Music in Film and Television

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• discuss the various techniques and conventions associated with musical accompaniment to film and television programmes.
• trace the impact of production processes and traditions on film and television music formats.
• critically examine particular uses of music in film and television.
• evaluate and draw upon a range of scholarly and audiovisual sources in order to formulate, structure and justify your own arguments.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• work productively with others and give an effective oral presentation using a variety of visual aids that engages and informs its audience and generates further debate.
• select, organise and deploy ideas and information in order to formulate cogent arguments and express them effectively in written and oral forms.
• analyze the details of audiovisual texts.
• work independently, making effective use of library, archival and Internet resources and demonstrating efficient time management.
• demonstrate the ability to listen to, contribute to, and lead discussion in group environments of varying sizes.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• listen analytically to music in film that is often not an object in the foreground of the film experience.
• transcribe sequences of film with music into a tabulated format.
• describe the processes central to music in film and the soundtrack more generally.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• various traditional forms of music and the moving image, including scores for dramatic films, film musicals and pop video.
• some techniques and approaches that might be used in the analysis of music in film and television.
• the history and traditions of production in film and television music, particularly those of European and American film and television.
• the dominant theoretical approaches that have been taken to music and the moving image.
• the aesthetic affordances of music in combination with the moving image, as illustrated by certain key audiovisual texts.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.