Carol Cooper
Features Editor
carol.cooper@extremereach.comCarol has been writing for shots for over 11 years and, in the role of Features Editor, adds to her workload of articles and profiles with regular work postings.
Sword & Shield’s call to arms
The new creative studio announces its launch with a gorgeous hand-drawn animation that sets out its remit to defend the art of craft.
Apple India’s crowning glory
The tech giant’s new campaign features five humorous spots in which monarchs are getting in various muddles that are all sorted by the new iPhone 17's capabilities.
Love, Dallas steels his heart
The UK indie musician releases a self-directed music video that’s a hypnotic study of metallic melancholy in monochrome.
Gucci and Glazer’s runway rebels
Director Jonathan Glazer crafts a surreal film for the fashion house featuring some interesting off-catwalk chaos.
Bradesco notates all the write moves
The Brazilian financial institution launches ‘Dancebook Brasil’ a pioneering project that creates an unprecedented record of the country’s dances.
The Way I See It: Ted Rogers
Currently associate artist at the Tracey Emin Foundation, Ted Rogers – choreographer/dancer/painter and all-round Renaissance polymath, who’s work includes promos and ads for brands such as Gucci, Very and Future Islands – is also a fine storyteller. Here they share with Carol Cooper their candid, moving tales of movement.
Fridge Raiders’ cold front
This comic campaign for the snack brand follows two explorers who find it’s snow joke when they lose essentials – including trousers – while heading for the Pole.
How radical tenderness became a dance of protest
Arriving in Mexico for a commercial shoot, director Rachel McDonald was disturbed by events unfolding in the US and, finding her feelings aligned with the ad’s choreographer, embarked on an ambitious dance film.
Storm Warning: Gener8ion’s scary school daze
The multidisciplinary project led by musician Surkin and director Romain Gavras launches a blistering promo for the track Storm that depicts macho antics at an elite all-boys school.
War Child’s lens on lives in conflict
Alongside Help(2), the fundraising album for the children’s charity, Jonathan Glazer and Academy Films have created the 'For Children, by Children' project, which includes this heartbreaking Olivia Rodrigo promo.
Bleating around the bush
This droll film for the flower delivery service Fleurop features a man who tries various methods of apologising to his girlfriend, including shaving sorry into a sheep.
You’re never alone with a cone
The ice cream brand Extrême's new campaign features a curious character who manifests in unexpected places to tempt folk with his creamy confection.
Carol Cooper
Features Editor
carol.cooper@extremereach.com
For 11 storm-tossed years now, Carol’s been lurking in the hold of the great ship shots, churning out in-depth features, country profiles and interviews with such heroes as Frank Budgen and David Droga.
Variously known as shots’ sub-editor, contributing editor and ma’am, Carol helps produce shots, curates and posts loveliness to shots.net, generally swabs the decks and has been known spend up to 12 hours tussling with one single marine metaphor.
Prior to, and alongside, shots, she has worked for a staggering variety of consumer titles, writing stuff ranging from e-sports analysis for Broadcast, to saucy nonsense for Nuts.
Carol is also a playwright and loves shots more than words can wield the matter.
Work, Craft, Profiles, Insight