Educational Workshops - Composing for Film

Members of HarmonieBand work with groups of students to produce a score for a short silent film. Students discover ways of creating and structuring music for the images through practical improvisation and experimentation. Scores are usually notated in simple graphic form and performed by the students to accompany the film at the end of the project.

 

Formats for projects are flexible, ranging from a three-hour workshop to a three-day project, employing between 1 to 6 members of the band according to requirements.

 

Past projects have included:

The value of working with professional musicians of this calibre inspired pupils of all abilities to excel

2008

London Borough of Southwark Excellence in Cities.

 

Second residency this time leading a project based on Buster Keaton’s short film ‘Neighbors’.

2007

London Borough of Southwark Excellence in Cities

 

Six Members of HarmonieBand worked for three days with 15 teenagers identified as Gifted and Talented to create a score for Charlie Chaplin’s short film ‘The Adventurer’, culminating in a performance of their score to an audience of primary school children as part of a special event at the Greenwood Theatre.

2004

Midlands Art Centre (MAC)

 

Two members of HarmonieBand worked for two days with 17 teenagers from a Solihull school composing a score for Buster Keaton’s ‘One Week’ . They then gave a public performance of their score, preceding HarmonieBand’s presentation of Keaton’s ‘The General’.