Freedman Chair

Just a little something I directed just before leaving for India back in October last year. (Click the title to link to the video on Freedman Chair website.) This marvellous chair went on the win the British Invention Award 2011 and appear in magazines such as Wired. I would smugly like to think that this little video helped it along the way but the real driving force is Simon, the chairs inventor - he's truly an unstoppable force to be reckoned with. Chairs are £1500 a pop but if you've ever suffered from back pain and have a bit of spare cash it's probably well worth it.
Check it out.

Freelance life so far

So in the middle of October I left my full-time job to branch out into the freelance world. The first thing I did was bugger off to India for 3 weeks. I absolutely fell in love with Palolem (Goa) and since I returned to London all I can think about is how to get back there.

I mean look at it... it's bloody paradise!



The good news is that I've been getting work and earning money. I guess my CV looks alright as people have been very receptive and lovely.

I'm chatting to a couple of people about music videos and need to write up my ideas over the next couple of weeks (when I find a window where I'm not working). Hopefully they'll work out and sometime in the new year I'll be posting some music videos directed by yours truly. Watch this space.

I've also got a couple of film ideas floating around my brain and hoping to earn enough in the next couple of months to get back to Palolem for a month and spend my days on the beach and my nights writing scripts.

2011 seems to be coming to a close in a very positive light. Bring on 2012!

Peace and love.

Taking the plunge

So after some time to-ing and fro-ing I've finally decided to take the plunge and leave the comfort of in-house production to try and make it in the big bad world of freelancing.
I'd like to clarify that this is in no way reflective of not liking my job or the people I work with. It's quite the opposite in fact. The job and the people are so good that it's stopped me doing it sooner. But I want to be a director not a producer and if you want to be a director you've got to have a showreel. And if you want to make a showreel then you need time. And time for your own projects is something you just don't have when you work in house.
So I'm flying the nest as it were. It's scary and exciting.
Fingers crossed I won't be penniless and on the street in a few months.

In the interests of trying to drum up a bit of work here's a couple of stills of 2nd unit directing/camera work that I've done whilst in house.

HSBC "Student"


Historic Scotland "Stewart Dynasty"


Green Party "No Joke"

Turning Japanese

About a month I went to Japan on a job. I've always wanted to go to Japan and it didn't disappoint. When I got the news I was going (the night before flying) I was literally jumping around with excitement. Tokyo is insane. Despite working constantly and surviving on no more than 2 hours sleep a night for 8 days I had an amazing time.

I can confirm the following facts about Japan:
Vending machines are everywhere.
Japanese children are the cutest in the world.
Japanese people are unbelievably courteous and polite but they can't handle their drink.
Addresses have 3 coordinates; x, y and z. I.E. upwards as well.
Earthquakes are terrifying. (Experienced a 'small' one at 4am one night, 18th floor hotel room swaying from side to side... eek!)
Fuji Rocks is the cleanest festival I've ever been to.
Being a vegetarian is Japan is very tricky.
JAPAN IS AWESOME!

Anywhere we were there shooting a video for Kaiser Chiefs (who were all very nice chaps by the way).
Here it is:



Despite being there as production/DIT I got to shoot a bit too and there are a few of my shots in the final cut.
*smugly pats self on back*

So the moral of the story is: if you ever get the chance to go to Japan... DO IT! You won't regret it.

Worn By

I only bloody directed something didn't I?
I've been on about this for ages. And I wasn't lying I really did do it. It's finally finished.

I'd like to thank everyone that helped me on this as it's all about the team work.
DoP: Sam Goldie
Additional camera: Cassidy Burcher
Art Department/Stylist: Elin Evans
Editor: Charlie Moreton @ Work Post
Colourist: Luke Morrison @ The Mill


Here it is...

Worn By "101%" from Sarah Du Casse on Vimeo.

Some photos I've taken

CLOWNS



This and some other photos from the same night were used on a belt for Lowlife designed by Niklas Dahlbeck






DOGFACE




THE HOOD




SLEEPYTIME




FRENCH




WINE




HAT




SKY




MEOW

Where's Your Line?

I recently worked on a viral campaign for The Havens which has gone live on Youtube today. The campaign is aimed at 18-25 year olds and aims to foster the debate about sexual consent. The shoot for this job was super fun, although I did quite literally fall asleep at a few points (in my defence - I'd been working my fingers to the bone all week and it did go on all night!). The crew were all great and the actors did a fantastic job.

We attended the premiere screening last night at the Bermondsey Square Hotel which was full of all sorts of police, NHS, government and youth worker type people. The film went down really well and really proved to have the shocking impact that we were all hoping for. Boris Johnson himself sent us a pre-recorded video message congratulating everyone on their hard work and despite rolling the r when pronouncing the word rape he didn't say anything too inappropriate. Well done Bo-Jo!

They've done a feature on Sky News today about the film and the issue of consent which you can watch here

Working on jobs like this which might actually help society (as opposed to selling shit) make me feel pretty good about what I do.

So please have a look at the link below and be sure to explore the interactive element by clicking when you think the line has been crossed.

Watch The Havens - Where's Your Line? here

And be careful out there kids.