Music Film Score Deep Listening

 1) Choose a film that has a film score (NOT A SOUNDTRACK). You should be able to find films in our library, the Oakland Public library downtown, Netflix, the Redbox, or at Rasputin’s for very little cost.

2) You will chart a timeline for the film you chose which depicts anytime music is used in the movie - in the first 30 minutes. You will also include what the music sounds like at that moment, which instruments are used, who is on the screen, and the action that is occurring at that moment in time. 

3) You will utilize your Elements of Music vocabulary in this assignment. 

4) Somewhere at the top of your assignment, you should include: film title, year released, the composer of the film score, and the director. 

5) Please make a timeline for the first 30 minutes of the film you choose – do not go over unless you really want to lol. You should write it like this EXAMPLE: 

5:10 – Indie and Marion share an on screen kiss in the night light, the piano is heard at this moment played in a presto tempo and with dotted rhythms. The pitches ascend as they rise. 

13:25 – audible saxophone in background - unsure of source? This is a muted timbre and it is in the higher range of the instrument. Occurs during the 

29:40 – Indie’s theme returns as he rescues Marion etc. It is a fanfare-like theme and includes the following: horn, brass, percussion, and winds. The style is slow paced (largo) and the dynamics register at pianissimo. Later, a crescendo occurs at 29:51.