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

2. Three important direction to give an actor.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
it's portable
Call sheets
Director

3. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
edit suite

4. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Issue of power and sex
Call sheets
Because that's result direction.

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

6. What does gaffer do?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Because that's result direction.
it's portable
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

7. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Tell a story
To have an idea of how they talk
They Need to observe
B-Roll

8. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
Call sheets
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Show commitment show ability to perform
Keys

9. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Camera movement
To be a mirror
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Keys

10. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Show commitment show ability to perform
In visioning a result
What they gain.
To have an idea of how they talk

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

12. A documentary is created in the...
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Tell a story
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
edit suite

13. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
Pictorial representation of the film
B-Roll
What they gain.
Show commitment show ability to perform

14. Why is craft services important?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

15. What is a pitch in one world?
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Pictorial representation of the film
Conversion
Who's scene is it

16. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Result direction
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Issue of power and sex
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

17. Why do you do a callback?
Show commitment show ability to perform
To eyes of the audience.
Director
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

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

19. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Conversion
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Camera movement
They Need to observe

20. What does gaffer do?
Conversion
Who's scene is it
Because that's result direction.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

21. Why do you do a callback?
What they gain.
Emotions and emphasis
Show commitment show ability to perform
B-Roll

22. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
B-Roll
Sitting and standing is more powerful
They Need to observe
What they gain.

23. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Director
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
To eyes of the audience.
In visioning a result

24. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Camera movement
Keys
Who's scene is it
edit suite

25. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Conversion
Because that's result direction.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Keys

26. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Camera movement
Conversion
To eyes of the audience.

27. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Who's scene is it
To eyes of the audience.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

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

29. 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?
Emotions and emphasis
Yes cross out so they can focus more
To have an idea of how they talk
Director

30. What is result direction?
Camera movement
In visioning a result
Issue of power and sex
They Need to observe

31. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What they gain.
In visioning a result
Eye contact
To eyes of the audience.

32. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Pictorial representation of the film
Result direction
Director

33. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
To be a mirror
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
They Need to observe

34. A documentary is created in the...
Eye contact
Yes cross out so they can focus more
edit suite
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

35. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
What they gain.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Tell a story
Camera movement

36. What is result direction?
In visioning a result
Show commitment show ability to perform
B-Roll
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

37. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Repetition is the death of creativity
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
To be a mirror

38. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
Keys
Call sheets
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Result direction

39. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
To have an idea of how they talk
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Who's scene is it
Keys

40. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Director
edit suite
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Camera movement

41. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
To have an idea of how they talk
To be a mirror
Director
Yes cross out so they can focus more

42. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Call sheets
Sitting and standing is more powerful
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Camera movement

43. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
Director
What they gain.
What they gain.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

44. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Eye contact
In visioning a result
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

45. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
makes running a set more efficient
Issue of power and sex
Show commitment show ability to perform
Because that's result direction.

46. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

47. What is a story bored
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
They Need to observe
Pictorial representation of the film
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

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

49. What is a pitch in one world?
Repetition is the death of creativity
Director
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Conversion

50. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
To eyes of the audience.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
To have an idea of how they talk