The Blue Cow

ABOUT THIS PROJECT

The Blue Cow is an 8-10 minute, slice of life short film produced by a crew of passionate Massey University Wellington Film Students! 

This story is about the overly attentive co-owner of The Blue Cow café, Ewan (60s), and how he embraces the challenge of working solo, after Flo, his long-time business partner, retires. 

Ewan is protective of The Blue Cow and everything he and Flo have achieved. He believes hiring someone new will bring more trouble than it’s worth. 

However, he soon discovers this burden is more than he can handle. Ewan must overcome his fears and learn to ask for help. 

WHY THIS? 

As a team, we are excited to create a short film focused on strong, relatable themes with a grounded story and polished design. We want to create films that display appreciation and admiration for the smaller moments in life. 

This film is important to us due to the central theme; recognising the need for help and mustering the courage to ask for it. Our main character, Ewan, must realise he cannot take this work on alone and learn to bring in someone new to The Blue Cow crew.  

This theme is close to us as young students and we believe it will resonate with audiences of all ages. 

The Blue Cow story comes from our team’s experiences in customer service. The characters of this story are inspired by quirky customers we have served throughout our work in hospitality. We want to create a film that sheds light on the unique relationships between the employee and the customer in the cozy, wholesome setting of a kiwi café

THE TEAM

We are a team of passionate Massey final year students working on our graduate film. 

We want this film to be the best representation of not only ourselves but of our ability to make professional, creative and engaging films to an industry standard.

The crew consists of: 

Third years:

Ben Addison-Saipe – Producer & Gaffer

Tom Foy – Director & Writer

Zack Stringer-Jago – Line Producer & Production Manager

Natasha Coleman - Director of Photography

Claudia Gilkison - 1st Assistant Director

Olivia Ikinofo - Sound

Jessie Chamberlain - Art Department

Sonny Cooper – Editing & Script Supervisor

Thomas Williams – Technical Supervisor

Second years:

Tahlia Barr – 2^nd Assistant Director

Kitty Sneyd-Utting – 3^rd Assistant Director

Yin Wong – 2^nd Assistant Camera

Hannah Van Den Brink – Sound Assistant

Daisy Jenson – Best Person

Sian Ledingham – Set Dresser

Caitlin O’Hagan – Set Dresser

Casey Williams – Art Department Hand

Seb McBride – Behind the Scenes Videographer

WHY WE NEED YOU

We need your help to bring our project to life! contributions towards this project will go towards paying our talented cast, paying for the use of our amazing location, making sure that we are able to provide food for everyone on set and to cover the costs of our art department requirements. All of these expenses quickly add up, so any amount of contribution is greatly appreciated.

This budget includes:

4,000$ - Actors - Includes rehearsals and their fees.

1,500$ - Location fees

500$ - Props and Set design

1,500$ - Catering

500$ - Vehicle hire and Transport

400$ - Distribution fees

300$ - Artist Commissions

We are also self-fundraising extra money through events such as a quiz night that we are hosting at Hunter Lounge on July 1st! Tickets for which can be bought from Eventbrite via this link. 

Thank you for supporting the Blue Cow Crew!