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Film Directing Exam

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1. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Eye contact
B-Roll
Pictorial representation of the film
Camera movement

2. 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.
To eyes of the audience.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Report to the 1st AD

3. Three important direction to give an actor.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
To eyes of the audience.
Eye contact
Pictorial representation of the film

4. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Director
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Because that's result direction.
Keys

5. Why do you do a callback?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Repetition is the death of creativity
Show commitment show ability to perform
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

6. 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.
To have an idea of how they talk
To eyes of the audience.
Because that's result direction.

7. A documentary is created in the...
Camera movement
edit suite
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
In visioning a result

8. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
They Need to observe
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
What they gain.
Eye contact

9. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Report to the 1st AD
Result direction
Repetition is the death of creativity

10. What is result direction?
Director
In visioning a result
Repetition is the death of creativity
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

11. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Emotions and emphasis
Pictorial representation of the film
Director
To have an idea of how they talk

12. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Tell a story
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Repetition is the death of creativity
Result direction

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

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14. What is result direction?
In visioning a result
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
makes running a set more efficient
To eyes of the audience.

15. What is a pitch in one world?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Conversion

16. What does gaffer do?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Tell a story
Issue of power and sex
Because that's result direction.

17. Why do you do a callback?
it's portable
Show commitment show ability to perform
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
To be a mirror

18. 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
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

19. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Director
Conversion

20. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
What they gain.
Camera movement

21. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Eye contact
makes running a set more efficient
They Need to observe

22. What does gaffer do?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
edit suite
Sitting and standing is more powerful

23. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
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.
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.

24. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Director
Show commitment show ability to perform
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

25. 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
In visioning a result
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
it's portable

26. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
To have an idea of how they talk
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
B-Roll
Call sheets

27. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Director
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Repetition is the death of creativity
Result direction

28. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
To be a mirror
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
To have an idea of how they talk
Sitting and standing is more powerful

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

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30. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
To be a mirror
To eyes of the audience.
Director

31. Three important direction to give an actor.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
To eyes of the audience.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

32. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Tell a story
Pictorial representation of the film
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

33. 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.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Yes cross out so they can focus more

34. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
They Need to observe
Result direction
In visioning a result
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

35. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
What they gain.
Call sheets

36. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Director
it's portable

37. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Because that's result direction.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Eye contact
Yes cross out so they can focus more

38. Why is craft services important?
What they gain.
it's portable
makes running a set more efficient
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

39. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Who's scene is it
Report to the 1st AD
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
To eyes of the audience.

40. A documentary is created in the...
edit suite
B-Roll
it's portable
Eye contact

41. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Call sheets
it's portable
Director
To have an idea of how they talk

42. What is the importance of close-ups?
To eyes of the audience.
Eye contact
edit suite
Emotions and emphasis

43. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
Eye contact
To have an idea of how they talk
Repetition is the death of creativity
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

44. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
They Need to observe
Result direction
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

45. 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?
B-Roll
Eye contact
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Camera movement

46. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Call sheets
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
They Need to observe
edit suite

47. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
To be a mirror
Pictorial representation of the film
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Eye contact

48. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Keys
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

49. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Because that's result direction.
edit suite
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Camera movement

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

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