Jingles
Film making process
Spooky/Scary Music
Film Music
Jobs in Film Production
100
This is one way to make money as a jingle writer where the company owns your music after paying a fee. You can make more money upfront, but will not make any money after selling it.
What is a flat fee?
100
During this stage, the story is broken down into individual scenes and storyboards are created. The script is written and all the locations, props, cast members, costumes, special effects and visual effects are identified.
What is pre-production?
100
This musical interval is the smallest musical interval in western tonal music. It creates tension in a melody or harmony, like the theme from Jaws
What is half steps?
100
Double Jeopardy: This is the name for the type of sound in film whose source can be seen on screen and is a part of the action. For example, the music from the cantina scene in Star Wars is this because the instruments can be seen on screen.
What is diegetic sound/music?
100
This group of people is assembled during the pre-production process. It is made up of the production manager, director, producer, and writer
What is the production team?
200
This phrase refers to music used in commercials to sell things to the audience
What is jingle music?
200
During this stage, the director has started staging the different scenes and the filming begins! The actors have read through the script and developed their characters. The costumes and props have been made and are ready to use.
What is the production process?
200
This phrase describes a harmony that has many sounds and parts going on at once, creating confusion and uneasiness for the listener, like Tubular Bells from The Exorcist
What are chaotic harmonies?
200
This type of music refers to a genre of popular music from a certain time period. Typically it's used to refer to anything other classical music. Many times, movies use pop music to help create a sense of time and place or make plots in another time period seem more relatable.
What is pop music?
200
This person is involved with the planning o the film and making sure everything goes according to schedule
Who is the production manager?
300
This is another way to make money as a jingle writer. Each time their song is performed or used in a commercial, the composer is paid a sum of money paid.
What are royalties?
300
This stage of film making involves many different processes, like video editing, adding visual effects, CGI and sound effects, and the music. This is also when the temp track and film score is created.
What is post-production?
300
This phrase describes any sound that creates tension for the listener. This can be done using tritones (the devil's interval) or minor harmonies (they sound sad). We heard this in Danse Macabre on Halloween
What are dissonant harmonies?
300
This is a word that refers to music in a movie
What is film score?
300
This person is in charge of directing the lighting, staging, and cinematography for the film. They control a film's artistic and dramatic aspects. Ex: Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielburg
Who is the director?
400
These awards are given to companies for creating advertisements that showed the least amount of understand for that culture and/or country they are trying to sell to.
What are The Nova Awards?
400
Music editors create this for the film. It is made from an existing piece of music or audio to help guide the film score.
What is a temp track?
400
This sound is considered scary because it sounds like a scream, a natural reaction to fear. A popular example is the shower scene from Psycho
What are high pitched screeching sounds?
400
This word refers to a short melodic or rhythmic segment that represents a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a theme?
400
This person arranged the financing of the film. They usually help pay for the production and get their money back through ticket sales.
Who is the producer?
500
Double Jeopardy: Write down one of the following jingles. When the time is up, be ready to sing it: McDonald's "I'm lovin it" Celino and Barnes Injury attorneys 1-800-Cars4Kids
Groups that sing the jingle with all members participating will receive the points.
500
Dissonant harmonies, chaotic harmonies, half steps, and high pitched, screeching sounds are all factors that make music sound like this.
What is spooky or scary?
500
This word refers to sound in a movie whose source is NOT visible on the screen and has NOT been implied to be present in the action (Think of John Cena)
What is non-diegetic sound?
500
This person recreates (and sometimes creates) sound effects for movies.
Who is the foley artist?
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