Module manager: Dr Ian Sapiro
Email: i.p.sapiro@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
Competence in music composition (though there is no requirement to be able to read/write musical notation).
MUSS2824 Film-Score Creation and Production
This module is not approved as a discovery module
On this module you will engage with the processes and practices of creating music and sound for screen media. You’ll be supported to develop your creative and technological skills and bring together theory and practice, enabling you to situate your work within relevant practical, academic and industrial contexts. Please note that you must compose on this module, but do not have to read or produce musical notation. Please note this is an optional module and runs subject to enrolments. If a low number of students choose this module, then the module may not run and you may be asked to choose another module.
This module aims to give you a secure grounding in a range of practices and processes that underpin the creation of music and sound for screen media, alongside some of the technologies that may be used to carry out these activities. You will learn to engage critically with models of practice alongside scholarly sources to inform and defend the decision-making that underpins your practical screen-media work.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Situate screen music and sound with respect to appropriate analytical contexts and critical perspectives.
2. Analyse connections between theory and practice, and between music and other disciplines.
3. Apply appropriate approaches and techniques to the creation of screen music and sound.
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
4. Independently identify and analyse sources to inform, debate and defend scholarly and practice-based decisions.
5. Create and publish content in appropriate multimedia formats.
Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supervision | 1 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Lecture | 8 | 2 | 16 |
| Practical | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Seminar | 10 | 1 | 10 |
| Private study hours | 172.8 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 27.2 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
All seminars will be interactive, dynamic sessions, though they may take different forms – such as discussion sessions or practical workshops – depending on their focus. Regular discussions within all seminars (and lectures) will provide opportunities for continuous feedback and monitoring of progress, as well as preparation for assessment and the building of confidence. Discussion-based seminars in particular will support students to situate their creative work critically (LO1), and to relate their creative practice to perspectives from industry, academic research, and fields beyond music as appropriate (LO2). Workshop-based seminars will be ‘safe spaces’ in which students can learn about and experiment with relevant technologies that may be used in the production of their scores (SLO5). Additionally, each student will attend a tutorial designed to support their work in progress (LO3, SLO4). This is deliberately constrained in length to replicate the authentic time-pressured environment of the screen-music industry and support focused discussion and feedback.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Music for screen media and supporting information | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
Check the module area in Minerva for your reading list
Last updated: 21/03/2025
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