Year 5 Juilliard Film Music Project

Last term Year 5 had the exciting opportunity to be part of the 2024 Juilliard Film Music Project. This was open to all Nord Anglia schools around the world and was a fantastic way for the children to explore the world of film music and demonstrate their creativity.

The children were shown a short, funny animation called ‘Caminandes’ featuring a hungry llama and some peculiar penguins but with no music. Juilliard activities guided the children through the film music composition process, exploring the moods, emotions and sounds for different sections (cues) of the animation, through movement, rhythm and exploring different sounds and musical ideas. The children in each Year 5 class completed cue sheets with detailed information about the sounds, rhythms and moods they felt were best for each cue, as well as recording some of their ideas.

All of our Year 5 classes did a wonderful job and demonstrated great creativity and musical skill. We were delighted that one class, 5 Cobalt, were selected to be one of just 5 classes from across Nord Anglia schools around the world to have their ideas realised by a Juilliard composition student who took our cue sheet, video clips and audio clips and brought them to life.

Congratulations to all of our Year 5 students who really demonstrated great creativity in the ideas they came up with and we hope you will enjoy the final animation with music created by 5 Cobalt and Juilliard.

Please click the link below:

03 Cannon BIS Budapest Y5 Cobalt Caminandes FINAL 1 (wistia.com)

Jonathan Cannon

Primary Music Teacher