AOS3- Film Music

Question 1

Name some music technology techniques?

Answer 1

Reverb, synthesisers

Question 2

What 3 types of film music are there?

Answer 2

Existing classical music that is felt suitable, Music written specifically, popular music of the time.

Question 3

What are the 2 categories (purposes) of film music?

Answer 3

Diegetic music and Non diegetic music

Question 4

Diegetic

Answer 4

Music contained within the action e.g. music playing on the tv or somebody singing to an audience in a club, characters watching tv

Question 5

Non diegetic

Answer 5

Background music supporting the on screen action e.g. to reinforce and reflect the drama. It isn’t heard by the on screen characters but by film audiences.

Question 6

Adagio/ Lento

Answer 6

Slowly

Question 7

Accelerando

Answer 7

Gradually getting faster

Question 8

Ritardando

Answer 8

Gradually getting slower

Question 9

Moderato/Andante

Answer 9

At a moderate pace/ walking pace

Question 10

Allegretto

Answer 10

Quite fast

Question 11

Allegro/vivace

Answer 11

Fast

Question 12

Presto

Answer 12

extremely fast

Question 13

pause

Answer 13

a rest in the music

Question 14

What effects is the music trying to achieve?

Answer 14

Love- steady beats
Violence-complex rhythms
Fear- slower rhythms to create a dark quality/ heart beat pulse
Sci-fi/alien-irregular time
Unease- syncopation, pauses, irregular rhythm
Action- Repetitive patterns, increasing shorter note values (dimunition) to give sense of quickening pace
Happiness- Quirky patterns, major tonality.

Question 15

Diatonic harmony?

Answer 15

Chords that relate to specific keys

Question 16

effect of arpeggio movement?

Answer 16

Produces intense feel