Directing Experimental Short Films
Direction of actors
A course by Jiajie Yu Yan , Director and Filmmaker
About the video: Direction of actors
Overview
“In this lesson we are going to focus on the direction of actors. It is very important to know what we want from our actors, since they will be the visible face of our history. I'll give you some tips so you can get the most out of it!”
In this video lesson Jiajie Yu Yan addresses the topic: Direction of actors, 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 are going to focus on the direction of actors which is an essential part, since it is the visible face of our history. Normally, actors are usually chosen by factors: for the physical profile and for the interpretive quality. For me, the latter is more important, but, sometimes, depending on the project, since if it is a video clip, an advertisement or a less narrative piece It is chosen by photogenicity and physical profile. It is very important that you keep in mind that the direction of actors it's not just a relationship between the actor and director, since the other...”
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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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