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Film Directing Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Eye contact
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Call sheets

2. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Pictorial representation of the film
They Need to observe
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

3. What is result direction?
To have an idea of how they talk
Eye contact
Call sheets
In visioning a result

4. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
makes running a set more efficient
Emotions and emphasis
In visioning a result
Call sheets

5. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Camera movement
Director
Pictorial representation of the film
Conversion

6. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Pictorial representation of the film

7. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Emotions and emphasis
Sitting and standing is more powerful
What they gain.

8. 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?
Tell a story
Director
Director
Yes cross out so they can focus more

9. What is a story bored
Pictorial representation of the film
Who's scene is it
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Result direction

10. What is result direction?
it's portable
Sitting and standing is more powerful
In visioning a result
B-Roll

11. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
makes running a set more efficient
Keys
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

12. What does gaffer do?
Tell a story
To be a mirror
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Show commitment show ability to perform

13. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
Emotions and emphasis
B-Roll
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
it's portable

14. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
What they gain.
To have an idea of how they talk
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

15. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Keys
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Tell a story
Because that's result direction.

16. 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
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Because that's result direction.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

17. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Emotions and emphasis
Report to the 1st AD
To be a mirror

18. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
To eyes of the audience.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Camera movement
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

19. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
They Need to observe
it's portable
Repetition is the death of creativity
Repetition is the death of creativity

20. 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.
Director
Director
Eye contact

21. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Tell a story
Pictorial representation of the film
Repetition is the death of creativity
Director

22. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Keys
What they gain.
To be a mirror
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

23. Why is craft services important?
Emotions and emphasis
Director
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

24. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
In visioning a result
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

25. 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?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
In visioning a result
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Yes cross out so they can focus more

26. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

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

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28. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Call sheets
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Result direction

29. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Conversion
What they gain.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

30. Three important direction to give an actor.
To be a mirror
Issue of power and sex
Because that's result direction.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

31. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
They Need to observe
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Who's scene is it
Emotions and emphasis

32. 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.
What they gain.
To have an idea of how they talk

33. Why do you do a callback?
Issue of power and sex
Show commitment show ability to perform
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Yes cross out so they can focus more

34. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
it's portable
B-Roll
Emotions and emphasis
To have an idea of how they talk

35. A documentary is created in the...
In visioning a result
Director
edit suite
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

36. What is the importance of close-ups?
Result direction
Director
Emotions and emphasis
Tell a story

37. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Pictorial representation of the film
Keys
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
To eyes of the audience.

38. A documentary is created in the...
Report to the 1st AD
Emotions and emphasis
edit suite
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

39. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Eye contact
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
To eyes of the audience.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

40. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Show commitment show ability to perform
edit suite

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

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

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43. Three important direction to give an actor.
Pictorial representation of the film
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
To have an idea of how they talk
Issue of power and sex

44. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Call sheets
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

45. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Issue of power and sex
Eye contact
Result direction
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

46. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
Because that's result direction.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Tell a story
Director

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

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48. What is the importance of close-ups?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Show commitment show ability to perform
Emotions and emphasis

49. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Conversion
Emotions and emphasis
Show commitment show ability to perform
Issue of power and sex

50. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
B-Roll
Repetition is the death of creativity
makes running a set more efficient
Report to the 1st AD