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Film Directing Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A documentary is created in the...
To eyes of the audience.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
edit suite

2. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Director
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Eye contact

3. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Keys
Because that's result direction.
Report to the 1st AD

4. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Show commitment show ability to perform
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
In visioning a result
They Need to observe

5. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Show commitment show ability to perform
To have an idea of how they talk
Tell a story
Eye contact

6. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Eye contact
Director
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

7. 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?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Tell a story

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

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9. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
To have an idea of how they talk
To be a mirror
Director
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

10. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
Report to the 1st AD
Director
Call sheets
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

11. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Result direction
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
In visioning a result

12. What is a pitch in one world?
Conversion
Pictorial representation of the film
What they gain.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

13. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
To have an idea of how they talk
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Camera movement
Call sheets

14. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
Who's scene is it
it's portable
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
B-Roll

15. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Show commitment show ability to perform
In visioning a result

16. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Call sheets
Tell a story
Keys

17. A documentary is created in the...
edit suite
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Repetition is the death of creativity
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

18. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Repetition is the death of creativity
To be a mirror
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

19. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
Eye contact
Yes cross out so they can focus more
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Yes cross out so they can focus more

20. What is a pitch in one world?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Show commitment show ability to perform
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Conversion

21. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
it's portable
Call sheets
Because that's result direction.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

22. What is the importance of close-ups?
B-Roll
Emotions and emphasis
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
edit suite

23. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Keys
Eye contact
Issue of power and sex
Show commitment show ability to perform

24. Why do you do a callback?
Repetition is the death of creativity
Show commitment show ability to perform
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Pictorial representation of the film

25. Three important direction to give an actor.
Pictorial representation of the film
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Keys
Emotions and emphasis

26. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
To have an idea of how they talk
it's portable
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Issue of power and sex

27. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
Pictorial representation of the film
Report to the 1st AD
Repetition is the death of creativity
In visioning a result

28. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Issue of power and sex
They Need to observe
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

29. Why is craft services important?
Emotions and emphasis
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
it's portable

30. What is a story bored
Call sheets
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Pictorial representation of the film

31. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
it's portable
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Repetition is the death of creativity

32. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
B-Roll
Camera movement
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Keys

33. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

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

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35. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Call sheets
Issue of power and sex
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Camera movement

36. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Eye contact
What they gain.
Who's scene is it

37. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
To eyes of the audience.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Show commitment show ability to perform
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

38. Three important direction to give an actor.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Yes cross out so they can focus more
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
To eyes of the audience.

39. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
Eye contact
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Show commitment show ability to perform
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

40. Why do you do a callback?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Director
makes running a set more efficient
Show commitment show ability to perform

41. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
To be a mirror
Repetition is the death of creativity
Eye contact
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

42. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Director
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Keys

43. What is result direction?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
B-Roll
In visioning a result

44. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
To eyes of the audience.
edit suite
edit suite
Eye contact

45. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Call sheets
edit suite
What they gain.
To eyes of the audience.

46. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
Director
B-Roll
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Tell a story

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

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48. 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.
Eye contact
Yes cross out so they can focus more

49. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
In visioning a result
Keys
They Need to observe
it's portable

50. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Conversion
Result direction
Camera movement
To eyes of the audience.