Film Directing Exam

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• Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Why is craft services important?
makes running a set more efficient
Show commitment show ability to perform
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
To be a mirror


2. Three important direction to give an actor.
They Need to observe
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Director
Emotions and emphasis


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

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4. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
To eyes of the audience.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Issue of power and sex
Result direction


5. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Camera movement


6. What is the importance of close-ups?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Emotions and emphasis
Yes cross out so they can focus more
In visioning a result


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

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8. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
Conversion
To have an idea of how they talk
Report to the 1st AD
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.


9. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Show commitment show ability to perform
B-Roll
Director


10. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Emotions and emphasis
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Keys
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.


11. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Pictorial representation of the film
Tell a story
Director
B-Roll


12. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Issue of power and sex
Director
To eyes of the audience.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.


13. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Keys
Pictorial representation of the film
Because that's result direction.
Result direction


14. What is a pitch in one world?
Result direction
Because that's result direction.
To eyes of the audience.
Conversion


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

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16. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
makes running a set more efficient
To have an idea of how they talk
Director


17. 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?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Director
Tell a story


18. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
it's portable
Director
To have an idea of how they talk
edit suite


19. What is a story bored
In visioning a result
Director
Show commitment show ability to perform
Pictorial representation of the film


20. Three important direction to give an actor.
Tell a story
Result direction
Director
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.


21. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
They Need to observe
Camera movement
Because that's result direction.


22. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
In visioning a result
Eye contact
Repetition is the death of creativity
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.


23. Why do you do a callback?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Repetition is the death of creativity
Pictorial representation of the film


24. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
Result direction
makes running a set more efficient
Report to the 1st AD
Pictorial representation of the film


25. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Keys
makes running a set more efficient
Call sheets
Conversion


26. What does gaffer do?
Repetition is the death of creativity
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Result direction
They Need to observe


27. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Tell a story
To be a mirror
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Yes cross out so they can focus more


28. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Pictorial representation of the film
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.


29. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Tell a story


30. What is result direction?
In visioning a result
it's portable
Keys
Who's scene is it


31. 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
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Sitting and standing is more powerful
You want to be there not looking at a screen.


32. What is a pitch in one world?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
They Need to observe
Conversion
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage


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

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34. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Director
Eye contact
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Show commitment show ability to perform


35. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
makes running a set more efficient
Camera movement
To eyes of the audience.
B-Roll


36. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
They Need to observe


37. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
They Need to observe
To be a mirror
To eyes of the audience.


38. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
Keys
Repetition is the death of creativity
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Result direction


39. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Tell a story
Director
Eye contact
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.


40. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
Tell a story
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Who's scene is it
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.


41. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
B-Roll
Emotions and emphasis


42. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Call sheets
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.


43. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
They Need to observe
edit suite
Show commitment show ability to perform


44. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Camera movement
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
To be a mirror
Result direction


45. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Report to the 1st AD
Issue of power and sex
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Keys


46. 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
What they gain.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
makes running a set more efficient


47. What is the importance of close-ups?
Emotions and emphasis
Pictorial representation of the film
Result direction
Sitting and standing is more powerful


48. A documentary is created in the...
edit suite
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
makes running a set more efficient
To have an idea of how they talk


49. Why do you do a callback?
Result direction
Show commitment show ability to perform
it's portable
What they gain.


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

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