Emmerdale designer opens up on unexpected tricks used to film storm – including cow cam

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Emmerdale fans will finally get to watch the highly-anticipated 50th anniversary special this weekend.An hour-long edition of the ITV soap will air on Sunday (October 16) to mark the ITV show's landmark birthday.Viewers can expect plenty of drama all next week as well as a huge storm, which is set to change the lives of some villagers forever.READ MORE: Emmerdale bloodbath teased as several lives in danger after storm rips through villageDesigner Duncan Howell has opened up about the challenges he's faced while trying to create the epic viewing for fans.He said: "Making it fit within the time frame has been the biggest challenge because we are doing feature film stuff on a soap schedule. "But it’s been brilliantly done.

It’s a great team. We have had massive special effects, big wind machines and tight turnaround times. "Sometimes there were two units filming in different locations so we had to split the special effects crew."It has also been revealed that a cow stampede will be one of the big elements of the week, which has never been done on a soap to the extent before.Duncan explained: "We began with conversations and lots of planning with the farmer.

It was really important that this did not cause any harm or stress to these animals. "The cattle we used all actually live on the farm.

For the filming element we created a new cattle pen near to a run which was a fence running down to one of their fields. "So when they came out of the pen they gathered to go down the run to their field.