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. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
They Need to observe
Director


2. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
B-Roll
Report to the 1st AD
edit suite
Yes cross out so they can focus more


3. Why is craft services important?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
What they gain.
Call sheets


4. A documentary is created in the...
edit suite
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Director


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

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6. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Director
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Why not - b roll helps tell the story


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

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8. 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.
Eye contact
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
To eyes of the audience.


9. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
makes running a set more efficient
Report to the 1st AD


10. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Tell a story
B-Roll
Call sheets
Yes cross out so they can focus more


11. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
They Need to observe
Report to the 1st AD
Repetition is the death of creativity


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.
To have an idea of how they talk
Keys
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.


13. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Director
Because that's result direction.
To have an idea of how they talk
To be a mirror


14. What is a pitch in one world?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Conversion


15. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Camera movement
Call sheets
edit suite
Conversion


16. A documentary is created in the...
edit suite
Because that's result direction.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Show commitment show ability to perform


17. What is a pitch in one world?
Conversion
What they gain.
Pictorial representation of the film
Director


18. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Issue of power and sex
Tell a story
Eye contact


19. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Emotions and emphasis
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.


20. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Who's scene is it
To eyes of the audience.
In visioning a result
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage


21. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
What they gain.
B-Roll
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
To be a mirror


22. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Emotions and emphasis
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Camera movement


23. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
Because that's result direction.
Director
Call sheets
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage


24. 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.
makes running a set more efficient
To eyes of the audience.
Yes cross out so they can focus more


25. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Eye contact
Pictorial representation of the film
edit suite


26. What is a story bored
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Tell a story
Pictorial representation of the film
What they gain.


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

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28. What is the importance of close-ups?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Eye contact
Emotions and emphasis
To have an idea of how they talk


29. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Director
Emotions and emphasis
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.


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

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31. Why is craft services important?
To eyes of the audience.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Director
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.


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

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33. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
edit suite
Result direction
They Need to observe
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage


34. Why do you do a callback?
edit suite
Show commitment show ability to perform
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
In visioning a result


35. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
makes running a set more efficient
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Pictorial representation of the film
Issue of power and sex


36. What is result direction?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
In visioning a result
Because that's result direction.
Report to the 1st AD


37. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
Director
makes running a set more efficient
Repetition is the death of creativity
Director


38. Three important direction to give an actor.
edit suite
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.


39. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Director
Yes cross out so they can focus more
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.


40. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
They Need to observe
Repetition is the death of creativity
Call sheets


41. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Issue of power and sex
Sitting and standing is more powerful
makes running a set more efficient
You want to be there not looking at a screen.


42. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Show commitment show ability to perform
What they gain.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
edit suite


43. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.


44. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
To have an idea of how they talk
Because that's result direction.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.


45. What does gaffer do?
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
In visioning a result


46. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
What they gain.
edit suite
Director
B-Roll


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

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48. 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
Show commitment show ability to perform
B-Roll
In visioning a result


49. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
B-Roll
Emotions and emphasis
To eyes of the audience.
What they gain.


50. Three important direction to give an actor.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Emotions and emphasis
Eye contact
Report to the 1st AD