Sound for Screen: Music (Week 6)

Preparation Activity

Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies

Episode 3 New Frontiers

Access Link: https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/05B420DE?bcast=127049449

References

I took notes as possible future reference.

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Moonlight dir.Barry Jenkins 2016

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Watch After Moonlight

Composer Nicolas Britell discusses his approach to the Moonlight score

Access Link: https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/05B420DE?bcast=127049449

Director Barry Jenkinson the music that made Moonlight

Access Link: https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1377-director-barry-jenkins-on-the-music-that-made-moonlight/

Mica Levi discusses the themes in Under the Skin dir. J. Glazer 2013

Access Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwcmjodI1J8

Class

Themes & Motif

Motif

• Can be a short musical phrase
• Short rhythm
• Motief develops as a charchter developes
• Small or repeated phrases become themes

an example,

• Character Motif Development

Under the Skin

Possible Methods of Working

• Not writing to picture

A composer can be asked to compose without writing a picture. Sounds crazy but this is a method of working in the film industry.

Terminology I Learned this Week

Microtonal: Relationship between the notes (Classical 12 Tone Scale)

Sharps and Flats: In-between notes (Whites & Blacks)