Creative Filmmaking for Brands
About Me
A course by Thalia de Jong , Filmmaker
About the video: About Me
Overview
“First, let me introduce myself. In this lesson, I will touch on my love for chairs that quickly turned into loathing and how I ended up becoming a filmmaker. ”
In this video lesson Thalia de Jong addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Filmmaking for Brands. Learn how to design, shoot, and edit playful videos that capture an audience's attention, from the initial concept to the final cut.
Partial transcription of the video
“About Me Hi, I'm Thalia de Jong. Thank you so much for being here. I'll tell you a little bit about myself. I started out wanting to be a furniture designer, so I went to a design academy, and there I quickly realized that chairs are boring. At this design academy, I focused more on communication studies. There, I had teachers that were mostly graphic designers. I confused them by not wanting to make posters, but films that look like posters. During my internship at a fashion magazine in Berlin, I had the opportunity to create a lot of online videos featuring beautiful fashion items. That w...”
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Course summary for: Creative Filmmaking for Brands
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Premiere -
Areas
Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Video

Thalia de Jong
A course by Thalia de Jong
Thalia de Jong is a Dutch filmmaker. During her design studies, she realized her passion lay in creating videos that look like posters. Nowadays, she specializes in making fresh and simple films with a twist, featuring lots of bright colors and the occasional furry creature. She focuses on portraying art, fashion, and design with an eye for detail and a smart sense of style.
Thalia has directed commercials, advertorials, music videos, and short films, on both large-scale and smaller sets. She has collaborated with high-profile clients such as Chanel, Ellis Faas Cosmetics, and HEMA, and received awards at the Barcelona Fashion Film Festival, the Berlin Fashion Film Festival, and A Shaded View On Fashion Film Festival, Paris.
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