I decided to remix the "Storytelling Through Photography" canvas. When I looked through the post I thought to myself that music in films is a trade that is seldom looked into. I thought of all the melodies and songs that almost as popular as the film itself. The first couple that came to mind were Jaws, Psycho, Harry Potter, and King Kong. Teaching music through the lens of photography, storyboards, and film was a novel idea to me. The actual unit would include lessons on listening, how music evokes emotions, performance techniques, theory lessons, and compositional techniques.
The songs that are included in the movie Toy Story work symbiotically between music, lyrics, and video. They all evoke the message that is trying to be conveyed beautifully as is the case in the video provided from Toy Story 2. The video in the original canvas I kept because it would be used as a connection between physical art and the aural art. Creating music is much like the storyboards presented, there are a lot of ideas that circle around the same idea. The same way these storyboards tell a story, the music is equal in capturing the mood, much like the movie King Kong where the composer Max Steiner perfected the mimicking of music to what is visual. Being a composer, arranging music to fit a mood, and listening to music critically are some of the actual skills that the music practitioner uses actively.This unit would help transfer what they are learning to the real world as well.
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