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<blockquote data-quote="slackjawedyokel" data-source="post: 7937210" data-attributes="member: 34254"><p>I know what you mean, but I think it would be very hard to make a film showing the realities of livestock farming. Firstly, even a simple film usually involves several different companies to finance, direct and produce, advertise and distribute the film. I think it would be difficult to get the money together and get everyone necessary on-board to make such a film. It would be very interesting to know what the ‘pitch’ for this Cow film was, as it appears to portray aspects of the animals life which are, or which will be, interpreted negatively by the mainly urban audience. An arty film such as this, that raises questions about our relationship with and use of animals would be much easier to get off the ground as a project than a film with a more purely educational bent.</p><p></p><p>The second difficulty is that ‘our side’ has a much more difficult job in making its point. The power of a film like Cow is that it uses emotion to lead the (urban) viewer to a particular viewpoint by selection and omission. You could make an educational film about the same farm (if you could fund it) but it would probably be boring and no-one would go and see it. It’s easy to knock farming- a lot of powerful arguments against livestock are presented as eyecatching soundbites (most soya is fed to animals, almond milk uses much less water than dairy milk etc) that are fairly easy to refute but usually in a fairly boring and statistical way that no-one will remember.</p><p>It’s an unfortunate fact that objective films do not get made about farming. There always has to be an angle and whatever angle is chosen will create bias. Take two recent programs that I think best capture some of the realities and frustrations of farming- BBCs This Farming Life and Amazon’s Clarkson’s Farm. To me they are still biased (although less so than most) but neither of them present everyday farming as I understand it - they’ve got to have an angle that creates jeopardy and interests the viewer.</p><p></p><p>Thirdly, in general farmers are ****poor at communicating with the general public. You’d hope that by paying subs and levys we’d have professional communicators acting on our behalf, but it seems that they make even more of a balls-up than we do, just more expensively<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="☹️" title="Frowning face :frowning2:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/2639.png" data-shortname=":frowning2:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slackjawedyokel, post: 7937210, member: 34254"] I know what you mean, but I think it would be very hard to make a film showing the realities of livestock farming. Firstly, even a simple film usually involves several different companies to finance, direct and produce, advertise and distribute the film. I think it would be difficult to get the money together and get everyone necessary on-board to make such a film. It would be very interesting to know what the ‘pitch’ for this Cow film was, as it appears to portray aspects of the animals life which are, or which will be, interpreted negatively by the mainly urban audience. An arty film such as this, that raises questions about our relationship with and use of animals would be much easier to get off the ground as a project than a film with a more purely educational bent. The second difficulty is that ‘our side’ has a much more difficult job in making its point. The power of a film like Cow is that it uses emotion to lead the (urban) viewer to a particular viewpoint by selection and omission. You could make an educational film about the same farm (if you could fund it) but it would probably be boring and no-one would go and see it. It’s easy to knock farming- a lot of powerful arguments against livestock are presented as eyecatching soundbites (most soya is fed to animals, almond milk uses much less water than dairy milk etc) that are fairly easy to refute but usually in a fairly boring and statistical way that no-one will remember. It’s an unfortunate fact that objective films do not get made about farming. There always has to be an angle and whatever angle is chosen will create bias. Take two recent programs that I think best capture some of the realities and frustrations of farming- BBCs This Farming Life and Amazon’s Clarkson’s Farm. To me they are still biased (although less so than most) but neither of them present everyday farming as I understand it - they’ve got to have an angle that creates jeopardy and interests the viewer. Thirdly, in general farmers are ****poor at communicating with the general public. You’d hope that by paying subs and levys we’d have professional communicators acting on our behalf, but it seems that they make even more of a balls-up than we do, just more expensively☹️ [/QUOTE]
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