The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: SallyintNorth on September 18, 2011, 03:42:51 pm
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A few days ago, a neighbour asked if I'd be happy to show a visitor from Brazil my collie dog working the sheep, and maybe let her have a go.
In the end I decided to be accommodating and it was agreed that they'd come this morning, weather permitting. The neighbour runs a farm B&B so I had assumed this was just someone who had booked into their B&B. So we made no specific preparations...
Well it turns out, they are a team making a film for a Brazilian travel programme. So there's us in our working clothes (and we've got a tup out, so I have stains from rudd as well as the usual collection of purple, orange and yellow marker sprays, purple and blue anti-septic and -biotic sprays, dung, urine, blood etc...) Oh, no, they said, this was great. All to be natural. There seem to be two cameramen, an organiser lady, the presenter and her young son ... crumbs.
It turned out to be great fun, the dogs worked beautifully, the cameraman got footage he was very pleased with, the youngster had a whale of a time chasing the sheep all around the field with Skip helping him as best he could, ("Oh, ok. So you're a shepherd? Not a very good shepherd, maybe, and a rather smaller and shriekier shepherd than the other shepherds I've worked with, plus you don't seem to speak any English, but I'll help as much as I can...") I did tell the presenter that her son was now officially worrying the sheep and that according to English law I could now shoot him, but she was pretty good at reading body language, and just laughed... :D
So now I am wondering whether, when I see Claire Balding or Julia Bradbury doing their walks, whether they too have stayed at a local B&B and had a long breakfast, driven to the site of the 'shoot', put the rucksack on their backs and made a bit of film, got back in the car and driven to the next site...
Yeah, I know, someone said there was no such thing as fairies, too...
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;D ;D ;D Sounds like fun!
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Of course there are fairies, I can see them clearly after several pints, they live in the bottom of my garden and they speak to me
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Wow, fancy being filmed ;D Sounds fun - will you get to see the final film?
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It sounds great - Sally the film star :trophy: I'm glad you had your scruffy stuff on - nothing so bad as wearing your toff cloff when you have allegedly just bumped into the interviewer during a normal working day. I wonder if they will give you a copy and we can all see.
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Well done, sounds like you had great fun too.
Hope you got the royalties sorted ;)
Glad the dogs worked well. Aren't they great?
Ian
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Well done you.
Did the crew realise they were visiting what will shortly be a third world country? I wonder......
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Do those little mushrooms shaped like pyramids in the corner of my paddock meen I have Pharaohs at the bottom of my garden ?
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Thanks for all the laughs folks. ("toff cloff" - I love it. ;D) (markcott I thought you were going to say fairies in the bottom of your glass.... tizaala sphinx he's got pharoahs haha ::) )
Oh, the dogs were great, Ian - I was so proud!
jaykay, they say they will post a copy of the film on the internet for us all to have a look - but it will not be until after it's been shown on Brazilian TV, and that won't be until next year some time. I'll share the link of course when and if I get sent it...
Royalties? Hrmph. Since we didn't know about the film of course we just did this out of the goodness of our hearts... and after the shoot they got me to sign a girt long piece of spiel which they said was just to give them the rights to use the film and I'm sure probably was, but by now it was hurling it down with rain and although I do usually read anything I sign very carefully I did on this occasion just sign without more than a cursory scan - I told BH, "I don't think I've sold the farm..."
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Sounds like great fun, even if you had your working clobber on, will be looking forward to seeing the footage when it's available.
My fairies are growing their winter houses in a corner of one of my fields.