Movie Music

What movie is this music from?

• Beauty and the Beast

• The Lion King

Original music written specifically to accompany a film is called?

• Song

• Score

• Dialogue

• Track

Musical

• A movie in which singing and dancing play  an essential part.

• Movies that make the love story or the search for love the main plot focus.

• Movies that have imaginative and fantastic themes usually including magical and/or supernatural events and make-believe creatures and/or locations.

• Movies that are made up of a series of slightly different drawings of people, animals, and objects that make them move.

Music in a film can help change the...

• Environment

• Mood

• Characters

The music that is used in the film.

• screenplay

• subtitles

• soundtrack

• plot

With which statement would the author most likely agree?

• A film must use music created by expert musicians to be successful.

• Those who compose music for movies should be paid as much as a director.

• The music in a movie can fundamentally alter the meaning of a segment of the plot.

• Anyone with an interest in music can gain employment in the movie-music industry.

Which excerpt from the passage best supports the author’s claim that film composers must have a special personality?

• . . . work together quickly and be prepared to make changes to how their final product

  sounds.

• . . . can share computer files with the director during the production process.

• . . . might weave together four or five “themes,” or melodies.

• . . . to communicate ideas in the film with music.

Which sentence from the passage best supports the answer to part A?

• With this genre, all possible forms of music can come together to set the tone for each scene in a film.

• They may work with singers, instrumentalists, or even an entire orchestra.

• In earlier years of moviemaking, a film composer received a script, wrote music, and supervised a recording.

• However, there are plenty of film composers who are self-taught or who work entirely on computers.

What is the primary role of music in a movie?

• To entertain the audience

• To enhance the emotional impact

• To provide background noise

• To showcase musical talent

Which term describes a movie where music is a central element?

• Documentary

• Musical

• Thriller

• Comedy