your composition. Try to evaluate your composition so far - is it finished? What do you think you did well? What could you work on and improve?
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