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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?

2. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Conversion
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Result direction
What they gain.

3. What is a pitch in one world?
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.
Conversion
Repetition is the death of creativity

4. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Result direction
To have an idea of how they talk
Keys
it's portable

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

6. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
They Need to observe
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Sitting and standing is more powerful

7. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
To be a mirror

8. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Emotions and emphasis
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Report to the 1st AD

9. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Result direction
What they gain.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
They Need to observe

10. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
They Need to observe
edit suite
What they gain.
Keys

11. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
To eyes of the audience.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Director
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

12. 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
What they gain.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Director

13. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Tell a story
Director
In visioning a result
edit suite

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

15. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Tell a story
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Repetition is the death of creativity
Camera movement

16. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
makes running a set more efficient
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Pictorial representation of the film
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

17. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
To have an idea of how they talk
Camera movement
makes running a set more efficient

18. What does gaffer do?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

19. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
edit suite
Emotions and emphasis
Sitting and standing is more powerful
To have an idea of how they talk

20. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
makes running a set more efficient
Director

21. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
makes running a set more efficient
Because that's result direction.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

22. A documentary is created in the...
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
To have an idea of how they talk
it's portable
edit suite

23. What is result direction?
Director
To eyes of the audience.
In visioning a result
Tell a story

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

25. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Result direction
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Director
Emotions and emphasis

26. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
To be a mirror
Director
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Emotions and emphasis

27. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Keys
Pictorial representation of the film
Eye contact
They Need to observe

28. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
To be a mirror
Tell a story
Camera movement
Eye contact

29. Why is craft services important?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Director
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

30. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
They Need to observe
Call sheets
To eyes of the audience.

31. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
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.
Emotions and emphasis
Who's scene is it

32. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Call sheets
To be a mirror
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

33. What is the importance of close-ups?
Keys
Call sheets
Keys
Emotions and emphasis

34. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
B-Roll
Report to the 1st AD
Tell a story
edit suite

35. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
To have an idea of how they talk
To be a mirror
Director

36. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Who's scene is it
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Director
makes running a set more efficient

37. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
makes running a set more efficient
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
To have an idea of how they talk
Repetition is the death of creativity

38. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Call sheets
In visioning a result
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Emotions and emphasis

39. Three important direction to give an actor.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Report to the 1st AD
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

40. 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.
They Need to observe
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Conversion

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

42. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
They Need to observe
Director
Show commitment show ability to perform
Result direction

43. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
Conversion
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
To have an idea of how they talk
Director

44. What is the importance of close-ups?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Emotions and emphasis
Report to the 1st AD
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

45. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
They Need to observe
To have an idea of how they talk
Emotions and emphasis

46. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Camera movement
What they gain.
To eyes of the audience.
To be a mirror

47. What is a story bored
To have an idea of how they talk
B-Roll
Pictorial representation of the film
In visioning a result

48. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
To be a mirror
Sitting and standing is more powerful
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Tell a story

49. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Keys
Show commitment show ability to perform
Director
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

50. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Issue of power and sex
To be a mirror
To eyes of the audience.
Director