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Film Directing Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Director
To have an idea of how they talk
Camera movement
Result direction

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

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3. A documentary is created in the...
Who's scene is it
Emotions and emphasis
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
edit suite

4. What is result direction?
In visioning a result
Keys
Director
They Need to observe

5. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Camera movement
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
To have an idea of how they talk

6. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Because that's result direction.
Show commitment show ability to perform
To eyes of the audience.

7. Why is craft services important?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Show commitment show ability to perform
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

8. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What they gain.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Emotions and emphasis
Repetition is the death of creativity

9. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
it's portable
Emotions and emphasis
edit suite

10. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
To be a mirror
Director

11. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Call sheets
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

12. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
makes running a set more efficient
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
it's portable

13. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Repetition is the death of creativity
makes running a set more efficient

14. 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?
makes running a set more efficient
What they gain.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

15. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
To have an idea of how they talk
Sitting and standing is more powerful
makes running a set more efficient

16. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
To have an idea of how they talk
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
edit suite
Result direction

17. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
They Need to observe
makes running a set more efficient
Issue of power and sex

18. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Conversion
Pictorial representation of the film
Call sheets
Camera movement

19. Why do you do a callback?
Conversion
Show commitment show ability to perform
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
They Need to observe

20. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
To be a mirror
Show commitment show ability to perform
To have an idea of how they talk

21. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Issue of power and sex
Director
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Eye contact

22. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
it's portable
Tell a story
Eye contact

23. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Keys
Director
To have an idea of how they talk
Issue of power and sex

24. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
B-Roll
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
it's portable

25. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
edit suite
Keys
Report to the 1st AD
Tell a story

26. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
To have an idea of how they talk
Show commitment show ability to perform
Who's scene is it
Result direction

27. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
it's portable
Keys
Director
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

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

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29. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
They Need to observe
Emotions and emphasis

30. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Camera movement
Keys

31. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
They Need to observe
Director
Camera movement
Emotions and emphasis

32. 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.
edit suite
To eyes of the audience.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

33. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
They Need to observe
Camera movement
Issue of power and sex

34. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Camera movement
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Call sheets
edit suite

35. Why do you do a callback?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Emotions and emphasis
Conversion
Show commitment show ability to perform

36. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What they gain.
Conversion
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

37. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
it's portable
Eye contact
Director

38. Three important direction to give an actor.
They Need to observe
Director
Because that's result direction.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

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

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40. What is the importance of close-ups?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Camera movement
What they gain.
Emotions and emphasis

41. Three important direction to give an actor.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
B-Roll
Call sheets
Who's scene is it

42. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Director
To be a mirror
Because that's result direction.
Camera movement

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

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44. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Keys
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
In visioning a result

45. What is the importance of close-ups?
Emotions and emphasis
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Repetition is the death of creativity
Sitting and standing is more powerful

46. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Pictorial representation of the film
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
makes running a set more efficient
To eyes of the audience.

47. What is a pitch in one world?
it's portable
Conversion
Eye contact
Tell a story

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
makes running a set more efficient
What they gain.

49. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Director
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Result direction

50. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Emotions and emphasis
Repetition is the death of creativity
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
edit suite