Carol Cooper

Margate, United Kingdom

Features Editor at shots

contributing editor at https://t.co/No8JhVqDIF…

Articles

It’s a [death] wrap!

2 days ago | magazine.shots.net | Carol Cooper

Packed with amusing rhymes and poignant touches, director Christopher Cole’s film Terminally Ill has justly attracted plaudits, including both the Audience Award and the Oscar-qualifying Jury Award for Comedy at Aspen Shortsfest, as well as a Silver Screen in 2024's YDA showcase. Reminiscing on all the fun things he did with his Grandma, while ruminating on her decline, the poet comes out with such gems as “Seen the first Shrek in cinemas, before the medical bills and enemas.”
Pressbyrån lops off its logo for freedom

1 week ago | magazine.shots.net | Carol Cooper

Created by Åkestam Holst NoA, this innovative campaign sees Pressbyrån conflate half of its logo with impactful images of journalists in war zones. Pressbyrån has more than 300 locations across Sweden and was founded in 1906 to distribute newspapers – so has always been rooted in journalism.
Wilkinson Sword’s hair today, gone tomorrow

2 weeks ago | magazine.shots.net | Carol Cooper

In Germaine Greer‘s controversial second-wave feminist tome of 1970, The Female Eunuch, there was a whole chapter titled 'Hair'. This explored how society shapes expectations of how women should handle their barnets and fuzzy bits. It’s a tricky one, as no matter how we might feel regarding the politics of making it go or letting it grow, many women prefer to attend to a spot of topiary on hair that crops up on butts, nips, pits and upper lips.
Kean Kavanagh’s dime store Elvis

2 weeks ago | magazine.shots.net | Carol Cooper

Dublin-born director Kojaque – who’s recently signed to Pulse – has crafted a highly entertaining music video for Kean Kavanagh’s track A Cowboy Song. Produced by Roamer, it’s the second in the director’s trilogy of stirring films for the Irish artist and tells the tragi-comic story of Pa 'The Hips' Campion, a down-on-his-luck Elvis impersonator and Portlaoise football club kit man who clings to fragments of small-town glory while descending into drink-fuelled despair about his lonely life.
OKA’s shock news about bad blood

2 weeks ago | magazine.shots.net | Carol Cooper

Brazilian Biotech company OKA is raising awareness about the extreme dangers micro and nano plastics pose, not only to oceans and aquatic life but to our own bodies. Created by Sao Paulo agency DM9DDB, the campaign aims to target COP30 policymakers with Plastic Blood, an exhibition of 3D-printed objects made from microscopic particles of plastic found in disposed human blood.
When the chips are down, KFC says sorry

3 weeks ago | magazine.shots.net | Carol Cooper

For this unusual initiative, created for KFC Spain by PS21, the brand embraced self mockery and apologised for years of underwhelming fries. The Kentucky Fries Compensation case study film even bravely quotes bad reviews on social that described the offending snacks as “limp and floppy” and, rather strangely, “colder than Mariah Carey defrosting”.
Ed Sheeran’s Persian party

3 weeks ago | magazine.shots.net | Carol Cooper

Starring such notable Iranians as comedian Omid Djalili, the much anticipated video for Ed Sheeran’s Azizam was helmed by director Saman Kesh through 42 Branded. Blending a contemporary story about love and longing – Azizam translates as ‘my dear’ – with traditional Persian motifs, the film honours the cultural heritage of Iran, with some banging choreography and amusing moves from a CGI-wobbled Sheeran.
Arizona’s hard-hitting home truths

1 month ago | magazine.shots.net | Carol Cooper

Directed by Zen Pace, this PSA for the Arizona Department of Education delivers a simple but impactful message. It follows a mother who is trying and failing to find shelter wracked with a further worry as her daughter’s school informs her that without proof of residency they cannot let her talented child continue learning there.
An anguished plea from the Voices of Children

1 month ago | magazine.shots.net | Carol Cooper

Made with the support of Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Tempomedia and RadicalMedia, and produced by Marco Henn, Alexander Kühn’s heart-rending film poetically portrays childhood trauma in the shadow of war. Featuring astonishing performances by the child stars, the story follows 10-year-old Lika, who has fled Kyiv with her mother and little sister Daria. Now in a refugee shelter, Lika tries to make sense of her new world through dreams in which she can fly.
Virgin sends in the clouds

1 month ago | magazine.shots.net | Carol Cooper

One of the pleasures of flying is the joy of making like a bird and rising through and above the clouds. This charming campaign created by Lucky Generals for Virgin Atlantic references the symbolism of these meteorological wonders while also championing the joy of finding far flung places where you can open your mind to – and connect with – other cultures and customs.