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. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
edit suite
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Why not - b roll helps tell the story


2. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Director


3. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Issue of power and sex
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
edit suite


4. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
edit suite
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
To be a mirror
B-Roll


5. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Director
To eyes of the audience.
Call sheets
Eye contact


6. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Conversion
Keys
What they gain.


7. A documentary is created in the...
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
To have an idea of how they talk
edit suite
They Need to observe


8. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Report to the 1st AD
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Result direction
Conversion


9. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
To be a mirror
To have an idea of how they talk
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Issue of power and sex


10. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
Who's scene is it
B-Roll
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Director


11. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Issue of power and sex
Because that's result direction.
They Need to observe


12. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Result direction
Eye contact
Director
Show commitment show ability to perform


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 does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Pictorial representation of the film
Conversion
What they gain.
Director


15. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Call sheets
Director
Conversion


16. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Report to the 1st AD
Eye contact
Repetition is the death of creativity
Conversion


17. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Issue of power and sex
Director
In visioning a result


18. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Camera movement
B-Roll
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.


19. 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
edit suite
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.


20. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
B-Roll
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.


21. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
makes running a set more efficient
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
it's portable


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

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23. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
Issue of power and sex
What they gain.
Tell a story
B-Roll


24. What is result direction?
In visioning a result
To be a mirror
Camera movement
Call sheets


25. What does gaffer do?
Director
Emotions and emphasis
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
In visioning a result


26. What is a story bored
it's portable
Camera movement
Pictorial representation of the film
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.


27. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
Director
Pictorial representation of the film
To have an idea of how they talk
Report to the 1st AD


28. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Result direction
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Director
edit suite


29. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Conversion
Keys
Pictorial representation of the film
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.


30. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
In visioning a result
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage


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

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

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33. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
makes running a set more efficient
To eyes of the audience.
Director


34. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
Repetition is the death of creativity
Issue of power and sex
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
To eyes of the audience.


35. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Eye contact
They Need to observe
Tell a story
To eyes of the audience.


36. What is a pitch in one world?
edit suite
Conversion
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage


37. What is the importance of close-ups?
Emotions and emphasis
edit suite
Call sheets
Director


38. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
They Need to observe
To eyes of the audience.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.


39. What is a story bored
Issue of power and sex
Director
Pictorial representation of the film
Call sheets


40. What is a pitch in one world?
edit suite
What they gain.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Conversion


41. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Director
What they gain.
Report to the 1st AD
Eye contact


42. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
makes running a set more efficient
Camera movement
To be a mirror
Report to the 1st AD


43. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
To be a mirror
To be a mirror
B-Roll
To eyes of the audience.


44. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
To have an idea of how they talk
Who's scene is it
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
To be a mirror


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

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46. Why do you do a callback?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Camera movement
Repetition is the death of creativity
Result direction


47. What is the importance of close-ups?
Emotions and emphasis
it's portable
Director
Sitting and standing is more powerful


48. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
To eyes of the audience.
In visioning a result
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Director


49. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
Result direction
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Because that's result direction.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage


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

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