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Film Directing Exam
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Subjects
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performing-arts
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film
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
Repetition is the death of creativity
B-Roll
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
2. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Eye contact
Yes cross out so they can focus more
edit suite
Camera movement
3. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
edit suite
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Issue of power and sex
4. Why is it a good idea to cross out scene/stage direction from a script once you have begun rehearsing it? What should not be crossed out?
Report to the 1st AD
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
5. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
They Need to observe
Emotions and emphasis
Show commitment show ability to perform
Tell a story
6. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Director
B-Roll
Issue of power and sex
7. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
What they gain.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Because that's result direction.
8. A documentary is created in the...
Result direction
edit suite
Report to the 1st AD
Call sheets
9. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
What they gain.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Conversion
10. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
What they gain.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
makes running a set more efficient
11. What does gaffer do?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
edit suite
Emotions and emphasis
Emotions and emphasis
12. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Director
Keys
13. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Report to the 1st AD
makes running a set more efficient
Director
Sitting and standing is more powerful
14. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
it's portable
Who's scene is it
makes running a set more efficient
15. Why is craft services important?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Eye contact
16. Why is it a good idea to cross out scene/stage direction from a script once you have begun rehearsing it? What should not be crossed out?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Report to the 1st AD
17. Why is it important to do a paper edit for a documentary?
18. Why do you do a callback?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Result direction
Emotions and emphasis
Report to the 1st AD
19. What is a pitch in one world?
Emotions and emphasis
edit suite
Because that's result direction.
Conversion
20. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Emotions and emphasis
Call sheets
To have an idea of how they talk
Repetition is the death of creativity
21. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Show commitment show ability to perform
To eyes of the audience.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
22. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Repetition is the death of creativity
Tell a story
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
23. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Keys
Emotions and emphasis
They Need to observe
Emotions and emphasis
24. What is a story bored
Pictorial representation of the film
Issue of power and sex
Eye contact
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
25. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
makes running a set more efficient
B-Roll
In visioning a result
Who's scene is it
26. Why is craft services important?
To eyes of the audience.
Eye contact
They Need to observe
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
27. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
They Need to observe
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Repetition is the death of creativity
28. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Because that's result direction.
To eyes of the audience.
Camera movement
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
29. What is the importance of close-ups?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Emotions and emphasis
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
30. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Repetition is the death of creativity
Result direction
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Because that's result direction.
31. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Emotions and emphasis
Because that's result direction.
To have an idea of how they talk
32. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Repetition is the death of creativity
edit suite
Show commitment show ability to perform
Eye contact
33. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Emotions and emphasis
Call sheets
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Director
34. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
To be a mirror
Because that's result direction.
Pictorial representation of the film
They Need to observe
35. A documentary is created in the...
Camera movement
Eye contact
edit suite
They Need to observe
36. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
Because that's result direction.
Issue of power and sex
edit suite
B-Roll
37. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
To eyes of the audience.
To have an idea of how they talk
Repetition is the death of creativity
38. What is the benefit of a written story bored over a drawn storyboard?
39. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Camera movement
Director
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
40. Why do you do a callback?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
41. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
To have an idea of how they talk
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
To eyes of the audience.
42. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Tell a story
Pictorial representation of the film
B-Roll
makes running a set more efficient
43. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What they gain.
Emotions and emphasis
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
To be a mirror
44. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Yes cross out so they can focus more
In visioning a result
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
45. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Eye contact
Who's scene is it
Result direction
46. What is the first question to ask yourself when deciding where to put the camera in shooting a scene?
47. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
To be a mirror
Call sheets
Sitting and standing is more powerful
B-Roll
48. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Because that's result direction.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Director
Pictorial representation of the film
49. What is the first question to ask yourself when deciding where to put the camera in shooting a scene?
50. What is a story bored
Yes cross out so they can focus more
What they gain.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Pictorial representation of the film