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Film Directing Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the benefit of a written story bored over a drawn storyboard?

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2. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
To have an idea of how they talk
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Who's scene is it

3. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
B-Roll
edit suite
Director
Yes cross out so they can focus more

4. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
To have an idea of how they talk
In visioning a result
edit suite

5. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Repetition is the death of creativity

6. What is a pitch in one world?
Keys
Camera movement
Conversion
Show commitment show ability to perform

7. Three important direction to give an actor.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Issue of power and sex
Repetition is the death of creativity
Director

8. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
In visioning a result
To have an idea of how they talk
Result direction

9. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
They Need to observe
Result direction
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
What they gain.

10. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Director
it's portable
Camera movement
Call sheets

11. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Emotions and emphasis
edit suite
Report to the 1st AD
Result direction

12. Why is craft services important?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Result direction
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Camera movement

13. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Yes cross out so they can focus more
They Need to observe
In visioning a result

14. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
B-Roll
Camera movement
Pictorial representation of the film
Tell a story

15. 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
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
What they gain.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

16. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
They Need to observe
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

17. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
They Need to observe
Camera movement
Tell a story

18. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

19. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
To be a mirror
Emotions and emphasis
To eyes of the audience.
To eyes of the audience.

20. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
it's portable
Eye contact
Repetition is the death of creativity
Repetition is the death of creativity

21. Why is it important to do a paper edit for a documentary?

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22. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Show commitment show ability to perform
To eyes of the audience.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Director

23. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
To be a mirror
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Director
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

24. Should you demonstrate how a line should be said to an actor? Why or why not?

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25. 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
Sitting and standing is more powerful
B-Roll
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

26. What is the importance of close-ups?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Emotions and emphasis
edit suite
Report to the 1st AD

27. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Repetition is the death of creativity
They Need to observe
Director
Eye contact

28. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
In visioning a result
They Need to observe
Director
To have an idea of how they talk

29. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Pictorial representation of the film
To eyes of the audience.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

30. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What they gain.
it's portable
Repetition is the death of creativity
Emotions and emphasis

31. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Report to the 1st AD
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Yes cross out so they can focus more

32. A documentary is created in the...
edit suite
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
B-Roll

33. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Director
edit suite
Eye contact
Pictorial representation of the film

34. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
Conversion
Eye contact
makes running a set more efficient
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

35. What is the first question to ask yourself when deciding where to put the camera in shooting a scene?

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36. What does gaffer do?
What they gain.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
makes running a set more efficient
edit suite

37. Why do you do a callback?
Show commitment show ability to perform
To be a mirror
What they gain.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

38. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Emotions and emphasis
Report to the 1st AD
makes running a set more efficient
Issue of power and sex

39. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Keys
makes running a set more efficient
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

40. What does gaffer do?
Keys
Camera movement
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

41. What is the importance of close-ups?
To be a mirror
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Eye contact
Emotions and emphasis

42. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Conversion
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
makes running a set more efficient
Director

43. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Pictorial representation of the film

44. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Director
Call sheets
B-Roll

45. What is result direction?
What they gain.
makes running a set more efficient
Because that's result direction.
In visioning a result

46. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
edit suite
B-Roll
Director

47. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Result direction
B-Roll
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Sitting and standing is more powerful

48. A documentary is created in the...
To be a mirror
edit suite
To eyes of the audience.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

49. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Tell a story
Camera movement
Keys
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

50. Why do you do a callback?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Result direction
They Need to observe
Who's scene is it