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Film Directing Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. What is the benefit of a written story bored over a drawn storyboard?

2. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Emotions and emphasis
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
B-Roll
Because that's result direction.

3. 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
Because that's result direction.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Report to the 1st AD

4. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Call sheets
makes running a set more efficient
Director

5. What is a pitch in one world?
Conversion
What they gain.
They Need to observe
Keys

6. A documentary is created in the...
Repetition is the death of creativity
edit suite
Emotions and emphasis
Director

7. What is a story bored
Pictorial representation of the film
Because that's result direction.
What they gain.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

8. Why do you do a callback?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Call sheets
Because that's result direction.
Show commitment show ability to perform

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

10. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Report to the 1st AD
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
To eyes of the audience.

11. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
makes running a set more efficient
Keys
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Because that's result direction.

12. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Show commitment show ability to perform
To eyes of the audience.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Eye contact

13. 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.
Report to the 1st AD
Repetition is the death of creativity
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

14. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
it's portable
makes running a set more efficient
Yes cross out so they can focus more
To eyes of the audience.

15. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Director
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
it's portable
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

16. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
B-Roll
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Camera movement

17. 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.
To have an idea of how they talk
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Show commitment show ability to perform

18. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Tell a story
In visioning a result

19. What is the importance of close-ups?
edit suite
Repetition is the death of creativity
Emotions and emphasis
Yes cross out so they can focus more

20. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
it's portable
Keys
Issue of power and sex
Sitting and standing is more powerful

21. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Eye contact
Issue of power and sex
Repetition is the death of creativity
Because that's result direction.

22. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
makes running a set more efficient
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

23. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Who's scene is it

24. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
To eyes of the audience.
What they gain.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
To have an idea of how they talk

25. What is the importance of close-ups?
Call sheets
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Emotions and emphasis
Camera movement

26. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
To eyes of the audience.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
makes running a set more efficient
edit suite

27. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
They Need to observe

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

29. Why is craft services important?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
edit suite
Camera movement
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

30. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Report to the 1st AD

31. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
Sitting and standing is more powerful
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Who's scene is it
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

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?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
makes running a set more efficient
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Report to the 1st AD

33. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Report to the 1st AD
In visioning a result
To be a mirror

34. What does gaffer do?
Conversion
Call sheets
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Repetition is the death of creativity

35. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Camera movement
Repetition is the death of creativity
Conversion
Issue of power and sex

36. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
To be a mirror
Repetition is the death of creativity
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

37. What is a story bored
To eyes of the audience.
Pictorial representation of the film
Eye contact
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

38. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Repetition is the death of creativity
Director
makes running a set more efficient
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

39. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
To eyes of the audience.
B-Roll
Because that's result direction.

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

41. What is a pitch in one world?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Conversion
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Camera movement

42. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
To be a mirror
Eye contact
Director

43. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Because that's result direction.
Repetition is the death of creativity
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Camera movement

44. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Because that's result direction.
Keys
Tell a story
makes running a set more efficient

45. What does gaffer do?
Because that's result direction.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
To have an idea of how they talk

46. What is result direction?
makes running a set more efficient
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Repetition is the death of creativity
In visioning a result

47. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Director
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Eye contact
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

48. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Because that's result direction.
They Need to observe
What they gain.
Call sheets

49. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Eye contact
They Need to observe
Camera movement
To be a mirror

50. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
B-Roll
Eye contact
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story