About me – Nanna Paskesen

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freelance creative shapeshifter

I’m an Art Director and hybrid creative, dedicated to dreaming up and crafting beautiful worlds with compelling narratives that resonate with people and brands.

I’m a strong conceptualiser and lead creative with a knack for making something out of nothing, capturing an aesthetic and seeking out atypical ideas. With a professional background in video production and having studied culture and identities, I’m passionate about exploring what makes people tick and telling stories to an ever-changing world and audience. I live for asking questions and thrive in online social communities, having a fresh perspective on how we consume, what impacts us and what drives behaviour.

Regardless of format, telling the right story, in the right way is what I’m here for.

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What I can do for you

concept development + ideation

treatment + presentation deck

script writing/copy

compositing + graphics in Photoshop

compositing + animation in After Effects

visual treatment, look and feel

cinematography

edit

VFX + compositing

animation

grade

sound design

title design + graphics

featured projects

being a hybrid creative, I work within all aspects of filmmaking and is therefore a very hands on director and editor. This best comes to light my recent one woman projects, ‘Piece of You‘ which is a short film I made during isolation and ‘Polar Night‘, a nordic noir title sequence I made, winning runner up in the worldwide editing competition Editfest.

motion design

text + titles

compositing + environments

graphics, objects, products, mockups, elements, logos, illustrations

characters

greenscreen + keying

composite + environment builds

brand identity

graphic design

social posts + stories

what makes me unique?

✨I’m an After Effects whizz
I work in After Effects on a daily basis and can use it to its fullest. Whether it’s concepting ideas, animation, titles, tracked elements, an environment/scene built from scratch or keying – I got you!

click here to see some of my VFX breakdowns, animation builds and composites.

✨I’m a creative shapeshifter!
Do you need someone to come up with ideas, edit, animate titles, spice it up with some VFX , grade and sound design? Being a hybrid creative, I can cover all of those jobs.

watch some my one woman films

‘A Piece of You’ – a short made in isolation, using a mix of stock footage, a green yoga mat (as greenscreen), and some clementines from my kitchen.

‘Polar Night’ – a title sequence made entirely out of stock, with some added VFX and a grade.

‘Hello Canada‘ – an aesthetic travel film showing the little moments from our trip to Canada

‘True Cat Lover‘ – an animated, funky, super internet-y promo for Cats Protection.

‘Daisy Letters’ – a promo filmed and created for Leanna, who writes encouraging letters to kids in hospitals.

‘Zoochosis’ – a short documentary about animals in captivity

✨I’m crafty to the core
Having spent many years specialising in charity clients, I’m skilled in coming up with original and engaging ideas that works with low budgets and making something special out the restricted resources available.

see examples here

Letter for you, Cats Protection – using all stock and mockups to feature their membership product.

Top Dog, RSPCA – they wanted to make an online competition, but only had images of the dogs. So I animated the rest!

work & experience

I have 6+ years experience working across a large variety of projects including TV commercials, digital/social films, animation, short films, documentaries and pretty much everything in between. I’ve worked as a freelancer, in-house, and in an agency environment.

work
Freelance, Stockholm 2021
Art Director @ DTV Group, London 2018
Creative @ DTV Group, London 2015
Designer & Video Editor @ KnitbyTrineP, Freelance, Denmark, 2015 – current
Content Creative @ Frontier Environmental Exploration, London 2014
Motion Designer @ Kingston University, Internship, London 2014
Videographer @ ABWAK, Freelance, London 2014
Creative @ The Tab, Internship, London 2013
Video Editor & Motion Designer @ Frontier Environmental Exploration, London 2013

awards
‘Polar Night‘ EditFest, Runner up, Title Sequence, 2019
Curator’s Cut Video Choice Award, Phinfest, 2015
Media & Cultural Studies Award, 2014
Ben Dugdale Memorial Prize, 2014

education
Kingston University, Bachelor of Arts, First Class Honours, London, 2014

software

Premiere Pro

After Effects

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Lightroom

Audition

Figma

Avid

Da Vinci Resolve