About me

Graphic design communication graduate. Film maker.

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Projects

• TIME TRAVELLER (starring Shoshy)A 60’s Sc-Fifi music video for dreampop artist Shoshy. Created during my residency with The Working Class Creatives Database. As she floats through the universe alone in her spaceship, Shoshy tells a tale of alien time travel, an intergalactic soul-mate and a dramatic escape from her own outer space engagement ball. CREATIVE ROLE: Director, Editor, Set Build, Prop Making
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  LOVECARD FATEA TALE OF LUST. FATE. DISAPPOINTMENT AND A BOY WITH A TINY HOOP EARRING LOVECARD FATE A short film by myself and Marianne Chase, made in lockdown, based on some stories that our friends have told us CREDITS: Directed by - Cath Shayler and Marianne Chase Written and edited by - Cath Shayler Starring and Narrated by - Marianne Chase Music by: Robert Davey With thanks to: Johnny Elderfield, Sam Donvito, Sadie Bryant, Adam Bown, Jemma Williams-Fyne, Steven Kraan , Moah Madsen, Amber Inman
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  The Secret Life of HouseplantsCan your houseplants read your mind? Short archive footage documentary about houseplants and their secret telepathic powers. Based on studies found in peter Tompkins and Christopher Birds’s 1973 book The Secret Life of Plants.
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  VIVA LAS CINÉFor the indecisive movie goer. My response to Little White Lies: My Picture Palace competition that asked readers to create their own cinema from home.
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  La Rupture*D&AD New Blood - Yellow Pencil Winner 2018.* A campaign for Microsoft Surface demonstrating the power of creativity and what it can make possible. Boy dumps girl via text. Girl teaches boy a lesson via Powerpoint Presentation. This project was made in collaboration with Lena Le Rigoleur
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  Dad DancingIn a world of disco balls, cheap party cocktails, and miniature food on sticks. A new craze, would change the dancefloor... Forever.

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Work history

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Director - FilmRandom acts, channel 4
Jun 2017 - Mar 2018Leeds, United KingdomFreelance
A programme ran by Channel 4 in collaboration with Arts Council England, that works with 16-24 year old filmmakers, helping them to make their film ideas become reality. Wonders of the Moon was one of 300 shorts from the Random Acts programme to be showcased at the ICA as part of the Playback Festival in March 2018

Skills

• Art Direction
• Adobe Photoshop
• Abode Premiere
• Advertising Concepts
• Humour
• Indesign
• Set Decoration
• Film Graphics
• Short Films
• Moving Image

Education

New Blood AcademyD&AD
Jul 2018London, United Kingdom
A creative bootcamp that prepares young creatives for the industry. Attendees are mentored by the best of WPP’s agencies and pushed to their creative limits through a non-stop programme of talks, workshops, hacks, and live client briefs.
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BA (hons) Graphic CommunicationChelsea College of Art (UAL)
Sep 2015 - Jun 2018London, United Kingdom
BA Graphic Design Communication at Chelsea College of Arts examines the wide-ranging aspects of the graphic design process and contemporary communication. The course places a strong emphasis on live projects in collaboration with the creative industries. You will develop your digital and technical skills. The work you produce will reflect your passion for new ideas.

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Awards

New Blood Awards: Yellow PencilD&AD
Response to a brief set by Microsoft Surface asking us to inspire creativity in a 2 minute film piece. La Rupture aims to show that Microsoft Surface wants above all to be an instrument of creativity, of sharing and emotions, to give humans back their values and their creative power - even in the most personal of matters. This project was a collaboration with Léna Le Rigoleur