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Film Directing Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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?
Who's scene is it
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Keys
edit suite

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

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3. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
To have an idea of how they talk
Yes cross out so they can focus more
edit suite

4. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
They Need to observe
Emotions and emphasis
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Camera movement

5. Three important direction to give an actor.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
In visioning a result
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
edit suite

6. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Issue of power and sex
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Who's scene is it
Conversion

7. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
In visioning a result
Director
Eye contact
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

8. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Because that's result direction.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Yes cross out so they can focus more

9. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
it's portable
What they gain.
Pictorial representation of the film
makes running a set more efficient

10. 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
Because that's result direction.
Issue of power and sex
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

11. What is a pitch in one world?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Conversion
Issue of power and sex
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

12. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
B-Roll
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Because that's result direction.
it's portable

13. What is a pitch in one world?
edit suite
Conversion
Repetition is the death of creativity
Because that's result direction.

14. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Director
Camera movement
Pictorial representation of the film
Show commitment show ability to perform

15. What does gaffer do?
Camera movement
edit suite
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
B-Roll

16. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
Show commitment show ability to perform
edit suite
makes running a set more efficient
They Need to observe

17. 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
Conversion
Director
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

18. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Call sheets
Repetition is the death of creativity
To have an idea of how they talk
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

19. Why is craft services important?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Result direction
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

20. 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
edit suite
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

21. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
B-Roll
Eye contact
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Because that's result direction.

22. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Who's scene is it
Report to the 1st AD
Pictorial representation of the film

23. Why do you do a callback?
Call sheets
B-Roll
Show commitment show ability to perform
Because that's result direction.

24. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Director
Report to the 1st AD
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Tell a story

25. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
Result direction
makes running a set more efficient
Pictorial representation of the film
Show commitment show ability to perform

26. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Result direction
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Because that's result direction.
Who's scene is it

27. What is the importance of close-ups?
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
What they gain.
Emotions and emphasis

28. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Result direction
To eyes of the audience.
Emotions and emphasis
Keys

29. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
In visioning a result
Call sheets
Emotions and emphasis

30. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Who's scene is it
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
What they gain.
They Need to observe

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

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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.
Pictorial representation of the film
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Sitting and standing is more powerful

33. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Report to the 1st AD
To have an idea of how they talk
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Issue of power and sex

34. What does gaffer do?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
B-Roll
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

35. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
B-Roll
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Result direction
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

36. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
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.
To be a mirror

37. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
To have an idea of how they talk
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Who's scene is it

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

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39. What is a story bored
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Pictorial representation of the film
Report to the 1st AD
They Need to observe

40. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Tell a story
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
it's portable

41. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Emotions and emphasis
In visioning a result
To be a mirror
What they gain.

42. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Who's scene is it
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
What they gain.

43. Why is craft services important?
it's portable
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Keys
Tell a story

44. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Conversion
Pictorial representation of the film
Director

45. Three important direction to give an actor.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Director

46. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
To have an idea of how they talk
Report to the 1st AD
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
To eyes of the audience.

47. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
In visioning a result
To eyes of the audience.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
B-Roll

48. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Issue of power and sex
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Camera movement
In visioning a result

49. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Because that's result direction.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

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

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