Film Directing Exam

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• Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
To eyes of the audience.
What they gain.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.


2. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Report to the 1st AD
Emotions and emphasis
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Tell a story


3. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Who's scene is it
Tell a story
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Issue of power and sex


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

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5. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
In visioning a result
Keys
They Need to observe


6. A documentary is created in the...
Result direction
makes running a set more efficient
To be a mirror
edit suite


7. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Conversion
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Eye contact
Camera movement


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

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9. 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.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Eye contact
Tell a story


10. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Yes cross out so they can focus more
To have an idea of how they talk
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
In visioning a result


11. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
To eyes of the audience.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Camera movement
Conversion


12. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
Repetition is the death of creativity
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
B-Roll
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.


13. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
B-Roll
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.


14. What is a story bored
Pictorial representation of the film
In visioning a result
To eyes of the audience.
Tell a story


15. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What they gain.
To be a mirror
Eye contact
Yes cross out so they can focus more


16. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
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
Eye contact


17. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Director
In visioning a result
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
To have an idea of how they talk


18. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Result direction
Show commitment show ability to perform
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage


19. Why is craft services important?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
In visioning a result
B-Roll
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage


20. What is result direction?
Issue of power and sex
Result direction
In visioning a result
You want to be there not looking at a screen.


21. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Who's scene is it
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.


22. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Who's scene is it
Repetition is the death of creativity
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Director


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

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24. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Director
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
edit suite
To have an idea of how they talk


25. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Emotions and emphasis
Because that's result direction.
Keys
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.


26. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Issue of power and sex
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Call sheets
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage


27. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
In visioning a result
Because that's result direction.
Issue of power and sex


28. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
B-Roll
To eyes of the audience.


29. A documentary is created in the...
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
edit suite
What they gain.


30. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
B-Roll
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Director


31. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Keys
Report to the 1st AD
Issue of power and sex
it's portable


32. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
B-Roll
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.


33. 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?
Because that's result direction.
They Need to observe
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Director


34. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Call sheets
To have an idea of how they talk
Result direction
Director


35. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
it's portable
Pictorial representation of the film
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Show commitment show ability to perform


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

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

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

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39. What does gaffer do?
Pictorial representation of the film
makes running a set more efficient
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.


40. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Who's scene is it
Conversion
To be a mirror
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.


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?
Pictorial representation of the film
B-Roll
Tell a story
Yes cross out so they can focus more


42. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Tell a story
Camera movement
it's portable
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.


43. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What they gain.
Director
Report to the 1st AD
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.


44. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
Eye contact
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Sitting and standing is more powerful
B-Roll


45. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Emotions and emphasis
To eyes of the audience.
Result direction


46. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
To eyes of the audience.
Report to the 1st AD
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Tell a story


47. What is a pitch in one world?
makes running a set more efficient
Conversion
Tell a story
Eye contact


48. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
edit suite
Tell a story


49. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Keys
Director
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Repetition is the death of creativity


50. Three important direction to give an actor.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Result direction
To eyes of the audience.
Director