Advice Required for Feature Film Script

[HumanVoice]

Hello Farmers and people of the land!

I am a screenwriter currently researching for my Masters Degree dissertation. I have a thriller set on a remote farm, currently the Lake District, and I am in need of guidance and advice....anything taken.

I need to know what URGENT tasks are done daily that would potentially cause issues if not completed. This is to tie into the main concept which is this...

Three criminals have fled a bank robbery to a remote area, potentially the lake district. After their car breaks down they invade a farmhouse and hold the family hostage. Aware that suspicions will rise if the farmer is not in the field one of the criminals assists the farmer and the pair connect and bond, like father and son. The inciting incident is extremely bad weather that causes the river to burst, like in 2017. They all have to work together to save the farm and protect the animals. After three days (or a week) two of the criminals flee, the remaining one hands him self in. After completing his sentence he returns to work on the farm.

I am at the very first stages of planning here, eventually I would like to volunteer my time for a week to a farm in exchange for first hand research. I would appreciate any advice regarding life on the farm or criticism related to concept.

Many Thanks
Mark Anthony Games

 

[Wooly]

Bond with a farmer after 3 days ...................... It's taken 20 years to bond with my farmer neighbours.

(Only joking if they are reading this.........it only took 17 years ! )

 

[HumanVoice]

Bond with a farmer after 3 days ...................... It's taken 20 years to bond with my farmer neighbours.

(Only joking if they are reading this.........it only took 17 years ! )

Bonding may be a strong word to be fair and well noted. Wayne has sympathy for Riley's plight ( A very messed up family, the crooks not the farmers)

 

[Wooly]

I can see why the crooks fleed or gave themselves up...................... those Lake District Farmers Wives are very formidable women.

 

[egbert]

Hello Farmers and people of the land!

I am a screenwriter currently researching for my Masters Degree dissertation. I have a thriller set on a remote farm, currently the Lake District, and I am in need of guidance and advice....anything taken.

I need to know what URGENT tasks are done daily that would potentially cause issues if not completed. This is to tie into the main concept which is this...

Three criminals have fled a bank robbery to a remote area, potentially the lake district. After their car breaks down they invade a farmhouse and hold the family hostage. Aware that suspicions will rise if the farmer is not in the field one of the criminals assists the farmer and the pair connect and bond, like father and son. The inciting incident is extremely bad weather that causes the river to burst, like in 2017. They all have to work together to save the farm and protect the animals. After three days (or a week) two of the criminals flee, the remaining one hands him self in. After completing his sentence he returns to work on the farm.

I am at the very first stages of planning here, eventually I would like to volunteer my time for a week to a farm in exchange for first hand research. I would appreciate any advice regarding life on the farm or criticism related to concept.

Many Thanks
Mark Anthony Games

I heard that when they arrived at the door, on a stormy dark night, the farmer welcomed them in, as hospitality dictated, bid his missus feed them, and bring down some blankets so they could kip on the sofa and in front the open fire.
An hour or two after the farmers family had retired, he came back down stairs and 'yer, it's frightful cold, would ee like our eiderdown?'
'Its OK guv', said one of the three, 'she's been down twice already'

 

[HumanVoice]

I heard that when they arrived at the door, on a stormy dark night, the farmer welcomed them in, as hospitality dictated, bid his missus feed them, and bring down some blankets so they could kip on the sofa and in front the open fire.
An hour or two after the farmers family had retired, he came back down stairs and 'yer, it's frightful cold, would ee like our eiderdown?'
'Its OK guv', said one of the three, 'she's been down twice already'

Not sure I can hand in a script for a Porn film...might please the tutors but doubt I would get the grade I'm after

 

[Still Farming]

Feeding and protecting animals and buildings in storm etc.
River banks etc works incase flood house,shed etc.
Lots of possibilities?
The wife , sicko analyses situation and helps chaps in the end etc.etc??

 

[HumanVoice]

Feeding and protecting animals and buildings in storm etc.
River banks etc works incase flood house,shed etc.
Lots of possibilities?
The wife , sicko analyses situation and helps chaps in the end etc.etc??

Absolutely, the wife is simply trying to protect her children for the first act but in the third shows her strength in organizing the response to the chaos that the floods cause. I wanted to reflect the community nature of farming. I was so impressed by how so many came together and worked as one to respond to the danger and destruction that the 2017 floods caused. In the screenplay two of the crooks run when other farmers come to assist with the flood damage, but Riley choose to stay behind and help the family.

