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Film Directing Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
They Need to observe
Yes cross out so they can focus more

2. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
B-Roll
Tell a story

3. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Call sheets
Who's scene is it
To eyes of the audience.
Director

4. 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.
Report to the 1st AD
Keys
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

5. A documentary is created in the...
Issue of power and sex
edit suite
Keys
Show commitment show ability to perform

6. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
They Need to observe
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
What they gain.
makes running a set more efficient

7. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
To be a mirror
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Tell a story
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

8. What does gaffer do?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Tell a story
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

9. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
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.
Result direction
Tell a story

10. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
Call sheets
What they gain.
Director
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

11. Why is craft services important?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Director
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

12. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Camera movement
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

13. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Because that's result direction.
Result direction
Call sheets
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

14. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Result direction
They Need to observe
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

15. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
In visioning a result
What they gain.
Show commitment show ability to perform
it's portable

16. A documentary is created in the...
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
edit suite
Director
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

17. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
it's portable
To be a mirror
Show commitment show ability to perform
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

18. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
What they gain.
Emotions and emphasis
makes running a set more efficient
Show commitment show ability to perform

19. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Tell a story
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

20. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Show commitment show ability to perform
To eyes of the audience.
What they gain.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

21. What is a story bored
Pictorial representation of the film
Director
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Director

22. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
B-Roll
Repetition is the death of creativity
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Result direction

23. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
They Need to observe
it's portable
Repetition is the death of creativity
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

24. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Director
Result direction
Call sheets
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

25. Three important direction to give an actor.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Pictorial representation of the film
Pictorial representation of the film
Sitting and standing is more powerful

26. What is the importance of close-ups?
it's portable
They Need to observe
Emotions and emphasis
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

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

28. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
Conversion
edit suite
B-Roll
Emotions and emphasis

29. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
To eyes of the audience.
makes running a set more efficient
Director
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

30. What is a pitch in one world?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Conversion
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Repetition is the death of creativity

31. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
edit suite
Repetition is the death of creativity
it's portable
Conversion

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

33. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
Repetition is the death of creativity
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Report to the 1st AD

34. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
B-Roll
What they gain.
Director
Who's scene is it

35. What is a pitch in one world?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Conversion
Keys
To eyes of the audience.

36. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Director
To have an idea of how they talk
They Need to observe
makes running a set more efficient

37. What is result direction?
Result direction
Result direction
makes running a set more efficient
In visioning a result

38. What is the importance of close-ups?
Because that's result direction.
Camera movement
Emotions and emphasis
Pictorial representation of the film

39. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
In visioning a result
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
To have an idea of how they talk

40. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Pictorial representation of the film
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Keys
Issue of power and sex

41. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
To eyes of the audience.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Result direction
In visioning a result

42. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Result direction
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Report to the 1st AD
edit suite

43. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
To have an idea of how they talk
Tell a story
Tell a story
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

44. 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
Result direction
Emotions and emphasis
Sitting and standing is more powerful

45. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Tell a story
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Yes cross out so they can focus more

46. 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?
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.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
In visioning a result

47. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Camera movement
Call sheets
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

48. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Pictorial representation of the film
Director
makes running a set more efficient
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

49. Why do you do a callback?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Pictorial representation of the film
B-Roll
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

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