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Film Directing Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is a story bored
In visioning a result
edit suite
Pictorial representation of the film
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

2. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
To be a mirror
Conversion
They Need to observe

3. Why do you do a callback?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Show commitment show ability to perform
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Issue of power and sex

4. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Pictorial representation of the film
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Result direction

5. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Call sheets

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

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

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8. 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
To eyes of the audience.
Conversion
Camera movement

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

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10. What does gaffer do?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
To eyes of the audience.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Repetition is the death of creativity

11. What is a story bored
Camera movement
Pictorial representation of the film
Show commitment show ability to perform
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

12. 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
To have an idea of how they talk
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

13. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Tell a story
Issue of power and sex
In visioning a result
it's portable

14. What does gaffer do?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Issue of power and sex
it's portable
Director

15. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
In visioning a result
Sitting and standing is more powerful
What they gain.

16. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Call sheets
makes running a set more efficient
Director

17. Three important direction to give an actor.
Call sheets
Emotions and emphasis
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

18. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Eye contact
Repetition is the death of creativity
Emotions and emphasis
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

19. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
To eyes of the audience.
To be a mirror
makes running a set more efficient

20. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
What they gain.
Because that's result direction.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Director

21. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Camera movement
To eyes of the audience.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Repetition is the death of creativity

22. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Report to the 1st AD
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

23. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Camera movement
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
To eyes of the audience.
Show commitment show ability to perform

24. 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?
They Need to observe
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
They Need to observe
Yes cross out so they can focus more

25. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Issue of power and sex
Director
Result direction

26. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
To be a mirror
B-Roll
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

27. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Director
B-Roll

28. What is the importance of close-ups?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Emotions and emphasis

29. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Report to the 1st AD
Keys
Camera movement
They Need to observe

30. A documentary is created in the...
edit suite
In visioning a result
Keys
Call sheets

31. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
Conversion
Camera movement
makes running a set more efficient
They Need to observe

32. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Emotions and emphasis
Call sheets
Repetition is the death of creativity
Sitting and standing is more powerful

33. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
Eye contact
Repetition is the death of creativity
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Result direction

34. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
Who's scene is it
makes running a set more efficient
In visioning a result
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

35. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
To eyes of the audience.
What they gain.
Eye contact
Director

36. Three important direction to give an actor.
They Need to observe
In visioning a result
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Emotions and emphasis

37. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
Show commitment show ability to perform
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Result direction
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

38. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
In visioning a result
Result direction
it's portable
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

39. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Director
Keys
B-Roll

40. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Tell a story

41. What is a pitch in one world?
Conversion
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Camera movement
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

42. Why do you do a callback?
Show commitment show ability to perform
makes running a set more efficient
To eyes of the audience.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

43. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Issue of power and sex
In visioning a result
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
To be a mirror

44. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What they gain.
Camera movement
Issue of power and sex
Tell a story

45. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
B-Roll
Conversion
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

46. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Pictorial representation of the film
To be a mirror
Keys

47. What is result direction?
In visioning a result
Result direction
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

48. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Call sheets
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Because that's result direction.

49. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Repetition is the death of creativity
To be a mirror
In visioning a result

50. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
edit suite
Director
Call sheets
To eyes of the audience.