Directing Experimental Short Films
Frames and compositions
A course by Jiajie Yu Yan , Director and Filmmaker
About the video: Frames and compositions
Overview
“After having seen the main differences between formats, I'm going to explain to you the types of plans that exist, where to place the camera and decide what we want to show in the frame and what we want to leave out of the field. I will also talk about composition and visual weight.”
In this video lesson Jiajie Yu Yan addresses the topic: Frames and compositions, which is part of the Domestika online course: Directing Experimental Short Films. Learn to create a short film based on an image that inspires you.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson we will learn where to place the camera, what we want to show inside the frame and what we want to leave out of the field. We will also talk about composition and visual weight. First I will start talking about the shots that exist and then I will give you some examples. I would like to start this lesson with this phrase from Ernst Lubitsch That seems very illustrative. He said there are a thousand ways, but really only one is the good one. It is important to know where to place the camera and know what you want to show within the frame And what to leave out. Lubitsch is one ...”
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Course summary for: Directing Experimental Short Films
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Jiajie Yu Yan
A course by Jiajie Yu Yan
Jiajie Yu Yan is a film director and commercial filmmaker. His first experience on a film set was in 2007 as an actor for a Pepsi ad, which is when he realized that what he really wanted to do was to get behind the camera. He earned a degree in audiovisual communication from the Ramón Llull University in Barcelona and did a master's degree in screenplay and film direction at the Bande à Part film school. Thanks to a scholarship, he moved to Madrid to study a master in digital cinematography at EFTI.
He has received awards at the Thailand International Film Destination Festival for his short films A Lonely Trip (2014) and Blissful City (2015). His short film Aliens (2016) was filmed in Benidorm and has been nominated in more than 40 national and international festivals, including the Málaga Film Festival, the Sant Joan d'Alacant Film Festival, and the Curtocircuíto International Short Film Festival in Santiago de Compostela—all of them qualifiers for the Goya Awards. His latest music video for the song Soul (2018) by the group The Prussians was selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick and has been shared on platforms such as NOWNESS, Booooooom, Directors Notes, and in magazines such as i-D Vice, Metal Magazine, and Kluid Magazine. He recently finished his latest short film Xiao Xian, which is in the process of being distributed at festivals.
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