Directing Experimental Short Films
Sound and music
A course by Jiajie Yu Yan , Director and Filmmaker
About the video: Sound and music
Overview
“And to finish I'll tell you how I propose sound design, the kind of sounds I like and the role that music will play in the project. Let's go there!”
In this video lesson Jiajie Yu Yan addresses the topic: Sound and music, 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
“During this course, we have focused a lot on the image and the visual, but we can't neglect the sound and the music, which is a fundamental part of the director, since it generates sensations and emotions. Personally, I really like a hypnotic, immersive sound sound and, that somehow, contribute to the image, and that is not simply a realistic sound. In addition to sound, music will be essential in this piece. I'm going to show you how it looks. Sound design is the part I control the least of all postproduction. Although I really like it for all the creative possibilities that can give us, s...”
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Course summary for: Directing Experimental Short Films
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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.
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