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Film Directing Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
it's portable
Show commitment show ability to perform
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
makes running a set more efficient

2. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
Because that's result direction.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Issue of power and sex
Report to the 1st AD

3. Why do you do a callback?
Pictorial representation of the film
Show commitment show ability to perform
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
In visioning a result

4. 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.
Keys
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

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

6. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
To be a mirror
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Tell a story

7. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
makes running a set more efficient
Sitting and standing is more powerful
To have an idea of how they talk
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

8. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Eye contact
Emotions and emphasis
it's portable

9. Three important direction to give an actor.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Eye contact
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Director

10. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
makes running a set more efficient
B-Roll
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

11. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
Director
Yes cross out so they can focus more
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Repetition is the death of creativity

12. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Result direction
To be a mirror
In visioning a result
To eyes of the audience.

13. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
To eyes of the audience.
To be a mirror
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Camera movement

14. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Camera movement
To have an idea of how they talk
Eye contact

15. What is a story bored
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Pictorial representation of the film
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Emotions and emphasis

16. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
Camera movement
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Call sheets
Conversion

17. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
it's portable
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Repetition is the death of creativity

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

19. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Pictorial representation of the film
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Call sheets
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

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

21. What is a pitch in one world?
What they gain.
Conversion
Pictorial representation of the film
Who's scene is it

22. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
What they gain.
Call sheets
Because that's result direction.
Issue of power and sex

23. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Eye contact
Director
What they gain.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

24. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Call sheets
Eye contact
Sitting and standing is more powerful
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

25. A documentary is created in the...
Call sheets
They Need to observe
edit suite
Repetition is the death of creativity

26. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Report to the 1st AD
Report to the 1st AD
makes running a set more efficient

27. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
In visioning a result
Director
Camera movement

28. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
makes running a set more efficient
Result direction
Tell a story
Who's scene is it

29. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Eye contact
edit suite
Director
Call sheets

30. What is a pitch in one world?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Conversion
edit suite
Repetition is the death of creativity

31. 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.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Who's scene is it

32. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Call sheets
Yes cross out so they can focus more
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Result direction

33. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Who's scene is it
Repetition is the death of creativity
Issue of power and sex
To eyes of the audience.

34. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Keys
Because that's result direction.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

35. 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
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Repetition is the death of creativity
What they gain.

36. Why is craft services important?
Show commitment show ability to perform
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

37. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
To eyes of the audience.
Issue of power and sex
Repetition is the death of creativity
Show commitment show ability to perform

38. What is the importance of close-ups?
B-Roll
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
To be a mirror
Emotions and emphasis

39. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Director
B-Roll
Show commitment show ability to perform

40. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Pictorial representation of the film
Keys
B-Roll
Yes cross out so they can focus more

41. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Director
Show commitment show ability to perform
In visioning a result
makes running a set more efficient

42. What does gaffer do?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
To have an idea of how they talk
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Camera movement

43. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
it's portable
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Emotions and emphasis
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

44. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Tell a story
Show commitment show ability to perform
Report to the 1st AD
Call sheets

45. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
They Need to observe
Eye contact
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Report to the 1st AD

46. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
To eyes of the audience.
To eyes of the audience.
Tell a story
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

47. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Director
Emotions and emphasis
They Need to observe
To eyes of the audience.

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

49. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
To have an idea of how they talk
Report to the 1st AD
Show commitment show ability to perform
edit suite

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