Film Directing Exam

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• Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.


2. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
What they gain.
Report to the 1st AD
Because that's result direction.
Pictorial representation of the film


3. Why is craft services important?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
To have an idea of how they talk
They Need to observe
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.


4. 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
Issue of power and sex
makes running a set more efficient
Show commitment show ability to perform


5. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Tell a story
To be a mirror


6. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Repetition is the death of creativity
Pictorial representation of the film
B-Roll


7. 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
makes running a set more efficient
Emotions and emphasis


8. Why do you do a callback?
Show commitment show ability to perform
What they gain.
Conversion
B-Roll


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

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

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11. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Call sheets
Keys


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

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

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14. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Result direction
To be a mirror
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Eye contact


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

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16. 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 be a mirror
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Because that's result direction.
Director


17. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
it's portable
In visioning a result
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.


18. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
Director
makes running a set more efficient
B-Roll
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.


19. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
Show commitment show ability to perform
In visioning a result
makes running a set more efficient
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.


20. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Director
Conversion
Emotions and emphasis
moves and sets the direction of DOP.


21. Three important direction to give an actor.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Call sheets
They Need to observe
Tell a story


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


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

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24. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
B-Roll


25. What is a story bored
Issue of power and sex
makes running a set more efficient
Pictorial representation of the film
Show commitment show ability to perform


26. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Emotions and emphasis
Call sheets


27. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
They Need to observe
Conversion
Report to the 1st AD
Camera movement


28. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What they gain.
Camera movement
In visioning a result
Tell a story


29. A documentary is created in the...
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
edit suite
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.


30. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Emotions and emphasis
In visioning a result
Issue of power and sex
Result direction


31. What is a pitch in one world?
Tell a story
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Conversion
Issue of power and sex


32. 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
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Camera movement


33. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
it's portable
What they gain.
B-Roll
Eye contact


34. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
To eyes of the audience.
Report to the 1st AD
Issue of power and sex
B-Roll


35. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
In visioning a result
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
What they gain.
To eyes of the audience.


36. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Keys
Tell a story
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Director


37. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Result direction
Emotions and emphasis
To have an idea of how they talk


38. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
edit suite
They Need to observe
To eyes of the audience.


39. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Issue of power and sex
Camera movement
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Report to the 1st AD


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


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?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
B-Roll
edit suite
Camera movement


42. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Report to the 1st AD
To eyes of the audience.
To be a mirror
Show commitment show ability to perform


43. What is a story bored
Pictorial representation of the film
In visioning a result
makes running a set more efficient
B-Roll


44. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Eye contact
Director
Emotions and emphasis
Pictorial representation of the film


45. 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.
Keys
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Why not - b roll helps tell the story


46. What does gaffer do?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
In visioning a result


47. What is the importance of close-ups?
Report to the 1st AD
Tell a story
Emotions and emphasis
moves and sets the direction of DOP.


48. What is result direction?
Repetition is the death of creativity
In visioning a result
What they gain.
To have an idea of how they talk


49. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Eye contact
What they gain.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Issue of power and sex


50. Why do you do a callback?
They Need to observe
Keys
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Show commitment show ability to perform