read the chapters and give a description of each concept, I will provide the book.
Chapter One:
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Know the various functions of film scoring:
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1. to intensify or relax the pace of a film
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2. to reflect emotion
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3. to create “unspoken” thoughts of a character or unseen implications of a situation
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4. to parallel or underscore the action (Mickey mouse the action)
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5. to create atmosphere of time and place
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6. to create comedy
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7. to provide unity or coherence to the story (use of leitmotif)
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8. to be used as source music (diegetic music)
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9. when music plays against the action
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10. to speed up slow scenes or slow down scenes that are too fast
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11. to be used as a neutral background filler (wall to wall music)
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You don’t have to know the various films used in Chapter one
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Know the following terms:
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ostinato
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wordless choir
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Mickey mousing
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leitmotif
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Diegetic music
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Non-diegetic music
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Wall to wall music
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The use of silence
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Chapter Two
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Know what a producer and director does
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Know the 5 types of directors
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Note that this is a very political business, “It’s who you know that counts”.
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Know the 3 stages of film editing:
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1. assembly cut
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2. rough cut
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3. fine or locked cut
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Know the definitions for trims, outs, and answer prints
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Know what a temp track is and know the 4 reasons why we use temp tracks
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Look over notes on 2001:A Space Odyssey on
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Know what we mean by a spotting session and the 2 most obvious decisions made at a spotting session
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Know these terms:
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Music cue
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Spotting notes
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Timing notes
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Know the 9 items that can add to the music budget on a major movie
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1. the style of music and its difficulty
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2. the number of studio musicians needed to perform the music
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3. the amount of music
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4. the use of source music
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5. the recording time on the scoring stage
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6. pre-recording
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7. mixing
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8. the use of orchestrators
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9. the use of music copyists
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What is a package deal?
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Know the 3 performing rights societies(ASCASP, BMI, and SESAC)
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Look what the book says about orchestrators
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Look what the book says about music supervisors, and film composers
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Know these terms:
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Cartage fee
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Session
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Doubling
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Most film composers can compose an average of 2 to 3 minutes of useable music every workday.
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Before the 1960’s composers had about 10 weeks to compose and record their music. Today, it is more like 3 to 6 weeks for a composer to compose and record a score.
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You do NOT have to know about the 3 composers interviewed on pages 33-42.
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Look at what book says about concert hall composers vs. film composers
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Look at what book says about the movie trailer composer and movie trailers
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Know the 4 factors to consider in developing the concept for the score
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Know the importance of main title music
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Know the 6 methods used for music to picture synchronization:
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1. Punch and streamer method
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2. The stopwatch method
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3. The click track method
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4. SMPTE timecode
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5. Wild recording
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6. Tracking
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Know terms:
1. Picture cueing
2. Free timing
3. Newman system
4. Variable click track
5. Music editor
6. Side-Line
7. Booth person
Know 3 types of recording for movies (Before, During, and After).
Know the following terms:
1. M & E track or M & E stem
2. Looping, ADR
3. Room tone
4. Foley artist, foley walker
5. Production sound
6. Sound designer
7. Dialogue mixer (“captain in charge”)
8. Sound effects mixer
9. Music mixe
Chapter Three
Know the following terms:
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1. Kinetoscope
2. Lumiere Brothers
3. Chronophone
4. Single shot films
5. Nickelodeon
6. Soundman
Know the early uses of music with the cinema(1. Cover up noise of projector and 2. Convey mood and add emphasis to emotions on silent screen).
Know where cinema was first shown. Why was THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY significant?
Know in what country did the first original score appear? (France).
Look at what the book says about THE BIRTH OF A NATION and D. W. Griffith, and the composer Joseph Carl Breil
Look at BEN-HUR and what the book says about composers William Axt and David Mendoza Look at BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN in book and info on movie theaters of silent era
Know 4 types of music used during silent era:
1. Piano improvisation
2. Use of published musical extracts
3. Use of pre-arranged scores
4. Use of original scores……first appeared in France in 1908, but did not become popular until mid 1920’s.
Chapter Four
Know the 2 early sound systems (Sound on film Phonofilm and Sound on disc Vitaphone)
Know Lee De Forest
Know DON JUAN (First feature length sound film without dialogue). THE JAZZ SINGER (First feature film to contain some spoken dialogue, generally considered the first Hollywood musical, and the film that launched the sound era).
Know the impact of sound on movies
Know terms:
1. microphone boom
2. camera “blimp”
3. studio syste
4. star system
5. contract player
6. Look at info on Warner Bros.
Know LIGHTS OF NEW YORK (First all-talking sound feature) and BLACKMAIL (England’s 1st sound film
You do NOT have to know info on individual studios
Know 2 primary approaches to music in early sound films
Know info about FRANKENSTEIN p. 85 and Busby Berkeley and the Hollywood musical
Chapter Five (The 1930s)
Look at notes on Max Steiner, Franz Waxman and Alfred Newman and Herbert Stothart
Look at notes for King Kong, The Bride of Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights,The Wizard of Oz and Gone With The Wind.
The Fox String sound
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Chapter Six (The 1940s)
Look at notes for the movie Suspicion
Look at notes for Miklos Rozsa, film noir, The Lost Weekend, Spellbound the theremin, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, The Sea Hawk, King’s Row, Bernard Herrmann, Citizen Kane and The Killers.
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