May+Movie+Madness

= May Movie Madness  = = = = Exploring How Music Is Used in Movies to Create Mood =

Music is important in movies. Music creates a mood for the movie. Music helps create emotions in the movie watchers-- giving us clues to feel sad, scared, happy, silly, dreamy, and more.

Alice in Wonderland is a story of a girl who falls down a rabbit hole into another world. Listen to the music from two different mo versions of Alice in Wonderland and discover ways that they are different and the same.

=Discussion:=

1) What kind of mood does each piece of music make you feel? 2) How does the music make you feel this way? Consider things such as the music's tempo, instruments, rhythm, lyrics, melody, and volume. 3) What kind of world do you think Alice will encounter based on the music?

=Activity:=

Imagine you are the set designer for the movies. After listening to the music, what would the set look like for these two different movies? Divide a piece of paper with a line down the middle. On one half, draw the 2011 inspired set. On the second half, draw the 1951 set. How can you use color and lines and images to help set a mood that matches the music?

Alice's Theme, by Danny Elfman
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**Alice's Theme lyrics** Oh, Alice, dear where have you been? So near, so far or in between? What have you heard what have you seen? Alice, Alice, please, Alice!

Oh, tell us are you big or small To try this one or try them all It's such a long, long way to fall Alice, Alice, oh, Alice

How can you know this way not that? You choose the door you choose the path Perhaps you should be coming back Another day, another day

And nothing is quite what is seems You're dreaming are you dreaming, oh, Alice? (Oh, how will you find your way? Oh, how will you find your way?) (There's not time for tears today. There's no time for tears today.)

So many doors Alice, how did you choose So much to gain so much to lose So many things got in your way No time today, no time today Be careful not to lose your head Just think of what the doormouse said Alice!

Did someone pull you by the hand? How many miles to Wonderland? Please tell us so we'll understand Alice, Oh, Alice

A World of my Own, by Sammy Fain and Bob Hilliard
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Lyrics: Cats and rabbits Would reside in fancy little houses And be dressed in shoes and hats and trousers In a world of my own

All the flowers Would have very extra special powers They would sit and talk to me for hours When I'm lonely in a world of my own

There'd be new birds Lots of nice and friendly howdy-do birds Everyone would have a dozen bluebirds Within that world of my own

I could listen to a babbling brook And hear a song that I could understand I keep wishing it could be that way Because my world would be a Wonderland

[|1999 Hallmark Musical Version of Alice in Wonderland]-- music starts at 2:25 of video