Ask Prospero anything...thread

[Stavros]

Sorry... no. Technically Cockneys have to have been born within the area where you could hear the sound of Bow bells (a church in east london borough of Bow).

To be precise, St Mary-le-Bow on Cheapside in the City of London, and not further east in Whitechapel or Bethnal Green.

[robertlouis]

To be precise, St Mary-le-Bow on Cheapside in the City of London, and not further east in Whitechapel or Bethnal Green.

You are correct, Stavros. A very fine church which puts on free organ recitals at lunchtimes - spent many a blissful lunch hour there when I worked in the city

[Prospero]

I stand, as ever,corrected by my venerable and learned friend.

[Stavros]

Prospero, as someone who has made films, I noted in one of the extras to Hunger the interviewer asked Laura Hastings-Smith what does a producer do?

We can rate actors and directors quite easily because their work is so immediately obvious, but how do you rate a producer, and who do you think have been the best producers of films? Fictional and documentary.

[Prospero]

I will respond to your question later Stavros. Not got that much time now. Producers, in short, pull the whole thing together - raise money, hire directors, read scripts, oversee budget of projects and much more. They're unsung heroes. (I would say that as a producer) Then there are executive producers.... and associate producers etc. But their is no precise job description - and many documentaries are made by producer-directors, many producers are entirely hands-off people, others very hands-on (go on location shoots re-writ scripts, write scrpts, do research etc etc). More anon.