Directing Experimental Short Films
Camera movements
A course by Jiajie Yu Yan , Director and Filmmaker
About the video: Camera movements
Overview
“In this lesson I will talk about the types of camera movements but above all I will focus on how and when to move the camera.”
In this video lesson Jiajie Yu Yan addresses the topic: Camera movements, 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 when to move the camera, since it is a very strong cinematographic element. It’s important not to move the camera for free, since it must have a motivation, a reason. First we will see what types of camera movements exist and then we will see some examples with my projects. In this lesson I will talk about camera movements. This phrase by Max Ophüls sums up very well the importance of a camera movement and what it can express. "Motion-emotion", which means "movement is equal to emotion". There must be something that motivates the camera movement, Be it an idea, ...”
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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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