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Film Directing Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
To be a mirror
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
makes running a set more efficient
Conversion

2. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Keys
They Need to observe
Report to the 1st AD
Who's scene is it

3. 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
Tell a story
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

4. A documentary is created in the...
it's portable
Emotions and emphasis
edit suite
To be a mirror

5. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What they gain.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
edit suite

6. 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
In visioning a result
Repetition is the death of creativity

7. What is a story bored
Pictorial representation of the film
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Camera movement
In visioning a result

8. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
What they gain.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
makes running a set more efficient

9. What is the importance of close-ups?
Emotions and emphasis
They Need to observe
Eye contact
Sitting and standing is more powerful

10. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Emotions and emphasis
To eyes of the audience.
Call sheets
To be a mirror

11. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
To be a mirror
Camera movement
Who's scene is it
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

12. Three important direction to give an actor.
Camera movement
makes running a set more efficient
edit suite
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

13. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
B-Roll
Yes cross out so they can focus more
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

14. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Call sheets
Eye contact
B-Roll

15. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Conversion
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Emotions and emphasis

16. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
Result direction
Who's scene is it
Report to the 1st AD
Show commitment show ability to perform

17. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
To eyes of the audience.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

18. Why do you do a callback?
Emotions and emphasis
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Yes cross out so they can focus more

19. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
B-Roll
Conversion
Report to the 1st AD
Tell a story

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

21. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Conversion
Call sheets
Camera movement
Pictorial representation of the film

22. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
In visioning a result
Camera movement
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
To eyes of the audience.

23. What is result direction?
They Need to observe
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
In visioning a result
Camera movement

24. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Result direction
To eyes of the audience.
Director
B-Roll

25. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
What they gain.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Keys

26. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
What they gain.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Issue of power and sex
What they gain.

27. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Repetition is the death of creativity
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
To have an idea of how they talk

28. A documentary is created in the...
They Need to observe
edit suite
Tell a story
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

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

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30. Why do you do a callback?
Show commitment show ability to perform
it's portable
Conversion
Because that's result direction.

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

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32. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Keys
Show commitment show ability to perform
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Eye contact

33. 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.
B-Roll
makes running a set more efficient
Result direction

34. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Report to the 1st AD
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Conversion

35. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
To eyes of the audience.
Who's scene is it
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

36. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Pictorial representation of the film
To be a mirror
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

37. What is the importance of close-ups?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
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.

38. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
To be a mirror
Because that's result direction.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Result direction

39. Why is craft services important?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
To be a mirror
Call sheets
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

40. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Call sheets
What they gain.
makes running a set more efficient

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

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42. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Director
Because that's result direction.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

43. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Eye contact
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Repetition is the death of creativity

44. What does gaffer do?
Keys
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Conversion
Tell a story

45. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Director
Keys
They Need to observe
Tell a story

46. What is a pitch in one world?
Repetition is the death of creativity
Conversion
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Result direction

47. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
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.
B-Roll
Result direction

48. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
To eyes of the audience.
Emotions and emphasis
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

49. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Keys
To eyes of the audience.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

50. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Eye contact
To have an idea of how they talk
Because that's result direction.
Conversion