Film Directing Exam

Instructions:

• Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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• Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. What is the importance of close-ups?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
To have an idea of how they talk
Emotions and emphasis
To eyes of the audience.


2. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Call sheets
Eye contact
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
it's portable


3. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Who's scene is it
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Because that's result direction.
They Need to observe


4. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
Director
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
To be a mirror
Result direction


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

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6. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
What they gain.
Call sheets
Keys
Director


7. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Report to the 1st AD
Director
Issue of power and sex
Eye contact


8. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
Report to the 1st AD
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Conversion
Result direction


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

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10. 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
Emotions and emphasis
Eye contact
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.


11. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
What they gain.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.


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

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13. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
edit suite
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
B-Roll
Call sheets


14. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
edit suite
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Tell a story
In visioning a result


15. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
To eyes of the audience.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Camera movement


16. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
Camera movement
Pictorial representation of the film
Show commitment show ability to perform
Report to the 1st AD


17. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
To eyes of the audience.
They Need to observe
Result direction
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.


18. Why do you do a callback?
To be a mirror
Result direction
it's portable
Show commitment show ability to perform


19. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
To have an idea of how they talk
Because that's result direction.


20. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Eye contact
Emotions and emphasis
makes running a set more efficient
Director


21. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Pictorial representation of the film
Director
B-Roll


22. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
B-Roll
Sitting and standing is more powerful
it's portable
Director


23. A documentary is created in the...
edit suite
Result direction
Camera movement
B-Roll


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

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25. What is a story bored
To be a mirror
Conversion
Pictorial representation of the film
In visioning a result


26. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
They Need to observe
Repetition is the death of creativity
Because that's result direction.


27. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
B-Roll
To be a mirror
What they gain.
Show commitment show ability to perform


28. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Repetition is the death of creativity
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
To have an idea of how they talk


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

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30. What does gaffer do?
Pictorial representation of the film
makes running a set more efficient
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
edit suite


31. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Pictorial representation of the film
Report to the 1st AD
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.


32. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
Keys
Show commitment show ability to perform
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
makes running a set more efficient


33. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
B-Roll
Director
Tell a story


34. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Tell a story
Who's scene is it
it's portable
Director


35. Why is craft services important?
B-Roll
They Need to observe
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Tell a story


36. What does gaffer do?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
makes running a set more efficient
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Report to the 1st AD


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

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38. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
They Need to observe
B-Roll
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Director


39. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
To eyes of the audience.
Tell a story
Director
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage


40. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Camera movement
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
To have an idea of how they talk
Issue of power and sex


41. 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
To eyes of the audience.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.


42. Why do you do a callback?
To eyes of the audience.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
edit suite
Show commitment show ability to perform


43. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
edit suite
Repetition is the death of creativity
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
To have an idea of how they talk


44. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Eye contact
Result direction
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Keys


45. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
To have an idea of how they talk
it's portable
Director
Emotions and emphasis


46. Why is craft services important?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Camera movement
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Who's scene is it


47. Three important direction to give an actor.
makes running a set more efficient
Report to the 1st AD
Show commitment show ability to perform
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.


48. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
What they gain.
it's portable
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
To eyes of the audience.


49. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Repetition is the death of creativity
Because that's result direction.
To have an idea of how they talk


50. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
To eyes of the audience.
B-Roll
Director