 

[Raider112]

Farms in the Lake District tend to be Sheep and suckler cows rather than dairy so maybe best to avoid the daily milking as an urgent job, especially so as it's a remote area which is likely to be marginal land. The obvious daily tasks would be to make it lambing time as sheep left unattended would certainly be noticed. Although thinking about it lambing time could possibly be later in the year than likely flooding time.

 

[7610 super q]

Crim sits down with farmer for 6 hours and helps fill in SFP forms ?

Oh well, maybe not.

 

[Al R]

Shearing time and the criminals help out?
Lambing time also?

I would definetly watch Hinterland if I was you. I started watching it on Netflix this week and am now on series 3. Very good crime program set in Aberystwyth and surrounding area. There are definetly a few episodes that you could relate to in the Lake District and would make your “script” more appetising.

 

[HumanVoice]

Farms in the Lake District tend to be Sheep and suckler cows rather than dairy so maybe best to avoid the daily milking as an urgent job, especially so as it's a remote area which is likely to be marginal land. The obvious daily tasks would be to make it lambing time as sheep left unattended would certainly be noticed.

This was my thought. I am not sure what programe it was, but caught a glimpse of something on TV. Lambs were being slid in to this machine on their backs, a metal frame of some sort and they were given an injection or something (Nothing naughty or dark), it looked so funny that I need to find out what this was! This kind of mostly unseen practice would be great for a someone who has never been on a farm. Also there is a great metaphoric statement in a scene with an animal giving birth placed against a young man being given a second chance at life. I am now googling 'Sucker Cows' god help my internet provider and browser history!!

 

[Zippy768]

Criminal educates the farmer of the mis use of the plough and the damage it does to the soil.
Plot twist:- Its the farmer who has been commiting a crime all these years

 

[Al R]

This was my thought. I am not sure what programe it was, but caught a glimpse of something on TV. Lambs were being slid in to this machine on their backs, a metal frame of some sort and they were given an injection or something (Nothing naughty or dark), it looked so funny that I need to find out what this was! This kind of mostly unseen practice would be great for a someone who has never been on a farm. Also there is a great metaphoric statement in a scene with an animal giving birth placed against a young man being given a second chance at life. I am now googling 'Sucker Cows' god help my internet provider and browser history!!

Docking cradle. Not that common in the UK but some do do it. It’s for de tailing and de bollocking lambs.

 

[HumanVoice]

Docking cradle. Not that common in the UK but some do do it. It’s for de tailing and de bollocking lambs.

de-bollocking!!!! Feck me I thought Game of Thrones was brutal!!

 

[Al R]

de-bollocking!!!! Feck me I thought Game of Thrones was brutal!!

It’s either that or a rubber ring.....
The rubber ring should be used by the police for a lot of people, but that’s a different subject.

Plot twist, the 3 criminals break into an estately manor which belongs to Theresa May and they educate her on the best Brexit deal and it passes

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Docking cradle. Not that common in the UK but some do do it. It’s for de tailing and de bollocking lambs.

I remember seeing something like that in Australia, for mulesing the ewe lambs (and I am sure it would be illegal in the uk), like a sort of merry go round.

 

[Al R]

I remember seeing something like that in Australia, for mulesing the ewe lambs (and I am sure it would be illegal in the uk), like a sort of merry go round.

Shearwell sell the docking iron and I saw a docking cradle at a farm I buy ewes off a few weeks ago and they said it’s legal.

 

[HumanVoice]

I remember seeing something like that in Australia, for mulesing the ewe lambs (and I am sure it would be illegal in the uk), like a sort of merry go round.

Your school playground must have been in the ghetto fella, stay away from that merry-go-round

 

[Raider112]

This was my thought. I am not sure what programe it was, but caught a glimpse of something on TV. Lambs were being slid in to this machine on their backs, a metal frame of some sort and they were given an injection or something (Nothing naughty or dark), it looked so funny that I need to find out what this was! This kind of mostly unseen practice would be great for a someone who has never been on a farm. Also there is a great metaphoric statement in a scene with an animal giving birth placed against a young man being given a second chance at life. I am now googling 'Sucker Cows' god help my internet provider and browser history!!

Make sure to put the L in, Suckler sounds less sordid!