Music dramaturgy in animated movies 2

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Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The aim of the study in this semester is to introduce students to the so-called music components, the basic building blocks of all music and to teach them how to perceive these characteristics and use them in the selection of music or presenting music to the music composer.

The main emphasis is placed on rhythm, meter and tempo. Students should learn to recognize primarily meter, not confuse it with rhythm and use it correctly in animation. They should also learn to prepare and use the so-called blind score and become acquainted with the mathematical models for calculating tempo, frame position and meter or otehr parameters.

Students should be able to orient themselves in the whole film sound process.

Mode of study:

1. Lectures

2. Examples and their analyses

3. Practical exercises

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

It is important that the students use all knowledge from the previous semester in the areas of tone characteristics and music theory basics.

Recommended optional programme components:

No prerequisites.

Course contents:

1. Effect of music material. Music components - a general definition. Melody, harmony - in detail, the significance of both components and the prinicples of their beginnings and practical use in music dramaturgy.

2. Music components - meter and rhythm. Definition of meter, listing of types, historical gensis, link to animation, striking moments in experiments in their determination, listening to recordings, tapping out (rhytms), analyses. Highlighted important knowledge of meter for animation in music. Concepts - measure, bar lines, measure characteristics, scores, part notation, musical scores.

3. Music components - meter. listening to recordings. tapping out rhythms, analysis. Tempo, link to meter, link to animation, mathematical models for establishing tempo or „Frame position“ in animation for a given music sample - introduction.

4. Music components - meter and tempo. Mathematical models for establishing the tempo or „Frame position“ in animation for a given music sample - continued, rehearsing. Students acquire terminology for calculating the tempo in knowing the number of measures and meter for the whole length of an example and for calculating the FP (Frame position) in knowing the tempo and calculating the duration of a given example etc.

5. Music components - Others. A listing with brief characteristics.

Phonism, Photism - definitions and examples.

Enjoyment adjectives for describing music - warmth, taste, sight, touch, emotion, space, time, form.

6. Animation to music. Preparations for animation forms for so called blind scores. Demonstration of the genesis of a blind score for a specific music illustration. Animation to a music score. Use of meter and tempo knowledge.

7. Introduction to Sonar and Soundforge software programs. Using both programs for establishing tempo, preparation of the blind score, testing the suitability of a music selection for a given scene, testing the correctness of synchronization of the meter and movement in a film, selection of suitable musical instruments, casting the dubbing voices, etc.

8. Demonstration of working processes through the accellerated „production“ of the sound track for a selected „silent“ film sample. Students select music themselves, play it or select noise and dialogue and place them on the tracks, mix them and deliver a „finished“ film with sound.

Recommended or required reading:

Ivo Bláha - Zvuková dramaturgie v AVD, AMU 2004

Luděk Zenkl - ABC hudební nauky, Editio Barenreiter, 2007

Ján Grečnár - Filmová hudba od nápadu po soundtrack, Ústav hudobnej vedy, Bratislava 2005

Scott Garrigus - Sonar, Computer Press, 2007

Scott Garrigus - SoundForge, Computer Press, 2005

The majority of the study material can be obtained by the students at the lectures. Of course, these exist in written form and are available to the students.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Lectures, study exercises, example analysis

Assessment methods and criteria:

Credit is awarded based on:

- participation in the lectures and exercises

- completion of the final test

- attendance

During the semester active participation is required in the lectures which is a condition for credit. The final is a written test and is comprised of two parts; Theory, focused largely on Music Dramaturgy an a practical part which verifies the students knowledge of music theory. The overal evaluation is made up of: participation in lectures - 20%, written test - 60% and attendance - 20%.

The conditions for successful completion of the course : Active participation in lectures, attendance of at least 50% and completion of the written test, which has point classification and for credit at least 40% of the points must be reached.

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Students who do not have at least 50% attendance must request supplementary exercises from the instructor, document their studies and justify their absence from the lectures. If this is not done they will not be permitted to sit the semester test and credit will not be awarded.

Further information:

No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Animovaná tvorba - magistr (qualification subject)