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Film Directing Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Why is craft services important?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Repetition is the death of creativity

2. What is a story bored
To be a mirror
Pictorial representation of the film
To have an idea of how they talk
To eyes of the audience.

3. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Issue of power and sex
Pictorial representation of the film
Camera movement
What they gain.

4. 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.
What they gain.
To be a mirror
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

5. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
To have an idea of how they talk
B-Roll
Tell a story
Director

6. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
To eyes of the audience.
What they gain.
What they gain.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

7. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Because that's result direction.
To have an idea of how they talk
makes running a set more efficient
They Need to observe

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

9. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
makes running a set more efficient
To eyes of the audience.
Conversion
Keys

10. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
To eyes of the audience.
B-Roll
They Need to observe
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

11. What is the importance of close-ups?
Emotions and emphasis
Sitting and standing is more powerful
B-Roll
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

12. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
Result direction
Issue of power and sex
makes running a set more efficient
Because that's result direction.

13. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Call sheets
To be a mirror
Tell a story
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

14. What is a pitch in one world?
Conversion
What they gain.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
What they gain.

15. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Who's scene is it
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

16. 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
Tell a story
Issue of power and sex

17. Why do you do a callback?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Tell a story
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Show commitment show ability to perform

18. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
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.
Show commitment show ability to perform

19. What does gaffer do?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
it's portable
Yes cross out so they can focus more

20. What is a story bored
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Pictorial representation of the film
Director

21. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Conversion
What they gain.
Emotions and emphasis
To eyes of the audience.

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

23. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Call sheets
it's portable
Emotions and emphasis
In visioning a result

24. Three important direction to give an actor.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Director
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

25. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Conversion
Show commitment show ability to perform
edit suite
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

26. What is result direction?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Conversion
In visioning a result
Because that's result direction.

27. A documentary is created in the...
They Need to observe
Because that's result direction.
edit suite
Camera movement

28. 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.
Camera movement
makes running a set more efficient
Director

29. What is the importance of close-ups?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Emotions and emphasis
Director
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

30. What is a pitch in one world?
Conversion
Because that's result direction.
Report to the 1st AD
Show commitment show ability to perform

31. 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
Director
Yes cross out so they can focus more
To be a mirror

32. What does gaffer do?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Who's scene is it
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Tell a story

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.
Tell a story
Conversion
To eyes of the audience.

34. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
it's portable
To have an idea of how they talk
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
makes running a set more efficient

35. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
makes running a set more efficient
Camera movement

36. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
To have an idea of how they talk
Result direction
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

37. 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
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Conversion
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

38. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Because that's result direction.
Camera movement
edit suite
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

39. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Call sheets
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
makes running a set more efficient
Conversion

40. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Call sheets
Repetition is the death of creativity
To have an idea of how they talk
In visioning a result

41. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
To eyes of the audience.
Conversion
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

42. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Keys
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
What they gain.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

43. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Because that's result direction.
edit suite
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
They Need to observe

44. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Eye contact
Issue of power and sex
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

45. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Report to the 1st AD
They Need to observe
What they gain.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

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

47. A documentary is created in the...
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
edit suite
Director
Sitting and standing is more powerful

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

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

50. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Camera movement
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Repetition is the death of creativity
Director