Test your basic knowledge |

Film Directing Exam

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
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. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Report to the 1st AD
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Eye contact

2. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
To eyes of the audience.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Repetition is the death of creativity

3. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Report to the 1st AD
Result direction
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Yes cross out so they can focus more

4. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
B-Roll
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Report to the 1st AD
Repetition is the death of creativity

5. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
To have an idea of how they talk
Camera movement
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

6. 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?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

7. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Eye contact
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
it's portable

8. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
Show commitment show ability to perform
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

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

10. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Call sheets
B-Roll
Pictorial representation of the film
Keys

11. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Issue of power and sex
They Need to observe
B-Roll
Director

12. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
To eyes of the audience.
Keys
Tell a story
it's portable

13. What is the benefit of a written story bored over a drawn storyboard?

14. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Show commitment show ability to perform
To have an idea of how they talk
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

15. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
To eyes of the audience.
Who's scene is it

16. What is a story bored
Who's scene is it
To be a mirror
Pictorial representation of the film
Eye contact

17. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
makes running a set more efficient
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Director

18. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Tell a story
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

19. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
To be a mirror
To eyes of the audience.
Who's scene is it
Director

20. What is the importance of close-ups?
Emotions and emphasis
Who's scene is it
Call sheets
Pictorial representation of the film

21. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Report to the 1st AD
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Repetition is the death of creativity
Yes cross out so they can focus more

22. What does gaffer do?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Show commitment show ability to perform
it's portable

23. What is a pitch in one world?
In visioning a result
Conversion
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
To have an idea of how they talk

24. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Eye contact
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.
Director

25. Why is craft services important?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Because that's result direction.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

26. What does gaffer do?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Repetition is the death of creativity
Pictorial representation of the film
Show commitment show ability to perform

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

28. What is result direction?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
In visioning a result
Keys

29. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Report to the 1st AD
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Director
makes running a set more efficient

30. A documentary is created in the...
Yes cross out so they can focus more
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
edit suite
Director

31. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Camera movement
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
edit suite

32. What is the importance of close-ups?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
B-Roll
Emotions and emphasis
In visioning a result

33. Why do you do a callback?
To be a mirror
Emotions and emphasis
Show commitment show ability to perform
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

34. Three important direction to give an actor.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Issue of power and sex

35. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Issue of power and sex
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Director
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

36. What is a pitch in one world?
What they gain.
They Need to observe
Conversion
Repetition is the death of creativity

37. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Result direction
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
To be a mirror
Eye contact

38. What is a story bored
Eye contact
Call sheets
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Pictorial representation of the film

39. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
B-Roll
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Issue of power and sex
Keys

40. 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
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Conversion

41. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
Emotions and emphasis
To have an idea of how they talk
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Report to the 1st AD

42. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Call sheets
Director
it's portable
Camera movement

43. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Because that's result direction.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Because that's result direction.
Issue of power and sex

44. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
B-Roll
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
it's portable

45. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Because that's result direction.
Call sheets
To eyes of the audience.

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

47. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Camera movement
Issue of power and sex
To eyes of the audience.
To eyes of the audience.

48. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
They Need to observe
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Keys
edit suite

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

50. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Keys
Show commitment show ability to perform
Emotions and emphasis
it's portable