Film Directing Exam

Instructions:

• Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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• Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
Show commitment show ability to perform
They Need to observe
Report to the 1st AD
Director


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
Director
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.


3. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Camera movement
In visioning a result
Sitting and standing is more powerful
To have an idea of how they talk


4. 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
In visioning a result
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Camera movement


5. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Conversion
To eyes of the audience.
Keys
Show commitment show ability to perform


6. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Report to the 1st AD
Sitting and standing is more powerful
it's portable
edit suite


7. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Tell a story
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Camera movement
moves and sets the direction of DOP.


8. 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
makes running a set more efficient
Issue of power and sex


9. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Eye contact
B-Roll
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.


10. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Camera movement
it's portable
Report to the 1st AD
Eye contact


11. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Director
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Conversion
edit suite


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

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13. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Tell a story
Report to the 1st AD
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Director


14. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Sitting and standing is more powerful
makes running a set more efficient
B-Roll


15. Why is craft services important?
Conversion
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Who's scene is it


16. What is a story bored
Keys
Pictorial representation of the film
They Need to observe
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.


17. What is result direction?
Conversion
it's portable
Report to the 1st AD
In visioning a result


18. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
What they gain.
Director
They Need to observe
Eye contact


19. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Repetition is the death of creativity
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Issue of power and sex
edit suite


20. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Repetition is the death of creativity
Emotions and emphasis
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Tell a story


21. What is a story bored
Director
Because that's result direction.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Pictorial representation of the film


22. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Repetition is the death of creativity
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Who's scene is it
B-Roll


23. What is result direction?
In visioning a result
Show commitment show ability to perform
To eyes of the audience.
To have an idea of how they talk


24. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Eye contact
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Why not - b roll helps tell the story


25. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
Call sheets
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
They Need to observe
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage


26. Why do you do a callback?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
What they gain.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Show commitment show ability to perform


27. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Result direction
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
edit suite
Yes cross out so they can focus more


28. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Director
Repetition is the death of creativity
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Sitting and standing is more powerful


29. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
They Need to observe
Conversion
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
makes running a set more efficient


30. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
They Need to observe
B-Roll
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
What they gain.


31. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Repetition is the death of creativity
Call sheets
They Need to observe
Pictorial representation of the film


32. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Because that's result direction.
Tell a story
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Keys


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.
Because that's result direction.
Report to the 1st AD
They Need to observe


34. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
B-Roll


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

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36. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Tell a story
They Need to observe
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Conversion


37. What does gaffer do?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Director
Who's scene is it
Result direction


38. What does gaffer do?
Result direction
Camera movement
Conversion
moves and sets the direction of DOP.


39. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Result direction
Keys
Director


40. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
They Need to observe
In visioning a result
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.


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

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42. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
To eyes of the audience.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
B-Roll
Conversion


43. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
They Need to observe
Show commitment show ability to perform
Director
Conversion


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

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

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46. What is the importance of close-ups?
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Report to the 1st AD
Emotions and emphasis
To be a mirror


47. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What they gain.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Director
Director


48. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
makes running a set more efficient
Result direction
Repetition is the death of creativity
Call sheets


49. Why is craft services important?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
makes running a set more efficient
edit suite
To be a mirror


50. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
To be a mirror
B-Roll
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Call sheets