# Transcript

George Fenton

Yes, I mean I think that nine times out of ten I think that movies scores, film scores are based on one or maybe two quite short musical ideas, maybe a theme or a rhythmic idea or something like that, and I suppose at its best it becomes a development of that, and at its worst I suppose it's a series of repeats of the same idea without really developing it.

Trevor Herbert

Right George, at this point I think we have to come clean and own up to the fact that I've set you a task in which you are asked to... prepare a fairly short melody with very simple harmonies specifically in C major, specifically with the three primary triads of C major: C, F and G. And we're going to see the effects that we can get by manipulating your skills in that particular context.