Flute Playing with Mark Thomas
Flute Playing with Mark Thomas
ON PREVIEW CASSETTE #991477 Fade in on Mark Thomas playing the flute in a room with classic flute player painting on the wall over the fireplace. FI titles. Mark sits down, and cut to ECU Mark: he puts tghe flute down and starts his lecture by pulling cleaning rod and soft cloth out of the case and threads the cloth through the cleaning rod. He reverses the rod, and camera goes to ECU mark on the cleaning rod. He shows how this mark should appear in the blow-hole, to tune the flute properly. Mark picks up light weight flannel cloth to polish it. Use no abrasive, he warns. He polishes the head joint with the cloth. He picks up flute body and shows the fingering mechanism. He points out lubrication points. He next inserts the head joint into the body. CU Mark's face. He adjust head joint and aligns the instrument. Pull back to LS, and he leans over to hit A-440 pitch tone bar. He shows how to adjust the pitch. He assembles the foot joint to the body. CU his fingers holding the flute properly. Cut to painting of flute player as camera moves to show how Mark matches the boy in the painting. LS as he stands, puts the flute down, and sits. He demonstrates an exercise--hands on legs forces him to use the diaphgragm muscles. ECU his face. MS as he explains breath control. Title EMBOUCHURE supers, as Mark explains, pointing to his lips. He blows through small straw to practice. ECU lips with and without straw. MS as he puts down straw, move to ECU his face as he points to jaw position. Finger across bottom lip. His hands demonstrate the air flow. Full head: he touches upper lip and then bottom lip, and then pracrtices with finger on lower lip. Shows chin and jaw functions, re the flute blowhole. CU his mouth with two fingers at corners; demo of mouth and flute embouchure. LS as he removes head joint and places it to his lips. Replaces the head joint. Puts flute down. Mark stands up and moves to flute display on the wall. He explains attack, using the word PURE (supered) and shortens it to PU, then to DU, or TU, each illustrated. He illustrrates with yawn, the relaxed jaw. Picks up flute, and plays 4th line of D natural. Cautions against moving head or flute out of line. He sits and places flute on left shoulder, and looks at fingering chart. CU face. Mark now demonstrates several flutes. first the C, which he has been holding, then the bass flute in C, the alto in G, the little E flat soprano and the piccolo in C. Mark stands at fireplace, moves toward camera, discusses single and double tongue atack. Art work illustrates this, with staffs, and finally the triple tongue, TU, DU etc. Back to Mark holding flute, illustrating flutter tonguing. He demonstrates. VIBRATO title as Mark explains that this is frosting to the cake. He plays tone without vibrato; then with vibrato. Illustrates diaphrargm support and vocal box use. Mark coughs into flute, then plays connected crutch, and increases the tempo. Camera zooms to metronome at 72. ECU Mark face, MS. He plays a sample of "America". Still on vibrato. Cut to statue of the god Pan, the first famous flutist. Claude Debussy's SYRINX music placed beside Pan. Final statement by Mark, and ECU his face. He turns to fireplace and lights the fire, as end titles come on. Fire starts, he picks up flute, and plays the Claude Debussey piece. Camera closes in on PAN and the fire in the BG, and fades to black. 900' 16mm color sound film on gray plastic reel in 1200' brown plastic shipping case with "W.T.Armstrong FLUTE PLAYING: A Study with MARK THOMAS: and Frink Film Studio" embossed on the case. Frink (FFV-5) has A and B originals, overs, mag and opt tracks and ancillary materials. (This print is somewhat faded, but not too bad. In any case, the A & B rolls are NOT FADED)