- Location
- Exeter, Devon
Bound to win something at Cannes then!
Cow - The film
- Thread starter Muddyroads
- Start date
- Location
- cornwall
Do you think they will set up animal courts, and take cow 349 to court for ABH against cow 546, when she headbutted her as she was innocently eating some silage????
TheTallGuy
Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire
How dare you assign them numbers... cows have a right to be known by their names....
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- Scottish Highlands
I'm just a little guy working alone in the Highlands of Scotland but I managed to get one of my videos onto European channel TV and as inflight entertainment on Emirate Airlines plus a whole lot more, to promote my dogs.
I'd set the camera up, put sticks in to mark the edges of the frame, run the camera, and perform the action. No cameraman most of the time. The ex-BBC bod I discussed this with before hand said it couldn't be done because it would need a six man crew and the sort of budget you have in mind. I am sick to death of the doom merchants and "It cannot be done". It sure as hell won't be if nobody tries.
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- South wales
But don’t you dare name them female names as that’s highly offensive, (wish I could find the screen grab someone posted on here of a woman saying that )How dare you assign them numbers... cows have a right to be known by their names....
primmiemoo
Member
- Location
- Devon
Animal trial - Wikipedia
Nowadays, animals are not considered to have moral agency.
- Location
- Northumberland
It sounds like you are just the man for the job then
. Crack on- do you want some funding?
- Location
- Derbyshire
here's a simple video my daughter did of last year's calves. As HC says, the music sets a completely different narrative
primmiemoo
Member
- Location
- Devon
The calves showed inquisitiveness, good health, mild wariness of the unfamiliar pose of the person filming (the red and white lying down in the field was almost to moving away from the camera), more good health, and being in a safe, secure resting state when asleep.
Jack Russell loves his person, and might, just might have been thinking about sampling what's in the bucket? Just a little. Only one lick. Honest!
Jack Russell loves his person, and might, just might have been thinking about sampling what's in the bucket? Just a little. Only one lick. Honest!
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- Scottish Highlands
I am 82 and my ambition in life is to continue sitting in my arm chair with feet up on the wood burner annoying the younger generation.It sounds like you are just the man for the job then
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
EXCELLENT! That's the sort of thing I'm getting at! And what sort of budget to make that?
When I started, it was 16mm film. A 100 foot roll of film lasted for 2.5 minutes. It cost £100 (then) to develop and print. Purchase of my camera was financed by the sale of a dog. Most would end up on the cutting room floor. Then I got video 3/4 inch tape. 20 minutes a roll. My edit suite, bought second hand, originally cost upwards of £100k (worth nothing now). Now we have over 15 HOURS on a thing about the size of a postage stamp. Ye gods! "It can't be done". And you can even record it on your phone! My first camera required a two man crew, so I worked out of the truck or a quad -- just by myself.
I'd suggest collecting as much footage similar to the above while we can. No old character cowmen left? People like to watch people. No emotional reaction to TB or F&M slaughter? Get it on film. They also like to watch animals. They like action. They do actually like farming -- if you give them the chance. In the film world, it is said people will watch crap recorded on a piece of damp string IF IT'S INTERESTING! Yes, it will cost for the music and it will cost for the editing. But these things become self financing (i.e. someone will come up with the money IF they can see it's commercial) once they begin. But first, you have to begin!
jpd
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- Location
- rep of irl
The guys and gals that redub Peppa pig to the Scottish version could have a ball with this
cow 2 this time its personal
It’s a movie already. From the look of the poster, I’m not sure if I dare see what the content is like…
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Seems to have elements of Piranha 3D, Deliverance and Porky’s all rolled in to one.
I’m in ….
Was shown at Cannes last year if not the year before.
Cow .. The Film/Documentary
"Cow" A film/documentary now showing to rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festive. Unfortunately, it appears that it will be used as an anti dairy farming vehicle and reviewers are certainly humanising it and giving human emotions (anthropomorphising) to the animals. They seem especially touchy...
thefarmingforum.co.uk
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- Scottish Highlands
There will be specialist agents and directories out there. FilmBang is one I seem to remember. Here you go: https://www.filmbang.com
- Location
- Exeter, Devon
Surely that’s been going on for years? I know very little about anything but even I’ve heard of horse trials and sheep dog trials. Presumably they’re held in kangaroo courts?
- Location
- Exeter, Devon
Any chance we can see it on here?
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
I still have bits of it. Originally, it was 50 minutes long shot in 1997 but in moving between formats, I lost a sound track and things happen. Here is a clip of morning exercise. It was one time I hired a cameraman. I just did some dropping exercises for the camera. About 35 dogs here of all ages so some are not so obedient!.
I went to see this film at a city centre cinema last Friday there was me and my partner and only 3 others there!.its a true reflection of what happens on a dairy farm but filmed in such a way as to be emotive.i keep sheep not cattle but one thing that stuck with me was how have holstein cattle become so extreme in terms of udder size