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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. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

2. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
To be a mirror
Conversion
Sitting and standing is more powerful
To have an idea of how they talk

3. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Eye contact
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
They Need to observe
Conversion

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

5. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
B-Roll
Repetition is the death of creativity
Sitting and standing is more powerful

6. Why do you do a callback?
B-Roll
Show commitment show ability to perform
Yes cross out so they can focus more
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

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

8. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Director
Eye contact
Keys

9. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Pictorial representation of the film
To eyes of the audience.
Director
In visioning a result

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

11. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Because that's result direction.
Result direction
makes running a set more efficient

12. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Result direction
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
To be a mirror
They Need to observe

13. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Who's scene is it
Emotions and emphasis
What they gain.

14. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
They Need to observe
Emotions and emphasis
Report to the 1st AD

15. Why do you do a callback?
Conversion
Tell a story
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Show commitment show ability to perform

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

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

18. 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?
They Need to observe
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Camera movement
B-Roll

19. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Call sheets
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

20. Why is craft services important?
Director
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
To eyes of the audience.

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

22. 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
Who's scene is it
Director
In visioning a result

23. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
B-Roll
To be a mirror
Issue of power and sex

24. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
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.
Repetition is the death of creativity
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

25. Three important direction to give an actor.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Keys
To be a mirror

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

27. A documentary is created in the...
Pictorial representation of the film
To have an idea of how they talk
edit suite
Report to the 1st AD

28. What is result direction?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Keys
In visioning a result
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

29. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Director
To eyes of the audience.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Because that's result direction.

30. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Report to the 1st AD
What they gain.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Show commitment show ability to perform

31. What is the importance of close-ups?
Call sheets
it's portable
Eye contact
Emotions and emphasis

32. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
edit suite
To eyes of the audience.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Issue of power and sex

33. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
makes running a set more efficient
Director
Call sheets
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

34. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Issue of power and sex
Conversion
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Keys

35. What is result direction?
To be a mirror
Because that's result direction.
What they gain.
In visioning a result

36. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
B-Roll
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Sitting and standing is more powerful

37. What is a story bored
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
edit suite
Pictorial representation of the film
To eyes of the audience.

38. 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.
edit suite
To be a mirror
Yes cross out so they can focus more

39. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
Call sheets
They Need to observe
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

40. What is a story bored
Call sheets
Pictorial representation of the film
Result direction
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

41. 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
Pictorial representation of the film
Because that's result direction.

42. What is a pitch in one world?
Conversion
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Yes cross out so they can focus more

43. Three important direction to give an actor.
Keys
Because that's result direction.
Emotions and emphasis
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

44. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Repetition is the death of creativity
Camera movement
makes running a set more efficient
To have an idea of how they talk

45. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Result direction
Eye contact
it's portable

46. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
To eyes of the audience.
Emotions and emphasis
Conversion
To have an idea of how they talk

47. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Because that's result direction.
Tell a story
In visioning a result
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

48. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
Eye contact
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
To eyes of the audience.
Call sheets

49. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Tell a story
To have an idea of how they talk
edit suite

50. What is the importance of close-ups?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Emotions and emphasis
Show commitment show ability to perform
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage