"The General" is a public domain silent film from 1927 featuring Buster Keaton. It's storyline is developed enough to make it a good pick for a silent film scoring project. Students will be able to apply the essential functions of film scoring and include Foley and perhaps some dialog as well.
This is an excellent resource for researching motion pictures in the public domain. There are hyperlinks to stream or download most of the films in high quality formats. There are also forums, FAQs, and other resources.
A few public domain films available for download in QuickTime format. These films can be used to teach film scoring, video editing, Foley, and other technology topics.
"Wings" is a silent film and was the first movie to win an Oscar.
Excellent examples of the use of leitmotif in television shows, feature films, video games, etc.
Video trailers for many of the latest movie releases. Apple allows you to download these trailers to your iPod. These are great teaching tools for film music, video production and related topics.
Use this online interactive quiz as an icebreaker at the beginning of a lesson on film music, music composition, or another music-related topic.
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Video clips from the 2007 Young Film Composers Competition finalists.
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"The General" is a public domain silent film from 1927 featuring Buster Keaton. It's storyline is developed enough to make it a good pick for a silent film scoring project. Students will be able to apply the essential functions of film scoring and include Foley and perhaps some dialog as well.
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