Directing Experimental Short Films
Creating a Visual Treatment Document
A course by Jiajie Yu Yan , Director and Filmmaker
About the video: Creating a Visual Treatment Document
Overview
“The visual treatment is for me one of the most important documents, I will explain how I do it and how I structure it by sections. It is especially important to illustrate it with powerful and attractive reference images.”
In this video lesson Jiajie Yu Yan addresses the topic: Creating a Visual Treatment Document, 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
“Well, before you start doing the eye treatment, I'm going to explain what the photo I chose in the previous unit suggested to me. This photo suggests a trip to me, an inner, psychological, strange journey of the protagonist that somehow begins as something traditional and routine and it ends up being something more dreamlike, surreal or even nightmarish. I imagine it as a kind of descent into hell for the protagonist. Once we have, more or less, the definite history, it is time to do a treatment, which is a very visual document that helps us define what we are going to shoot. I will show yo...”
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Course summary for: Directing Experimental Short Films
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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.
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