Composition for Film

MUSC30541 Composition for Film 20 Semester 1 Undergraduate Level 3 Rosalia Soria Luz Unit coordinator Music 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Last part of a Bachelors ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 10.0 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.  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. <ul> <li style="margin-left: 36pt;"> Provide opportunities for students to creatively and individually respond with original contemporary music to other media in a variety of ways</li> <li style="margin-left: 36pt;"> Undertake research into aesthetics and practical issues arising from contemporary composition within and to the boundaries of current realms of research</li> <li style="margin-left: 36pt;"> Increase student employability either as freelance composers or working within media companies</li></ul>   <ul> <li>Articulate aesthetic and practical issues arising within film composition or game audio.</li> <li>Understand the technologies and tools necessary for working in the creative industry.</li></ul> <ul> <li>Demonstrate the development of a more advanced, creative and specialised response to a topic in the context of a field of study.</li> <li>Apply composition skills developed through earlier composition courses in the curriculum to practical situations.  </li></ul> <ul> <li style="margin-left: 36pt;"> Demonstrate enhanced skill in using technology, should they choose to use it, when realising specific compositional outcomes</li> <li style="margin-left: 36pt;"> Prepare and deliver a presentation on a negotiated aspect of the module as a formative experience toward completing a piece of work</li></ul> <ul> <li>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.</li> <li>Thinking through challenges in a logical way and applying skills to realise creative solutions.</li></ul> Problem solving Find solutions to detailed compositional challenges for creating an original music score for a film, including micro-timing, visual and musical narrative structure, harmonic and melodic techniques, instrumental and electro-acoustic considerations and stylistic options. Other Demonstrate skills in sound design and editing musical sound for extended scenes.    0 Other 100% <figure class="table" style="width:500px;"><table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1"><tbody><tr><td>Assessment Task</td><td>Formative or Summative</td><td>Weighting</td></tr><tr><td>Film Music: original music integrated into a non-musical, extant soundtrack</td><td>Summative</td><td>100%</td></tr></tbody></table></figure>   <table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="width:500px;"> <tbody> <tr> <td>Supervisions, in-class discussion, scheduled presentation of work, ongoing verbal feedback to student interaction and seminars.</td> <td>Formative</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Written feedback on coursework assessment</td> <td>Summative</td> </tr> </tbody></table>  MUSC20072 Interactive Media Composition Environments Pre-Requisite Compulsory MUSC20061 Fixed and Electroacoustic Composition Pre-Requisite Compulsory MUSC20321 Instrumental Composition Pre-Requisite Compulsory MUSC20362 Vocal Composition Pre-Requisite Compulsory MUSC30540 Pre req: MUSC20321+MUSC20362 or MUSC20061+ MUSC2072Pre-requisites Film Music: MUSC20321+ MUSC20362 or MUSC20061 + MUSC20072  N  FILM MUSIC OPTION:<ul><li class="CxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;">Brown, Royal S. Overtones and Undertones (California, 1994)</li><li class="CxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;">Bryan Key, W  Media Sexploitation (Signet, 1976, pp 98-145)</li><li class="CxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;">Burt, G  The Art of Film Music (Northeastern Uni Press, 1994)</li><li class="CxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;">Chion, Michel  Audio-vision: Sound on Screen (trans. Gorbman)</li><li class="CxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;">Gorbman, Claudia, Unheard Melodies: Narrative Film Music (Bloomington, 1987)</li><li class="CxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;">Murch, W  In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing (Silman-James Press, 2001)</li><li class="CxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;">Pasquariello, N Sound of Movies: Interviews with Creators of Feature Sound Tracks (San Francisco, 1996)</li></ul>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.    Lectures 22 Practical classes & workshops 3 0 175