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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 benefit of a written story bored over a drawn storyboard?

2. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Because that's result direction.
Tell a story
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Keys

3. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
To be a mirror
makes running a set more efficient
B-Roll

4. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Director
B-Roll

5. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
makes running a set more efficient
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Emotions and emphasis

6. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Eye contact
Director
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
What they gain.

7. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
What they gain.
edit suite

8. 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
To eyes of the audience.
They Need to observe
Repetition is the death of creativity

9. A documentary is created in the...
Conversion
edit suite
To be a mirror
Call sheets

10. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
To have an idea of how they talk
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
To eyes of the audience.

11. 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.
Emotions and emphasis
Director
Eye contact

12. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
To eyes of the audience.
Emotions and emphasis
B-Roll
Call sheets

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

14. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
makes running a set more efficient
Report to the 1st AD
Issue of power and sex
Pictorial representation of the film

15. Three important direction to give an actor.
Keys
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Issue of power and sex

16. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
Report to the 1st AD
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
To be a mirror
Eye contact

17. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
In visioning a result
To have an idea of how they talk
Director
Show commitment show ability to perform

18. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Who's scene is it
To eyes of the audience.
Yes cross out so they can focus more

19. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Eye contact
makes running a set more efficient
Report to the 1st AD

20. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Show commitment show ability to perform
In visioning a result
To have an idea of how they talk
Call sheets

21. What is a story bored
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Emotions and emphasis
Eye contact
Pictorial representation of the film

22. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
makes running a set more efficient
Result direction
Show commitment show ability to perform
Issue of power and sex

23. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Emotions and emphasis
Report to the 1st AD
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

24. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Because that's result direction.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

25. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
To be a mirror
Eye contact
Call sheets
Result direction

26. What is the importance of close-ups?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Emotions and emphasis
To eyes of the audience.
Eye contact

27. What is result direction?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
makes running a set more efficient
In visioning a result
Pictorial representation of the film

28. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
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.
Conversion
To have an idea of how they talk

29. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
In visioning a result
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
They Need to observe
To have an idea of how they talk

30. 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
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
makes running a set more efficient
Report to the 1st AD

31. What is the importance of close-ups?
Emotions and emphasis
Repetition is the death of creativity
Who's scene is it
it's portable

32. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
Report to the 1st AD
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
B-Roll

33. Why do you do a callback?
Eye contact
Conversion
Show commitment show ability to perform
Director

34. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
makes running a set more efficient
Keys
Result direction
B-Roll

35. What is result direction?
Issue of power and sex
Emotions and emphasis
Tell a story
In visioning a result

36. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Keys
What they gain.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
it's portable

37. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
They Need to observe
To eyes of the audience.
They Need to observe
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

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

39. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
They Need to observe
Eye contact
Director

40. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
it's portable
it's portable
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

41. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
What they gain.
Tell a story
Keys

42. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Repetition is the death of creativity
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
edit suite

43. What does gaffer do?
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.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

44. 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.
They Need to observe
makes running a set more efficient
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

45. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Keys
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Who's scene is it

46. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Eye contact
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Director
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

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

48. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
To eyes of the audience.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
To eyes of the audience.
Because that's result direction.

49. What is a pitch in one world?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
B-Roll
Result direction
Conversion

50. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Eye contact
To be a mirror