Film Directing Exam

Instructions:

• Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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• Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

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

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2. 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 have an idea of how they talk
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Result direction


3. Why do you do a callback?
Camera movement
Show commitment show ability to perform
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Director


4. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
Pictorial representation of the film
makes running a set more efficient
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.


5. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
To have an idea of how they talk
Camera movement
You want to be there not looking at a screen.


6. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Tell a story
Keys
Why not - b roll helps tell the story


7. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Because that's result direction.
Because that's result direction.
makes running a set more efficient
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.


8. Why is craft services important?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.


9. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
edit suite
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Why not - b roll helps tell the story


10. What is the importance of close-ups?
Director
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Emotions and emphasis
Camera movement


11. A documentary is created in the...
Repetition is the death of creativity
B-Roll
makes running a set more efficient
edit suite


12. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
In visioning a result
To eyes of the audience.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.


13. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
B-Roll
Director
Because that's result direction.
Director


14. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Call sheets
B-Roll
Camera movement
They Need to observe


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

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16. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
To have an idea of how they talk
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Eye contact
Report to the 1st AD


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

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18. 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
Keys
They Need to observe
Emotions and emphasis


19. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Camera movement
To be a mirror
To have an idea of how they talk
To have an idea of how they talk


20. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
makes running a set more efficient
Call sheets
Conversion
Sitting and standing is more powerful


21. 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.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
In visioning a result
They Need to observe


22. Why do you do a callback?
Director
Show commitment show ability to perform
Because that's result direction.
What they gain.


23. Three important direction to give an actor.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Camera movement
Keys
Conversion


24. What is a pitch in one world?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Report to the 1st AD
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Conversion


25. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
To be a mirror
Tell a story
Emotions and emphasis
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.


26. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Camera movement
They Need to observe
To be a mirror
Repetition is the death of creativity


27. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Report to the 1st AD
Tell a story
They Need to observe
moves and sets the direction of DOP.


28. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
Tell a story
Result direction
Director
Report to the 1st AD


29. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
Eye contact
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
What they gain.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage


30. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
What they gain.
To be a mirror
Result direction
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage


31. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
it's portable
Call sheets
edit suite
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.


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

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33. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
makes running a set more efficient
Director


34. What does gaffer do?
makes running a set more efficient
Camera movement
They Need to observe
moves and sets the direction of DOP.


35. What does gaffer do?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Issue of power and sex
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
In visioning a result


36. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
To eyes of the audience.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
In visioning a result
Result direction


37. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
To be a mirror
Because that's result direction.


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


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

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40. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
B-Roll
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Issue of power and sex
Eye contact


41. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Tell a story
In visioning a result
makes running a set more efficient


42. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
To eyes of the audience.
To be a mirror
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Show commitment show ability to perform


43. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
makes running a set more efficient
Issue of power and sex
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
To be a mirror


44. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
They Need to observe
Director
Result direction
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.


45. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
it's portable
To have an idea of how they talk


46. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Report to the 1st AD
Keys
What they gain.


47. Three important direction to give an actor.
Emotions and emphasis
To eyes of the audience.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.


48. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Report to the 1st AD
edit suite
Keys
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.


49. What is the importance of close-ups?
Call sheets
Keys
Issue of power and sex
Emotions and emphasis


50. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Call sheets
In visioning a result
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
it's portable