Hannah Marsden

My reel covers work from four different projects:

['A Night at the Ballet' (2024)](https://hannahmarsden.myportfolio.com/a-night-at-the-ballet) - my final-year film created with Piseth Blaauwendraad and Luca Peppler at Bournemouth University.

This film is a comedic little slapstick short about daydreaming at work; the goal was to push my understanding of comic timing through strong layout and editing, as well as visually representing a clear difference between a dream sequence and cold, hard reality.

The short was officially selected for London SIGGRAPH's Fast Forward Competition, as well as the BFX Film Festival 2024.

['A Battle of Bills' (2024)](https://hannahmarsden.myportfolio.com/framestore-previs-masterclass) - a previs project created for a live brief set by Framestore, for the 'Masterclass' unit at Bournemouth University.

The brief was to create the previsualisation for a chase sequence of any genre, taking place in the provided environment. I opted for a comic take on this, drawing inspiration from the fast-paced and witty chase scenes from Edgar Wright.

My story focused on a couple who, after a romantic dinner date, are fighting over who wishes to pay the bill - with each wanting to be seen as the generous one! This project taught me so much about shot language, as well as the effect that focal length has on the speed of a tracking shot!

['RNLI 200 Voices Project' (2023)](https://hannahmarsden.myportfolio.com/rnli-200-voices-project) - a group project from my second year of university, with Sara Conduto, Spassia Kazaska Rowan Cruse Howse and Joey Kim.

I was the director of a 5-person group for this project, which was responding to a live brief set by the RNLI. We were asked to create a 30-second advert in a 1:1 format, using their colour scheme and branding, in order to promote their 200th anniversary podcast.

We were provided with 10 minutes of audio from Mary Taylor, a woman who spent most of her life fundraising for the charity - the brief gave us free reign to edit the audio and create any visuals we saw fit. In contrast to my later projects, this had an emotional and more serious tone to it, to honour the memory of Mary.

I was responsible for creating early previs, and later the layout, setting up clean scene files for transferral through the pipeline. It was a unique challenge to create visuals that translated well to a square format.

The film won first prize overall in the BFX Competition 2023, as well as in several other categories such as best art direction.

'Ice Cream' (2025) - a personal project [using storyboards from Joe 'Thad' Deahl](https://www.thad.work/).

My previous layout and previs projects all used my own storyboards as the basis of my sequences - however, in an industry setting, I would likely be interpreting someone else's boards. I reached out to Joe 'Thad' Deahl, a storyboard artist whose work I have been following for many years, and he gave me permission to use his storyboards as the basis for a rough layout sequence.

This is another comedic project, in which a magpie flies away with an ice cream man's winning scratchcard. I chose this sequence to interpret as it had ambitious flying cameras, as well as some cramped in-car shots that I thought would be a challenge to craft. There was also the added challenge of constraints, with several objects being thrown! Overall, it was a very fun project to keep me honing my layout skills.