Directing Experimental Short Films
Film language guide
A course by Jiajie Yu Yan , Director and Filmmaker
About the video: Film language guide
Overview
“Here I will show you a very personal and very practical document. The language guide is like my bible, it helps me to structure and to be very clear about what I will do during the shooting.”
In this video lesson Jiajie Yu Yan addresses the topic: Film language guide, 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 I will teach you how to make a film language guide, which is an important document, since I use it as a bible because it lets me know what I will do before shooting. It is an optional document, but I highly recommend it to be able to avoid any type of insecurities or doubts in the filming. As the shootings are full of unforeseen events, The Bible allows us to be clear about what we want to do. I show you what I have done for this project. Well, first of all forgive me for this little visual document but it is a fairly personal document that I usually do and I don't know if ot...”
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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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