Pinterest Board Spotlight: 39+ Film Scoring Links for Music Teachers

Why Pinterest?

I’ve been using the virtual pinboard site Pinterest for more than 18 months now and it’s proven to be the easiest way to collect and share links in workshops and during online courses. Links (known on Pinterest as “pins”) are gathered together in my user-defined categories such as Best iPad Apps for Music Teachers, Books I Recommend, Remixing and Film Scoring. On Pinterest, each of these categories is referred to as a “board”.

If you’d like some more background information about Pinterest and the way I’m using it, head over to my earlier article Using Pinterest To Share Music Technology Links

Connect with me

If you have a Pinterest account where you collect music technology links, feel free to share it in the comments section below. It would be good to connect with others!

You can follow my Pinterest account here, or by clicking on button below:

Katie Argyle | Midnight Music

Pinterest Board Spotlight

I’ll be highlighting my Pinterest boards on a regular basis and I’m going to start the ball rolling with my Film Scoring collection of links and resources.

Three of my favourite pins

It was difficult to choose just three, but here goes… You can link on the images below to visit the pin (click on the pin a second time to visit the actual link – the source). If you have a Pinterest account, you can use the Pin It button to add the link to one of your own boards.

1. Scary Mary

This is the video I show at the beginning of each film scoring workshop. A great way to demonstrate the effect of music on a scene (and a good way to showcase clever editing).

Midnight Music’s pin on Pinterest.

2. Downloadable Wallace and Grommit videos

The BBC made a series of Wallace and Grommit videos available for school film scoring projects. They have no music, but the dialogue has been left in. You can also download a script and a storyboard to help students with their project planning.

3. Back Of The Mic

Hilarious behind-the-scenes look at a radio show. Useful video for showing students that you may need to think outside the square when it comes to creating sound effects and foley.

Midnight Music’s pin on Pinterest.

Follow this board (and others!)

If you’d like to keep track of what I pin to my film scoring board, click the See It On Pinterest button below and then follow the board with your own account. If you don’t have a Pinterest account, go and get one – it’s free!

Follow Midnight Music’s board Film Scoring Resources on Pinterest.

Do you have any film scoring-related links to suggest?

Do you know of a film scoring link I should add to this board? Let me know if the comments below.

7 Comments

  1. jenny November 27, 2014 at 7:01 pm - Reply

    Hi Katie, Unfortunately the Wallace & Grommit Films coring project has not been available for some years. There may be another resource that teachers can access more successfully?

    • Katie November 28, 2014 at 1:47 pm - Reply

      Hi Jenny,
      The Wallace and Grommit resources are still available – just click through to the website from that Pinterest link and you’ll arrive on the downloads page. The page has been “archived” (ie. it is no longer updated by the BBC) but is still there in case teachers want to download the film clips.
      – Katie

  2. April Woolley December 10, 2015 at 1:10 am - Reply

    I am a music teacher and have started teaching some film scoring using mixcraft I have the hardest time finding clips that the students can use to put in thier own soundtracks. The Wallace and Gromit link is fantastic but its only sound no video andy suggestions

    • Katie December 10, 2015 at 12:46 pm - Reply

      Hi April – the Wallace and Grommit page definitely has videos on it. It’s the link that ends in MP4. Instead of clicking on it to open it in a new browser (which sometimes just plays the audio portion – I’m guessin that’s what you did?), you might need to right-click on the link instead and choose “Save link as” or something similar. You’ll then be able to save the file to your desktop. When you open and play it it should show the video.
      – Katie

  3. […] brand of IWB, all is not lost. Film Scoring Resources on Pinterest | Film, Music and Soundtrack. 39+ Film Scoring Links For Music Teachers | Midnight Music. Why Pinterest? I’ve been using the virtual pinboard site Pinterest for more than 18 months now […]

  4. Maria September 19, 2019 at 11:24 am - Reply

    Hello Katie,

    I’m trying to download the wallace and Grommit page through archives, but I’m having a lot of trouble. I would really like to download them for my students at my school. Would it be possible for you to provide a new link?

    • Katie October 17, 2019 at 8:15 am - Reply

      Hi Maria – I did some checking but it looks like the BBC have archived that page completely now and it’s no longer available. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to find an alternative link. I’m not sure if you’re a member of my online community – the Midnight Music Community – or not? I have a collection of videos in there that are short and suitable for film scoring projects with students. If you’re not already a member and you’re interested in joining here is a link to a special offer page. We’d love to have you!

Leave A Comment

You might also like...

