Directing Experimental Short Films
Color as narrative use
A course by Jiajie Yu Yan , Director and Filmmaker
About the video: Color as narrative use
Overview
“Here I will talk about the importance of color and how to use it from a narrative sense.”
In this video lesson Jiajie Yu Yan addresses the topic: Color as narrative use, 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
“This lesson what he pursues is to run away from emotional stereotypes associated with color. This lesson aims to learn to use color from a narrative sense. I will show you a color palette associated with one of my projects So you know what I mean. I find it interesting to start this lesson. with this phrase from Douglas Sirk, For me one of the best classic directors who used color. If you click on his name, you will access his Imdb file, Where is all his filmography. He was a renowned director of melodramas in the 50s. His best-known color films show that he has great control about the colo...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: Directing Experimental Short Films
-
Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro -
Areas
Art Direction, Audiovisual Production, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Photography Post-production, Script, Video, Video Editing, YouTube Marketing
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.
- 98% positive reviews (645)
- 17,168 students
- 17 lessons (2h 45m)
- 33 additional resources (14 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish, English
- Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
Adobe Premiere
Final Cut Pro
