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Film Directing Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Emotions and emphasis
Eye contact
They Need to observe
Show commitment show ability to perform

2. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Yes cross out so they can focus more
To eyes of the audience.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

3. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Director
Repetition is the death of creativity
Call sheets
They Need to observe

4. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Director
makes running a set more efficient
To have an idea of how they talk

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

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6. 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?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Yes cross out so they can focus more
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Issue of power and sex

7. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
They Need to observe
Director
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

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
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Call sheets
Tell a story

9. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Emotions and emphasis
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Conversion

10. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
it's portable
Keys
To be a mirror
Eye contact

11. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Call sheets
Tell a story
Result direction
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

12. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Director
What they gain.
Because that's result direction.

13. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
Report to the 1st AD
Who's scene is it
Repetition is the death of creativity
B-Roll

14. What is the importance of close-ups?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
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.
Emotions and emphasis

15. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Call sheets
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Issue of power and sex
What they gain.

16. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

17. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Eye contact
Repetition is the death of creativity
Emotions and emphasis

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

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19. What does gaffer do?
To have an idea of how they talk
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Emotions and emphasis
Issue of power and sex

20. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Keys
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Camera movement
Director

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

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22. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
In visioning a result
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Yes cross out so they can focus more

23. What is result direction?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
They Need to observe
In visioning a result
Who's scene is it

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

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

26. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
makes running a set more efficient
Call sheets
Sitting and standing is more powerful
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

27. Three important direction to give an actor.
In visioning a result
Yes cross out so they can focus more
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Camera movement

28. 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
B-Roll
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Director

29. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Director
Camera movement
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

30. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
In visioning a result
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
To have an idea of how they talk

31. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Tell a story
Conversion
Report to the 1st AD

32. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
it's portable
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Keys
To eyes of the audience.

33. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
Director
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
B-Roll
To have an idea of how they talk

34. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
B-Roll
Pictorial representation of the film
Call sheets
Director

35. 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
it's portable
Yes cross out so they can focus more
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

36. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Camera movement
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
To be a mirror
What they gain.

37. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Eye contact
Eye contact
Tell a story

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

39. What is result direction?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
In visioning a result
Pictorial representation of the film
Result direction

40. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Camera movement
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Pictorial representation of the film

41. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Eye contact
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Director
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

42. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
To be a mirror
makes running a set more efficient
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Show commitment show ability to perform

43. A documentary is created in the...
To have an idea of how they talk
Pictorial representation of the film
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
edit suite

44. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
To have an idea of how they talk
Pictorial representation of the film
Because that's result direction.
Because that's result direction.

45. 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
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Keys

46. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Call sheets
They Need to observe
edit suite
Yes cross out so they can focus more

47. A documentary is created in the...
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Tell a story
Keys
edit suite

48. Three important direction to give an actor.
Report to the 1st AD
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Yes cross out so they can focus more

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

50. Why is craft services important?
Call sheets
In visioning a result
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
edit suite