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Film Directing Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Why is it important to do a paper edit for a documentary?

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2. What is a pitch in one world?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Repetition is the death of creativity
Conversion
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

3. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Issue of power and sex
To eyes of the audience.
Director
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

4. Three important direction to give an actor.
Call sheets
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Keys

5. Why is craft services important?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
edit suite
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
To eyes of the audience.

6. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
To be a mirror
They Need to observe
Director

7. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Camera movement
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Director
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

8. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
makes running a set more efficient
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Result direction

9. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
To be a mirror
Eye contact
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.

10. What is result direction?
In visioning a result
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Report to the 1st AD
Eye contact

11. 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
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Director

12. What does gaffer do?
Eye contact
Yes cross out so they can focus more
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Pictorial representation of the film

13. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
Result direction
Pictorial representation of the film
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

14. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Eye contact
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.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Who's scene is it
Issue of power and sex
Keys

16. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
They Need to observe
They Need to observe
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

17. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Keys
Report to the 1st AD
Eye contact
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

18. A documentary is created in the...
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
makes running a set more efficient
edit suite
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

19. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Repetition is the death of creativity
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
makes running a set more efficient

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

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21. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Call sheets
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
To be a mirror
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

22. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Who's scene is it
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Who's scene is it
Sitting and standing is more powerful

23. Why is craft services important?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
it's portable
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

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

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25. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Call sheets
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
To eyes of the audience.

26. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
To be a mirror
Keys
Issue of power and sex

27. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
B-Roll
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Issue of power and sex

28. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Call sheets
Report to the 1st AD
Emotions and emphasis
Director

29. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Conversion
B-Roll
They Need to observe
Call sheets

30. Why do you do a callback?
Emotions and emphasis
Director
Show commitment show ability to perform
Keys

31. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What they gain.
To eyes of the audience.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Repetition is the death of creativity

32. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Eye contact
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
To be a mirror
They Need to observe

33. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Call sheets
To have an idea of how they talk
Who's scene is it
Tell a story

34. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
Show commitment show ability to perform
makes running a set more efficient
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
In visioning a result

35. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
B-Roll
In visioning a result
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Result direction

36. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Camera movement
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Repetition is the death of creativity

37. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Call sheets
Pictorial representation of the film
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

38. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Result direction
it's portable
Who's scene is it

39. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
They Need to observe
Show commitment show ability to perform
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
To eyes of the audience.

40. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
B-Roll
Eye contact
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

41. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Report to the 1st AD
To eyes of the audience.
They Need to observe
B-Roll

42. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
To be a mirror
To have an idea of how they talk
Sitting and standing is more powerful

43. What is a story bored
Issue of power and sex
Pictorial representation of the film
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

44. 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.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

45. What is the importance of close-ups?
Because that's result direction.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Emotions and emphasis
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

46. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Eye contact
To be a mirror
Emotions and emphasis
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

47. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Tell a story
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Director
B-Roll

48. 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?
Keys
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Show commitment show ability to perform
Conversion

49. What is result direction?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Pictorial representation of the film
In visioning a result
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

50. What does gaffer do?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.