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Film Directing Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What does gaffer do?
Repetition is the death of creativity
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
it's portable
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

2. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
edit suite
To have an idea of how they talk
Result direction
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

3. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Result direction
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Eye contact
Report to the 1st AD

4. What is a story bored
Issue of power and sex
What they gain.
Pictorial representation of the film
Director

5. What is result direction?
Conversion
Keys
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
In visioning a result

6. What is result direction?
Keys
Because that's result direction.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
In visioning a result

7. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
To have an idea of how they talk
makes running a set more efficient
In visioning a result
Issue of power and sex

8. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Eye contact
To be a mirror
Director
Emotions and emphasis

9. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Director
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Pictorial representation of the film
Emotions and emphasis

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

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11. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
makes running a set more efficient
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Director
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

12. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Call sheets
To have an idea of how they talk
Repetition is the death of creativity
Pictorial representation of the film

13. A documentary is created in the...
Emotions and emphasis
Conversion
edit suite
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

14. Why do you do a callback?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Show commitment show ability to perform
They Need to observe
Report to the 1st AD

15. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Repetition is the death of creativity
To be a mirror
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Camera movement

16. What is a story bored
In visioning a result
Pictorial representation of the film
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
What they gain.

17. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Who's scene is it
They Need to observe
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
To have an idea of how they talk

18. Three important direction to give an actor.
Report to the 1st AD
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Emotions and emphasis
Director

19. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Director
edit suite
Sitting and standing is more powerful
edit suite

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

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21. 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
To have an idea of how they talk
Who's scene is it

22. 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?
Pictorial representation of the film
In visioning a result
Report to the 1st AD
Yes cross out so they can focus more

23. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
In visioning a result
B-Roll
Because that's result direction.
What they gain.

24. Why is craft services important?
Director
Tell a story
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Repetition is the death of creativity

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

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26. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Repetition is the death of creativity
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

27. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Camera movement
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Director

28. What is a pitch in one world?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Who's scene is it
Conversion

29. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
Call sheets
To eyes of the audience.
Issue of power and sex
B-Roll

30. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
B-Roll
Show commitment show ability to perform
To be a mirror
Pictorial representation of the film

31. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
They Need to observe
To have an idea of how they talk
Tell a story
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

32. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Director
it's portable
Pictorial representation of the film

33. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Keys
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Conversion
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

34. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Who's scene is it
Keys
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Report to the 1st AD

35. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
To eyes of the audience.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Director

36. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Result direction
Emotions and emphasis

37. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Result direction
Tell a story

38. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Director
Tell a story
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Camera movement

39. A documentary is created in the...
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Conversion
edit suite
Conversion

40. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Eye contact
Report to the 1st AD
Call sheets

41. What is the importance of close-ups?
Eye contact
makes running a set more efficient
In visioning a result
Emotions and emphasis

42. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Repetition is the death of creativity
Result direction
In visioning a result

43. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Because that's result direction.
B-Roll
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

44. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
To have an idea of how they talk
Call sheets
Report to the 1st AD
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

45. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Report to the 1st AD
Director
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Issue of power and sex

46. 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?
To eyes of the audience.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Yes cross out so they can focus more

47. Why do you do a callback?
Call sheets
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Report to the 1st AD

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

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49. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Keys
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Who's scene is it
To have an idea of how they talk

50. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
To eyes of the audience.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Because that's result direction.