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SCORM Quiz
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True. In films you can't use long pieces of music like sonatas, for example. The musical themes must be short to keep up with what is happening in the film. Musical themes or melodies usually change fast during films.
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The orchestration of a piece of film music is when the composer decides how to organise all the musical instruments for them to play together.
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Background music (non diegetic music) is often referred to as underscoring and it adds to the mood of the scene.
EXTRA ACTIVITY
Here are some of the functions of film music numbered one to six. Read them and then look at the examples below in the SCRAMBLED LIST and put them in the correct order (one to six) so that the examples match these functions.
1) Help action progress
2) Add to the impact of a scene
3) Create a mood or an atmosphere
4) Help to establish a time or a place
5) Help join together changes between scenes
6) Accompany a certain character and tell the audience when he or she will appear
Scrambled List
Match these examples to the functions described above.
- Loud trumpets sound as we see Roman soldiers.
- Soft, peaceful music sounds as we see people sleeping.
- A rock falls and there is a loud bang on the percussion.
- Menacing music sounds when Dracula arrives.
- After the characters go to sleep, the new scene shows the sun rising and the music imitates birds singing.
- A lion is running after a man and the music gets louder and louder and louder.
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