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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 directors ultimate duty to an actor?
makes running a set more efficient
To be a mirror
Issue of power and sex
Because that's result direction.

2. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Director
Camera movement
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

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

4. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Keys
In visioning a result
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Camera movement

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

6. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Issue of power and sex
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Who's scene is it
Keys

7. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Issue of power and sex
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Because that's result direction.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

8. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Pictorial representation of the film
Yes cross out so they can focus more
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
To have an idea of how they talk

9. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Repetition is the death of creativity
Keys
Camera movement

10. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Because that's result direction.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Who's scene is it

11. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Because that's result direction.
Director
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Repetition is the death of creativity

12. Three important direction to give an actor.
To have an idea of how they talk
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Sitting and standing is more powerful

13. What is a story bored
They Need to observe
Eye contact
Pictorial representation of the film
To eyes of the audience.

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

15. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
What they gain.
Director
Sitting and standing is more powerful

16. What is result direction?
edit suite
In visioning a result
Camera movement
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

17. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
To be a mirror
Keys
Eye contact
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

18. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Issue of power and sex
Conversion
Who's scene is it
Emotions and emphasis

19. What does gaffer do?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Keys
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

20. 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
Sitting and standing is more powerful
In visioning a result
To have an idea of how they talk

21. Why is craft services important?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Emotions and emphasis
it's portable
What they gain.

22. What is result direction?
Tell a story
Director
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
In visioning a result

23. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
To be a mirror
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Tell a story
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

24. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Camera movement
Keys
Sitting and standing is more powerful
In visioning a result

25. Why do you do a callback?
Pictorial representation of the film
To eyes of the audience.
Show commitment show ability to perform
What they gain.

26. What is the importance of close-ups?
Emotions and emphasis
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Camera movement
In visioning a result

27. What is the importance of close-ups?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Call sheets
Issue of power and sex
Emotions and emphasis

28. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Emotions and emphasis
Camera movement
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Call sheets

29. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Camera movement
Conversion
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

30. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
What they gain.
Camera movement
Sitting and standing is more powerful
To eyes of the audience.

31. What is a pitch in one world?
Conversion
Director
Pictorial representation of the film
makes running a set more efficient

32. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
it's portable
makes running a set more efficient
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
B-Roll

33. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Emotions and emphasis
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Camera movement
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

34. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Result direction
Because that's result direction.
Pictorial representation of the film
What they gain.

35. Three important direction to give an actor.
Because that's result direction.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Camera movement
Result direction

36. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What they gain.
Because that's result direction.
To eyes of the audience.
Pictorial representation of the film

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

38. Why is craft services important?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
In visioning a result
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Pictorial representation of the film

39. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Keys
Issue of power and sex
Camera movement
Director

40. 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.
Conversion
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

41. 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.
Who's scene is it
Eye contact
Director

42. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Eye contact
Sitting and standing is more powerful
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

43. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Repetition is the death of creativity
Result direction
What they gain.
Director

44. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
makes running a set more efficient
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Call sheets
Sitting and standing is more powerful

45. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
In visioning a result
Tell a story
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

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

47. A documentary is created in the...
Director
edit suite
Repetition is the death of creativity
it's portable

48. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Call sheets
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
To eyes of the audience.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

49. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
To be a mirror
To have an idea of how they talk
it's portable
Director

50. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
To be a mirror
Conversion
Yes cross out so they can focus more
B-Roll