Directing Experimental Short Films
Catch the golden fish
A course by Jiajie Yu Yan, Director and Filmmaker
About the video: Catch the golden fish
Overview
“Having tools to know how to look for inspiration and how to find the image for the final project is vital to start shaping your idea. In addition to giving you tricks and references to make it easier for you to find it, I will share with you the image that will be the starting point for my project.”
In this video lesson Jiajie Yu Yan addresses the topic: Catch the golden fish, 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. we have finished the Create Your Style lessons. now we will start taking the first steps to create our conceptual piece. The important thing for this project is that we have to choose a photo or a frame that inspires us. that conveys sensations or emotions to help us create our piece. I personally use tools like Pinterest. Instagram. or FilmGrab to search for inspiring images. which help me establish recurring concepts in my projects. Now. i'm going to show you the images I found that sparked my creativity and set the mood for my and I will end up choosing one that will be my starting...”
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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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