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 a pitch in one world?
Conversion
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Pictorial representation of the film
Issue of power and sex


2. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
makes running a set more efficient
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Camera movement
To eyes of the audience.


3. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Tell a story
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Keys


4. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
They Need to observe
Sitting and standing is more powerful
In visioning a result


5. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Pictorial representation of the film
Result direction
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.


6. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
edit suite
Tell a story
Result direction
Director


7. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Issue of power and sex
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Emotions and emphasis
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.


8. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Pictorial representation of the film
What they gain.
Report to the 1st AD
Director


9. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Call sheets
Conversion
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.


10. Three important direction to give an actor.
What they gain.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Pictorial representation of the film
Repetition is the death of creativity


11. Three important direction to give an actor.
Show commitment show ability to perform
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story


12. What is result direction?
Pictorial representation of the film
Yes cross out so they can focus more
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
In visioning a result


13. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
To have an idea of how they talk
Eye contact
Sitting and standing is more powerful
You want to be there not looking at a screen.


14. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Eye contact
Emotions and emphasis
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage


15. 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?
Show commitment show ability to perform
it's portable
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Call sheets


16. What does gaffer do?
B-Roll
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Yes cross out so they can focus more


17. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Issue of power and sex
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
What they gain.


18. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
edit suite
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
They Need to observe
Why not - b roll helps tell the story


19. What is the importance of close-ups?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Pictorial representation of the film
Emotions and emphasis
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.


20. What is result direction?
In visioning a result
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Eye contact


21. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Result direction
Issue of power and sex
Repetition is the death of creativity


22. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
Camera movement
Eye contact
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
B-Roll


23. 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.
To be a mirror
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Because that's result direction.


24. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
Director
To have an idea of how they talk
B-Roll
Sitting and standing is more powerful


25. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Because that's result direction.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
You want to be there not looking at a screen.


26. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
They Need to observe
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Issue of power and sex
To be a mirror


27. A documentary is created in the...
To be a mirror
To have an idea of how they talk
edit suite
Why not - b roll helps tell the story


28. What is a story bored
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Pictorial representation of the film
Who's scene is it
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.


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


30. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
To have an idea of how they talk
Director
it's portable
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage


31. 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
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Eye contact
Conversion


32. Why is craft services important?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Repetition is the death of creativity
To be a mirror
To be a mirror


33. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
They Need to observe
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Director
Report to the 1st AD


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


35. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
makes running a set more efficient
Camera movement
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.


36. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Eye contact
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
To be a mirror
Director


37. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
To have an idea of how they talk
To have an idea of how they talk
To be a mirror
Report to the 1st AD


38. What is the importance of close-ups?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Emotions and emphasis
Issue of power and sex
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.


39. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Who's scene is it
Keys
Why not - b roll helps tell the story


40. What is a pitch in one world?
Tell a story
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Conversion
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.


41. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
To eyes of the audience.
Result direction
Repetition is the death of creativity
What they gain.


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


43. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Result direction
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Sitting and standing is more powerful


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


45. Why is craft services important?
Repetition is the death of creativity
Repetition is the death of creativity
Because that's result direction.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.


46. 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
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Director


47. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
In visioning a result
Director
To be a mirror
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.


48. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Result direction
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Sitting and standing is more powerful


49. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
makes running a set more efficient
Report to the 1st AD
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.


50. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
makes running a set more efficient
Issue of power and sex
To eyes of the audience.