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1. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
Director
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
To be a mirror
Yes cross out so they can focus more


2. What is the importance of close-ups?
Emotions and emphasis
Yes cross out so they can focus more
B-Roll
Keys


3. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Call sheets
Keys
edit suite


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

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5. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
B-Roll
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.


6. What is a story bored
Who's scene is it
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Eye contact
Pictorial representation of the film


7. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Conversion
In visioning a result
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage


8. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
They Need to observe
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Director


9. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Call sheets
Camera movement
Emotions and emphasis
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.


10. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
it's portable
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage


11. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
B-Roll
Pictorial representation of the film
Yes cross out so they can focus more
You want to be there not looking at a screen.


12. What is a pitch in one world?
Conversion
Eye contact
makes running a set more efficient
You want to be there not looking at a screen.


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

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14. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Camera movement
To have an idea of how they talk
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
To eyes of the audience.


15. What is result direction?
Call sheets
Result direction
In visioning a result
Why not - b roll helps tell the story


16. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
B-Roll
Pictorial representation of the film
Eye contact
They Need to observe


17. Why is craft services important?
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Pictorial representation of the film
Conversion
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.


18. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Show commitment show ability to perform
To be a mirror
Issue of power and sex
moves and sets the direction of DOP.


19. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
What they gain.
Keys
Who's scene is it
To have an idea of how they talk


20. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
makes running a set more efficient
Show commitment show ability to perform
Emotions and emphasis


21. A documentary is created in the...
Who's scene is it
Issue of power and sex
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
edit suite


22. What is result direction?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
In visioning a result
What they gain.
Issue of power and sex


23. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
What they gain.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Call sheets


24. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Pictorial representation of the film
Because that's result direction.
Keys


25. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
What they gain.
To have an idea of how they talk
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Issue of power and sex


26. Why do you do a callback?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Keys
Show commitment show ability to perform
B-Roll


27. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
it's portable
Repetition is the death of creativity
makes running a set more efficient


28. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
Emotions and emphasis
Show commitment show ability to perform
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
They Need to observe


29. Why is craft services important?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Conversion
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.


30. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Camera movement
Keys
edit suite
Conversion


31. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
What they gain.
it's portable
To eyes of the audience.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.


32. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Eye contact
Eye contact
B-Roll


33. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Camera movement
Director


34. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
To have an idea of how they talk
Report to the 1st AD
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.


35. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Issue of power and sex
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Result direction
Show commitment show ability to perform


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

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

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38. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
makes running a set more efficient
Tell a story
Sitting and standing is more powerful
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage


39. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
To be a mirror
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Director


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

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41. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Director
B-Roll
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Report to the 1st AD


42. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Show commitment show ability to perform
Because that's result direction.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.


43. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Call sheets
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Tell a story


44. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Keys
Issue of power and sex
To eyes of the audience.
To be a mirror


45. What is a story bored
Repetition is the death of creativity
Tell a story
Pictorial representation of the film
Show commitment show ability to perform


46. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Eye contact
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Call sheets
Director


47. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
Eye contact
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Issue of power and sex
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage


48. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Keys
Report to the 1st AD


49. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
it's portable
Sitting and standing is more powerful
What they gain.


50. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
To have an idea of how they talk
makes running a set more efficient
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Sitting and standing is more powerful