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Film Directing Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Three important direction to give an actor.
Who's scene is it
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

2. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
They Need to observe
Because that's result direction.

3. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
To eyes of the audience.
To have an idea of how they talk
Pictorial representation of the film

4. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Camera movement
Eye contact
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Result direction

5. Why do you do a callback?
Show commitment show ability to perform
To eyes of the audience.
Who's scene is it
B-Roll

6. What is result direction?
In visioning a result
Pictorial representation of the film
makes running a set more efficient
Call sheets

7. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
To have an idea of how they talk
They Need to observe
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

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

9. What is a story bored
Issue of power and sex
Pictorial representation of the film
it's portable
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

10. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Call sheets
Issue of power and sex
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

11. Why do you do a callback?
To be a mirror
B-Roll
To eyes of the audience.
Show commitment show ability to perform

12. 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.
it's portable
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
To have an idea of how they talk

13. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Tell a story
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Issue of power and sex
Keys

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

15. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Repetition is the death of creativity
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Call sheets
What they gain.

16. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Report to the 1st AD
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Conversion
Issue of power and sex

17. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
makes running a set more efficient
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Emotions and emphasis
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

18. Why is craft services important?
To be a mirror
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Who's scene is it
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

19. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Director
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

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

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

22. 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?
B-Roll
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
In visioning a result
Yes cross out so they can focus more

23. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
edit suite
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Issue of power and sex
Camera movement

24. What is the importance of close-ups?
Keys
To be a mirror
Emotions and emphasis
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

25. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
They Need to observe
Keys
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

26. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Call sheets
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

27. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
They Need to observe
B-Roll
Repetition is the death of creativity
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

28. What is a story bored
Pictorial representation of the film
B-Roll
In visioning a result
What they gain.

29. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Camera movement
They Need to observe
Tell a story
To eyes of the audience.

30. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
Emotions and emphasis
Because that's result direction.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Report to the 1st AD

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

32. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Keys
What they gain.
Director
In visioning a result

33. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
To have an idea of how they talk
Eye contact
Show commitment show ability to perform

34. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
Repetition is the death of creativity
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
it's portable
B-Roll

35. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
To be a mirror

36. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Keys
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
it's portable

37. Why is craft services important?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Tell a story

38. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
Result direction
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
In visioning a result
makes running a set more efficient

39. What is the importance of close-ups?
Emotions and emphasis
Issue of power and sex
To be a mirror
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

40. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Emotions and emphasis
Camera movement
Report to the 1st AD

41. Three important direction to give an actor.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
What they gain.
Keys

42. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What they gain.
Conversion
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

43. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
Who's scene is it
Sitting and standing is more powerful
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Keys

44. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Emotions and emphasis
Director
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

45. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Director
Emotions and emphasis
Who's scene is it
Because that's result direction.

46. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
In visioning a result
Tell a story
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
To have an idea of how they talk

47. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
They Need to observe
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Tell a story

48. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
Issue of power and sex
Report to the 1st AD
Tell a story
Show commitment show ability to perform

49. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Report to the 1st AD
Pictorial representation of the film
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
They Need to observe

50. What is a pitch in one world?
Who's scene is it
Eye contact
Conversion
Result direction