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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

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

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2. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
Who's scene is it
edit suite
Report to the 1st AD
B-Roll


3. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Director
edit suite
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Call sheets


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

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5. A documentary is created in the...
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
edit suite
Tell a story
moves and sets the direction of DOP.


6. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Director
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.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.


7. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Result direction
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Call sheets
Because that's result direction.


8. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
To be a mirror
Tell a story
it's portable
Camera movement


9. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What they gain.
Pictorial representation of the film
To have an idea of how they talk
Why not - b roll helps tell the story


10. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Director
Conversion
Camera movement
it's portable


11. Why is craft services important?
What they gain.
Conversion
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.


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?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Repetition is the death of creativity


13. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
To eyes of the audience.
Report to the 1st AD
Repetition is the death of creativity


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

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15. 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.
Director
What they gain.


16. Why do you do a callback?
makes running a set more efficient
Pictorial representation of the film
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Show commitment show ability to perform


17. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Emotions and emphasis
Issue of power and sex
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Keys


18. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
edit suite
Report to the 1st AD
Tell a story
makes running a set more efficient


19. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
Report to the 1st AD
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
You want to be there not looking at a screen.


20. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Camera movement
it's portable
Issue of power and sex
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.


21. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
In visioning a result
They Need to observe
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.


22. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
Repetition is the death of creativity
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
makes running a set more efficient
Tell a story


23. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
makes running a set more efficient
Issue of power and sex
Sitting and standing is more powerful


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

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25. What does gaffer do?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Eye contact
moves and sets the direction of DOP.


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

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27. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Call sheets
B-Roll
Director
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.


28. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
edit suite
Repetition is the death of creativity
Call sheets
Camera movement


29. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
In visioning a result
Sitting and standing is more powerful
To have an idea of how they talk
They Need to observe


30. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Repetition is the death of creativity
Conversion
To eyes of the audience.
Because that's result direction.


31. 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 do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Camera movement
Emotions and emphasis


32. What does gaffer do?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Result direction
B-Roll


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

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34. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
To have an idea of how they talk
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Eye contact
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.


35. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
Call sheets
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Director
Sitting and standing is more powerful


36. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
To be a mirror
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Director
Call sheets


37. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Emotions and emphasis
Keys
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
To eyes of the audience.


38. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
What they gain.
Emotions and emphasis
Issue of power and sex
edit suite


39. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
To have an idea of how they talk
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Director


40. What is result direction?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
What they gain.
In visioning a result
Pictorial representation of the film


41. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Issue of power and sex
To be a mirror
Tell a story
Because that's result direction.


42. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Eye contact
To eyes of the audience.
Keys
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage


43. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Report to the 1st AD
To have an idea of how they talk
Call sheets
Pictorial representation of the film


44. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
In visioning a result
To eyes of the audience.
Yes cross out so they can focus more


45. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Call sheets
Sitting and standing is more powerful
What they gain.
To have an idea of how they talk


46. 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?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Director
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Result direction


47. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
To have an idea of how they talk
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Repetition is the death of creativity
moves and sets the direction of DOP.


48. Three important direction to give an actor.
Who's scene is it
Issue of power and sex
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Because that's result direction.


49. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Director
Camera movement


50. What is result direction?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Conversion
In visioning a result
To eyes of the audience.