Movie Music Unit: Listening, Analysis, & Composition
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This is a captivating, hands-on unit on Music in Film! Comprising of three sections: listening, analysis, and composition, students get to explore the purpose of movie music and how it makes movies come to life!
Note: There is an embedded slideshow link, a fillable PDF of the Movie Music Analysis Packet, and printable PDFs for everything. Due to copyright reasons, I do not provide editable Google Slides.
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-Slideshow of Movie Music Unit: begins with a short synopsis on John Williams and his most famous movie compositions. Then the unit is split into 3 parts: Listening, Analysis, and Composition. Students learn to notice how music evokes emotion and enhances movie clips. It is a very thorough and hands-on unit, engaging all students!
-Quick-start Teacher Summary: a guide for the teacher in how to run the unit
-Movie Music Analysis Packet: This is a hands-on activity in which students watch 14 different movie clips and analyze the tempo, the mood, the instruments, and the plot. If you feel uncomfortable with a movie selection, you can always change it or omit it. They are all school-appropriate for middle/high school aged. (You can also shorten the clip to omit something.)
Movie Titles Include:
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- The Incredibles
- ET
- Black Panther
- The Titanic
- Jurassic Park
- Star Wars
- Jaws
- Harry Potter
- La La Land
- Moana
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- The Greatest Showman
- Avatar
**If for some reason the youtube links do not work, try opening them again. I periodically check to see if they are up to date. At times with youtube, clips are randomly erased. I will do my best to check on them.
- Student Directions for Movie Music Composition: For the composing segment, they will get to work in partners and choose a movie clip that they would like to write their own music to. Using the free website "Chrome Music Lab: Song Maker," they will have the freedom to be creative and release their inner-composers!
My middle school students loved learning about music in film, the important role it plays in movies, and being able to write their own composition using technology!
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