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Film Directing Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
B-Roll
They Need to observe
Issue of power and sex
Eye contact

2. 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
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Director
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

3. What is result direction?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
it's portable
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
In visioning a result

4. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
What they gain.
Report to the 1st AD
Keys
edit suite

5. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

6. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Pictorial representation of the film
To be a mirror

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

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

9. What is the importance of close-ups?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
They Need to observe
Emotions and emphasis
They Need to observe

10. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
To have an idea of how they talk
Emotions and emphasis
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Camera movement

11. A documentary is created in the...
Who's scene is it
Yes cross out so they can focus more
edit suite
Keys

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

13. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
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.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

14. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
Emotions and emphasis
Camera movement
Because that's result direction.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

15. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Keys
Issue of power and sex
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Tell a story

16. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
In visioning a result
Repetition is the death of creativity
makes running a set more efficient
Yes cross out so they can focus more

17. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Call sheets
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Result direction

18. Why is craft services important?
They Need to observe
Call sheets
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Sitting and standing is more powerful

19. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Result direction
Eye contact
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Report to the 1st AD

20. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Eye contact
Pictorial representation of the film
In visioning a result
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

21. 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?
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Yes cross out so they can focus more
To have an idea of how they talk
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

22. What is result direction?
it's portable
Pictorial representation of the film
Tell a story
In visioning a result

23. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Director
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Show commitment show ability to perform

24. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
makes running a set more efficient
To have an idea of how they talk
Show commitment show ability to perform
Keys

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

26. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Result direction
Camera movement
Because that's result direction.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

27. 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.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Pictorial representation of the film
To have an idea of how they talk

28. What is a story bored
Camera movement
Pictorial representation of the film
Repetition is the death of creativity
Sitting and standing is more powerful

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

30. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Report to the 1st AD
What they gain.

31. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
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.
Show commitment show ability to perform

32. 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?
Report to the 1st AD
Yes cross out so they can focus more
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

33. Three important direction to give an actor.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
They Need to observe
Because that's result direction.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

34. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Director
Director
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

35. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Keys
Issue of power and sex
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Eye contact

36. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
makes running a set more efficient
To have an idea of how they talk
Eye contact
Issue of power and sex

37. Three important direction to give an actor.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
To eyes of the audience.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

38. Why do you do a callback?
Repetition is the death of creativity
Yes cross out so they can focus more
They Need to observe
Show commitment show ability to perform

39. Why do you do a callback?
Pictorial representation of the film
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Who's scene is it
Show commitment show ability to perform

40. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
edit suite
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Repetition is the death of creativity
it's portable

41. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Eye contact
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Tell a story
it's portable

42. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
makes running a set more efficient
To eyes of the audience.
They Need to observe
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

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

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

45. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Call sheets
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Keys
Director

46. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
What they gain.
edit suite
Conversion
To have an idea of how they talk

47. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Issue of power and sex
Director

48. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
Conversion
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Director

49. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Conversion
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Report to the 1st AD
makes running a set more efficient

50. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Show commitment show ability to perform
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Eye contact