Editing

Steve’s favourite cow Ida is becoming more and more integral to the film. She’s becoming such a star that we might need to change the title to “Ida and the moo man”. Then again Steve the farmer would never be free of her agent demanding a bigger trailer and dressage room for Ida. One whif of success hey!

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Website refresh

The Moo-Man website has had a refresh and hopefully we can now start updating it much more often and will add some great apps to show where the film is screening and a ‘demand it’ option. Stay tuned.

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Editing – light at the end of the tunnel?

Finally, more than a year later than we planned, editing of The Moo-Man is really shaping up and we will soon be there with a finished film! It has taken much, much longer than we thought but it’s worth the extra work. Steve the farmer, his trials and his tribulations on his farm and with the animals is a wonderful, heartwarming adventure with more than a touch of grit. Hopefully we can start thinking about a cinema release date soon. 

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New preview scene: Bottling begins

Steve and his dad had been bottling milk by hand in the farmhouse kitchen until now. Watch the scene now in our “preview clips”.

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Ida does Eastbourne

We are putting some more preview scenes from the film online. Here is the first and it’s a bit of a fave: Ida does Eastbourne:

 

 

 

Ida is Steve the farmer’s favourite cow. Steve being Steve, when he wanted to start a milk round in Eastbourne, he decided to promote the new round in a novel way. This is what happened when Steve decided to give Ida the new job as the farm’s head of PR.

 

Taken from our upcoming feature film “The Moo Man”. All copyright belongs to Trufflepig Films, England.

 

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The Moo-Man on The Food Programme

Steve Hook featured on The Food Programme on Radio 4 this week with a special on Milk. A big push for everything Raw Milk, a great story. Listen on iplayer here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yhv32

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Milk Fever

Took time off from editing recently to stake some stills and while down the farm saw my first case of the Autumn phenomena of milk fever (they always get it on the Archers so I thought it was a myth). A couple of bottles of calcium on a drip and this girl was soon up and about but you wouldn’t have thought so at the time. When we first found her she looked near gone, though it didn’t stop the calf having a tug at her teats in the hope of breakfast. Until the 1930s it was often fatal, according to James Herriot, but nowadays if you catch it in time, the cow can make a spectacular recovery.

 

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Calving Alfresco

“Gordon Bennett, she’s only gone and had it on her own”, was Steve’s reaction to discovering a cow had given birth ‘solo’ down on the marsh, catching him out more than a little. All part of today’s editing of the Moo-Man.

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The Times

Steve the farmer was featured recently as a The Times – Food and Drink ‘Local Hero’. Read the full article by following this  link:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article7142636.ece

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frosty cow

As the cows are now dirty stop-outs and staying out all night, we went down to the marsh to film them first light and to see how they were settling in. It’s late April but I was amazed how cold it can still be. The day before had been beautiful and warm, but now in the pre-dawn it was well into the icy minuses. The cows aren’t quite so keen on frosty grass so were eager to get up to the farm for a bowl of cereal while they were milked. So off they trotted without Dan the herdsman even having to collect them.

A beautiful morning though and by the time most of us had got up the frost was already gone, in fact you would never have believed it had been there at all.

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