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Film Directing Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Why do you do a callback?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Show commitment show ability to perform
Eye contact
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

2. 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.
it's portable
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Who's scene is it

3. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
it's portable
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Yes cross out so they can focus more

4. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
it's portable
To eyes of the audience.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Sitting and standing is more powerful

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

6. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Keys
Who's scene is it
Pictorial representation of the film
Show commitment show ability to perform

7. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Camera movement
edit suite
In visioning a result
Issue of power and sex

8. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
Camera movement
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

9. A documentary is created in the...
edit suite
To have an idea of how they talk
Director
Repetition is the death of creativity

10. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What they gain.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Eye contact

11. Three important direction to give an actor.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Who's scene is it
Repetition is the death of creativity
Eye contact

12. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
To have an idea of how they talk
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
To be a mirror

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

14. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
makes running a set more efficient
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Emotions and emphasis
Result direction

15. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Emotions and emphasis
Repetition is the death of creativity
To eyes of the audience.
Director

16. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Director
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

17. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
What they gain.
They Need to observe
Repetition is the death of creativity

18. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Repetition is the death of creativity

19. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
To eyes of the audience.
They Need to observe
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

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

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

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

23. Why is craft services important?
What they gain.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Emotions and emphasis
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

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

25. What is a pitch in one world?
Conversion
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Who's scene is it

26. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Emotions and emphasis
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Director
What they gain.

27. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
Show commitment show ability to perform
To be a mirror
B-Roll
Result direction

28. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
In visioning a result
Result direction
Result direction
To be a mirror

29. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Pictorial representation of the film
To be a mirror
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Repetition is the death of creativity

30. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
To eyes of the audience.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Eye contact
Tell a story

31. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Show commitment show ability to perform
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Keys

32. A documentary is created in the...
edit suite
Issue of power and sex
Because that's result direction.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

33. Three important direction to give an actor.
To eyes of the audience.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
makes running a set more efficient
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

34. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
To eyes of the audience.
Sitting and standing is more powerful

35. What is a story bored
Tell a story
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Emotions and emphasis
Pictorial representation of the film

36. What does gaffer do?
Director
Tell a story
Issue of power and sex
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

37. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
To eyes of the audience.
Director
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Sitting and standing is more powerful

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

39. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Director
Eye contact
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

40. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Tell a story
Director
Pictorial representation of the film
Conversion

41. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Issue of power and sex
Call sheets
Conversion

42. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
To have an idea of how they talk
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
To eyes of the audience.
Emotions and emphasis

43. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Camera movement
To eyes of the audience.
In visioning a result
B-Roll

44. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Conversion
B-Roll
Pictorial representation of the film
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

45. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Director
Eye contact

46. What is a pitch in one world?
Because that's result direction.
Conversion
makes running a set more efficient
They Need to observe

47. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
makes running a set more efficient
They Need to observe
Pictorial representation of the film
Emotions and emphasis

48. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Call sheets
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Tell a story
Repetition is the death of creativity

49. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Show commitment show ability to perform
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Repetition is the death of creativity
Result direction

50. What is result direction?
Because that's result direction.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
In visioning a result