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This course provides opportunities for students to apply their composition skills to film music. 

This course unit is designed to provide students with choices in compositional outcomes by responding to films and their soundtracks with original scores in a wide variety of styles.

 

MUSC30540 Pre req: MUSC20321+MUSC20362 or MUSC20061+ MUSC2072

Pre-requisites Film Music: MUSC20321+ MUSC20362 or MUSC20061 + MUSC20072

 

• Provide opportunities for students to creatively and individually respond with original contemporary music to other media in a variety of ways
• Undertake research into aesthetics and practical issues arising from contemporary composition within and to the boundaries of current realms of research
• Increase student employability either as freelance composers or working within media companies

 

 

 

• Articulate aesthetic and practical issues arising within film composition or game audio.
• Understand the technologies and tools necessary for working in the creative industry.

• Demonstrate the development of a more advanced, creative and specialised response to a topic in the context of a field of study.
• Apply composition skills developed through earlier composition courses in the curriculum to practical situations.
   

• Demonstrate enhanced skill in using technology, should they choose to use it, when realising specific compositional outcomes
• Prepare and deliver a presentation on a negotiated aspect of the module as a formative experience toward completing a piece of work

• Demonstrate the development of dialogue through supervisions whilst undertaking a negotiated field of study in order to strengthen their general communicative abilities and to communicate a specific point of view or outcome.
• Thinking through challenges in a logical way and applying skills to realise creative solutions.

Assessment Task	Formative or Summative	Weighting
Film Music: original music integrated into a non-musical, extant soundtrack	Summative	100%

 

 

Supervisions, in-class discussion, scheduled presentation of work, ongoing verbal feedback to student interaction and seminars.	Formative
Written feedback on coursework assessment	Summative

 

 

FILM MUSIC OPTION:

• Brown, Royal S. Overtones and Undertones (California, 1994)
• Bryan Key, W  Media Sexploitation (Signet, 1976, pp 98-145)
• Burt, G  The Art of Film Music (Northeastern Uni Press, 1994)
• Chion, Michel  Audio-vision: Sound on Screen (trans. Gorbman)
• Gorbman, Claudia, Unheard Melodies: Narrative Film Music (Bloomington, 1987)
• Murch, W  In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing (Silman-James Press, 2001)
• Pasquariello, N Sound of Movies: Interviews with Creators of Feature Sound Tracks (San Francisco, 1996)

Numerous films from lecture playlists, as well as these particular Hitchcock films:

The Lady Vanishes, The Thirty-Nine Steps, Young and Innocent, Strangers on a Train, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Psycho.