Introducing

The Midnight Music Community

An online community where music tech professional development, lesson ideas, and accountability come together.
Ultimate Free Music Tech Resource Guide Guide 2023/24

Download Now for FREE...

The Ultimate Music Tech Resources Guide for 2023-2024

Claim your copy of our annual guide to free music technology resources, designed especially for music teachers. Discover interactive music websites, software, productivity tools, and assessment resources you can use in your music classroom for free.

Follow Me on Social Media

PRIVACY POLICY

This is the Privacy Policy for the Midnight Music website located at www.midnightmusic.com (“Site”).

The Site is operated by Midnight Music Pty Ltd ABN 87 619 652 603 (“Midnight Music” or “Company” or “we” or “us”).

Midnight Music understands the importance of protecting your personal information and undertakes to adhere to this privacy policy at all times to ensure your personal information is effectively safeguarded.

Information you provide to us

The Site provides various places for users to provide information. We collect information that users provide by filling out forms on the Site, communicating with us via contact forms, responding to surveys, search queries on our search feature, providing comments or other feedback, providing information when ordering a product or service via the Site, and other circumstances where collecting personal information is reasonable and permitted by the Laws of the State of Victoria, Australia.

We use information you provide to us to deliver the requested product and/or service, to improve our overall performance, and to provide you with offers, promotions, and information.

Information we collect through automatic data collection technology

As you navigate through the Site, we may use automatic data collection technologies including Google Analytics to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. This will generally include information about your location, your traffic pattern through our Site, and any communications between your computer and our Site. Among other things, we will collect data about the type of computer you use, your Internet connection, your IP address, your operating system, and your browser type.

The information we collect automatically is used for statistical data and will not include personal information. We use this data to improve our Site and our service offerings. To the extent that you voluntarily provide personal information to us, our systems will associate the automatically collected information with your personal information.

Use of cookies and pixels

Similar to other commercial websites, our Site utilises a standard technology called “cookies” and server logs to collect information about how our site is used. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our site, and the websites visited just before and just after our own, as well as your IP address.

A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

The Company reserves the right to use technological equivalents of cookies, including social media pixels. These pixels allow social media sites to track visitors to outside websites so as to tailor advertising messages users see while visiting that social media website. The Company reserves the right to use these pixels in compliance with the policies of the various social media sites.​

How we manage personal information

Midnight Music undertakes to take all commercially reasonable steps to ensure that all personal information collected by us is accurate, up-to-date, complete and stored securely. When your personal information is no longer required for the purposes which Midnight Music uses personal information, all commercially reasonable steps will be undertaken to securely destroy that information.

How your personal information will be used

We use personal information for purposes of presenting our Site and its contents to you, providing you with information, providing you with offers for products and services, providing you with information about your subscriptions and products, carrying out any contract between you and the Company, administering our business activities, providing customer service, and making available other items and services to our customers and prospective customers.
From time-to-time, we may use the information you provide to us to make you offers to purchase products and services provided by third parties in exchange for a commission to be paid to us by such third parties. Should you opt to take part in such promotions, the third parties will receive your information.

Disclosure of your information

Midnight Music considers personal information we collect about you to be confidential and will not disclose such information to third parties except in the following circumstances:

  • Where you have consented to your personal information being provided to a third party;
  • Where Midnight Music is required by law to disclose your information; and
  • Gaining access to your personal information held by Midnight Music

Except in circumstances where access to your personal information may be denied by the Privacy Act or other Law of the State of Victoria, Australia, your personal information will be provided to you upon request.

Visitors’ General Data Protection Regulation rights

If you are within the European Union, you are entitled to certain information and have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). These include the following:

  • We will retain the any information you choose to provide to us until: (a) you ask us to delete the information; (b) we decide to cease using our existing data providers; or (c) the Company decides that the value in retaining the data is outweighed by the costs of retaining it.
  • You have the right to request access to your data that the Company stores and the rights to either rectify or erase your personal data.
  • You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of your data.
  • You have the right to object to the processing of your data and the right to the portability of your data.
  • To the extent that you provided consent to the Company’s processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based upon consent that occurred prior to your withdrawal of consent.
  • You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over issues related to the General Data Protection Regulation.
  • We require only the information that is reasonably required to enter into a contract with you. We will not require you to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into a contract with us.

Contact us

Should you have any queries in relation to the above or require further information regarding the Privacy Policy please contact us:

Midnight Music Pty Ltd
PO Box 219
Glen Waverley
Victoria 3150
AUSTRALIA

Email address: support@midnightmusic.com