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?
Emotions and emphasis
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Director


2. What is a pitch in one world?
Conversion
Director
Result direction
To have an idea of how they talk


3. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Tell a story
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Director


4. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Result direction
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
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.


5. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
What they gain.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Show commitment show ability to perform


6. What is result direction?
In visioning a result
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Call sheets
Why not - b roll helps tell the story


7. What is result direction?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
In visioning a result
What they gain.
Eye contact


8. What is a story bored
Pictorial representation of the film
To have an idea of how they talk
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
To eyes of the audience.


9. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Report to the 1st AD
Eye contact
Eye contact
Call sheets


10. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Result direction
Director
Director
Show commitment show ability to perform


11. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Issue of power and sex
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
edit suite
Why not - b roll helps tell the story


12. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
To eyes of the audience.
Who's scene is it
Report to the 1st AD
Camera movement


13. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Call sheets
They Need to observe
Because that's result direction.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.


14. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What they gain.
makes running a set more efficient
Who's scene is it
Pictorial representation of the film


15. What does gaffer do?
Director
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Director
moves and sets the direction of DOP.


16. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Issue of power and sex
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Camera movement


17. 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
Result direction
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.


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?
In visioning a result
Yes cross out so they can focus more
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Pictorial representation of the film


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

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20. Why is craft services important?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Report to the 1st AD
Eye contact


21. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Director
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
In visioning a result
Keys


22. What is a pitch in one world?
it's portable
Conversion
They Need to observe
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.


23. Three important direction to give an actor.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Result direction
Conversion
They Need to observe


24. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
makes running a set more efficient
Issue of power and sex
Eye contact


25. What does gaffer do?
Because that's result direction.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
To eyes of the audience.


26. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
To be a mirror
makes running a set more efficient


27. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Who's scene is it
Eye contact
makes running a set more efficient
Result direction


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

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29. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Conversion


30. What is a story bored
Pictorial representation of the film
Emotions and emphasis
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
They Need to observe


31. Why do you do a callback?
To have an idea of how they talk
To be a mirror
Show commitment show ability to perform
Why not - b roll helps tell the story


32. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Because that's result direction.
Call sheets
Conversion


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

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34. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Camera movement
Report to the 1st AD


35. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Issue of power and sex
Eye contact
To be a mirror
Director


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


37. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
makes running a set more efficient
To be a mirror
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage


38. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
B-Roll
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage


39. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
To have an idea of how they talk
it's portable
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Call sheets


40. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
To be a mirror
What they gain.
Result direction
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.


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

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42. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Conversion
You want to be there not looking at a screen.


43. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Because that's result direction.
To be a mirror
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.


44. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
B-Roll
To eyes of the audience.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Sitting and standing is more powerful


45. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Call sheets
Camera movement
Pictorial representation of the film
Show commitment show ability to perform


46. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Keys
Show commitment show ability to perform
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
edit suite


47. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Because that's result direction.
Call sheets
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Camera movement


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

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


50. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Sitting and standing is more powerful
it's portable
B-Roll