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Film Directing Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is result direction?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
In visioning a result
Camera movement

2. A documentary is created in the...
edit suite
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
To be a mirror
Sitting and standing is more powerful

3. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Result direction
Director
What they gain.
makes running a set more efficient

4. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What they gain.
Keys
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

5. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Keys
Repetition is the death of creativity
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

6. What is the importance of close-ups?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Emotions and emphasis
Repetition is the death of creativity
In visioning a result

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

8. What does gaffer do?
Eye contact
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Keys
Show commitment show ability to perform

9. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Issue of power and sex
To be a mirror
In visioning a result

10. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
edit suite
In visioning a result
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
it's portable

11. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
edit suite
Director
What they gain.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

12. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Keys
Director
Tell a story

13. A documentary is created in the...
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
edit suite
To have an idea of how they talk
Tell a story

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

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15. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Keys
Report to the 1st AD
edit suite
Report to the 1st AD

16. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Report to the 1st AD
edit suite
B-Roll
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

17. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
To have an idea of how they talk
Camera movement
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
B-Roll

18. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Emotions and emphasis
Conversion

19. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Who's scene is it
To have an idea of how they talk
To eyes of the audience.

20. Why is craft services important?
Issue of power and sex
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Camera movement
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

21. Why do you do a callback?
To be a mirror
Show commitment show ability to perform
To have an idea of how they talk
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

22. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Director
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Repetition is the death of creativity
Camera movement

23. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Emotions and emphasis
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Keys

24. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Tell a story
Keys
B-Roll

25. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Report to the 1st AD
To eyes of the audience.
To be a mirror
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

26. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
To eyes of the audience.
makes running a set more efficient
Tell a story

27. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Director
Result direction
Show commitment show ability to perform
Conversion

28. What is a story bored
Pictorial representation of the film
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Call sheets
Issue of power and sex

29. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
Call sheets
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

30. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Repetition is the death of creativity
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Sitting and standing is more powerful
makes running a set more efficient

31. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Director
What they gain.
Eye contact
Pictorial representation of the film

32. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Issue of power and sex
To eyes of the audience.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Result direction

33. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Director
Pictorial representation of the film
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
They Need to observe

34. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Director
Keys
Tell a story

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

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36. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
To have an idea of how they talk
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Call sheets

37. 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
Who's scene is it
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

38. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
Camera movement
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Report to the 1st AD

39. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
To be a mirror
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

40. What is a story bored
Pictorial representation of the film
Keys
Yes cross out so they can focus more
To eyes of the audience.

41. 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?
Director
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Emotions and emphasis
Yes cross out so they can focus more

42. 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
Issue of power and sex
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Show commitment show ability to perform

43. What does gaffer do?
Eye contact
Eye contact
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

44. 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.
To eyes of the audience.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
What they gain.

45. 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.
Keys
B-Roll
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

46. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
makes running a set more efficient
B-Roll
Conversion

47. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
They Need to observe
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
makes running a set more efficient
Repetition is the death of creativity

48. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
Repetition is the death of creativity
Issue of power and sex
What they gain.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

49. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Result direction
To be a mirror
Show commitment show ability to perform
Because that's result direction.

50. Three important direction to give an actor.
Call sheets
To be a mirror
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.