Description: (EP=Eddie Prévost) Film changes interchanges from bw to colour (all I/Vs in bw)
00:05: title card – ‘No amplification or electronic enhancement of any kind has been applied to the music in this film”.
Pan down to shadow of figure beating instrument. 00:40 – cymbals pan up to MS of Eddie beating cymbals. V/O EP asks people to think about instruments as if they haven’t seen them before. 01:09 – CU scraping large flat pan and holding soap dish. 01:22 EP scraping drum/cymbal with a bow.
EP talks about bringing people into an important ritual and “for me it’s the most compelling thing I do...it informs my existence”.
EP feels that people have endless capacity for creativity.
Various shots of EP playing and concentrating.
02:41 Title: Eddie Prévost’s Blood. A film by Stewart Morgan
02:48 I/V MS with EP talks about growing up in Bermondsey, bombsites, docks. Lived in 2 rooms in Albany Road. Forebears master silkweavers.
03:11 – Old Kent Road, street signs ‘Albany Road’, ‘East Street’
03:16 – L/A Albany Road, terraced houses
03:34 BCU – EP
04:12 – EP setting up instruments in studio w/ VO – not always wanting to be on tour but often it’s “where the best things happen”.
05:12 – C/A BCU male musician rocking back and forth playing sax (improv music session)
05:37 WS EP playing snare drums and various GVs + CUs of EP and male musician playing
06:39 – MS EP laughing behind drums
09:03 – EP & musician stop playing – long pause before EP thanks musician
09:20 – applause in b/g fade to black
09:30 – Pan LR street sign ‘Tunnel Road’
09:36 – Ext. Brunel museum bldg.
09:40 – TS looking down on EP behind drums in museum space
10:00 – MS EP using bow to scrap against large flat pan with VO talking about the sound instrument makes
10:21 – I/V EP how to explore with music with the instruments at hand
c/a EP fixing device, metal bowl
11:22 – MS EP moving vibrating ball across large drum and experimenting = V/O “child’s play”
12:48 – LS children on climbing frame w/ V/O EP talking about play and learning and similarity to playing on stage, also how important for cognitive development
13:41 – Ext LS Addey and Stanhope old School building
13:46 – EP walking through corridor
13:49 – Pan L to door of Headmaster’s study
13:56 – EP entering old school gym hall
14:00 – I/V EP recalling secondary school choices and visiting schools. Mother saying “you won’t get into this school because you haven’t got a father with a bowler hat next to you”. C/As of EP prepping instruments. EP talks about school life at Addey and Stanhope school.
14:27 – School group photo from 1954 of Addey and Stanhope – EP recalling some students.
14:40 – GVs musicians tuning up in hall
14:51 – EP looking at group photo and picks out ‘Leslie Bowler’ (?) whose parents introduced him to jazz.
15:37 – Head of school introduces EP to head of music, Matt.
16:09 – BCU EP playing instrument w/ C/As of I/V musing over what old music master would have thought of his music, laughter.
16:52 – Group 3-shot musicians in hall
17:40 – group 4-shot ditto
Various shots focussing on each musicians concentrated performance
19:28 – I/V talkings about music he plays is not just banging a stick but about “gradations” of application, pressure etc. EP agrees with Cardew who said “we are searching for sounds”
21:27 – C/A music engineers with Macbook
23:02 – EP V/O talkings about everybody going through musical journey together and that there is something of the experience that “you take with you”
23:33 CREDITS
25:38 end.
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