Anna-Lena Isaksson
Summary
-
Video Editor with over 10 years experience in broadcast and corporate video post.
-
Experience with at all facets of post-production, including digitizing, assembly,
developing graphics assets, online editing, audio sourcing and mixing and delivery.
-
Proven expertise at bringing value to the project on a limited budget, while and following schedules and deadlines.
-
Resourceful and experience in maximizing content quality from limited source material.
-
Effective communicator. Working side-by-side with producers and designers, or extensive experience telecommuting with other production team members.
-
Skilled with Final Cut Pro 7 suite, Adobe Premiere and Photoshop, as well as MS Office, basic After Effects and Motion.
-
Tri-lingual in English, Spanish, and Swedish.
Work Experience
Video Editor (Freelancer)
2010 - present
Providing post-production for Bay Area TV and Video production houses, working on corporate, current events, and educational projects:
Micro-Documentaries: Editing short documentaries for non-profit and corporate organizations in either English or Spanish, e.g. Fair Trade, Alas, HP, Cisco, and David & Lucile Packard Foundation. Responsible for complete post-production, including selection of interview clips, b-roll, guiding the music choice for composers, assembling assets.
LinkTV: Edited the series Docs+. Transitioned show from pilot stage to two-season series broadcast on the news network NDTV in India. Edited a special report on Iran’s nuclear program. Selected b-roll, recorded voice-overs, added graphics, worked in tandem with station founder and producers.
More clients: Al-Jazeera America, Revision 3, One to One Box, Smartshoot, Marea Media, Jan Landis Entertainment, Zala Films, BrightTalk, Flying Moose Pictures
ASG at Google
June 2014 – present
Editing videos for the Google Developers office.
Flying Moose Pictures
2008 - 2010
Video editor for corporate, educational, and commercial videos, as well as the quirky video pod dekePod (with Photoshop guru Deke McClelland). Researched stock images and manipulated them in Photoshop. Compress video and deliver for web. Created DVDs using DVD Studio Pro.
LinkTV
2008 - 2010
Edited the weekly show news show Global Pulse, a comparison of international broadcasters coverage of current events. With extremely limited time and resources, I assembled news footage, developed graphics on the fly, recorded and inserted VOs, mixed audio. Output to tape and web formats. Uploaded video files to Internet sites and servers.
CW Bayarea/KBCW
2008 - 2010
Assist edited for the daily Alice@97.3 television show Sara & No Name After Dark. I prepared and synched b-roll and field footage; created quirky image montages in Photoshop and Final Cut Pro; made DVDs for show guests. I filled in as show editor when Senior Editor was unavailable.
Barbary Coast Productions
2005 - 2008
Video editor for locally produced travel adventure shows: The Great Outdoors With Tom Stienstra (KPIX/UPN) and Taste For Adventure (Fine Living Network). All phases of post- production, including logging, digitizing, online editing, music selection, audio mixing, and layoff to tape.
Languages
Swedish
Spanish
English
Skills
Non-linear editing
Color correction
On-lining
Final Cut Pro/Premiere
Photoshop
basic Motion/AE
MS Office
Education
BA in Radio/TV (2004)
San Francisco State University
My studies at the BECA program focused on TV production with classes in Sports Broadcasting, Video Editing, Field Production, Media Aesthetics and Studio Production.
AA in Liberal Arts (2001)
City College of San Francisco
Trekked through CCSF to turn my Swedish education into American GE and dove into classes at the Broadcasting Department.
Diploma, Political Science Program (1993)
Välkommaskolan, Malmberget, Sweden
The Swedish Upper Secondary School, where I studied Civics, with an art emphasis.
2010 - present
2010 - present