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Film Directing Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the importance of close-ups?
edit suite
Tell a story
To eyes of the audience.
Emotions and emphasis

2. What is a story bored
Eye contact
Pictorial representation of the film
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.

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

4. What does gaffer do?
Result direction
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Director
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

5. A documentary is created in the...
edit suite
Camera movement
Who's scene is it
Because that's result direction.

6. Why do you do a callback?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Conversion
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Issue of power and sex

7. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Camera movement
Because that's result direction.
Report to the 1st AD
Result direction

8. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Keys
Because that's result direction.
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.

9. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Call sheets
Issue of power and sex
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
What they gain.

10. What is result direction?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Sitting and standing is more powerful
In visioning a result
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

11. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
it's portable
edit suite
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

12. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Because that's result direction.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
To be a mirror

13. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Because that's result direction.
Issue of power and sex
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

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

15. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
Report to the 1st AD
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.
Pictorial representation of the film

16. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Director
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Camera movement
makes running a set more efficient

17. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What they gain.
Keys
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

18. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
makes running a set more efficient
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
They Need to observe
Director

19. 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
Director
Pictorial representation of the film

20. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
Because that's result direction.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Camera movement

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

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

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

24. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Call sheets
They Need to observe

25. What is result direction?
In visioning a result
Because that's result direction.
What they gain.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

26. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Tell a story
To eyes of the audience.
Issue of power and sex
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

27. What is a story bored
Because that's result direction.
Call sheets
Pictorial representation of the film
Director

28. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
To have an idea of how they talk
it's portable
it's portable
Show commitment show ability to perform

29. What is a pitch in one world?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Who's scene is it
Show commitment show ability to perform
Conversion

30. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Camera movement
B-Roll

31. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Who's scene is it
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Eye contact

32. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Issue of power and sex
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Repetition is the death of creativity

33. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Who's scene is it
edit suite
They Need to observe
What they gain.

34. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
To be a mirror
Sitting and standing is more powerful
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
What they gain.

35. What is a pitch in one world?
Because that's result direction.
Repetition is the death of creativity
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Conversion

36. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Call sheets
Issue of power and sex
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Director

37. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
Camera movement
Keys
In visioning a result
makes running a set more efficient

38. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
What they gain.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
What they gain.

39. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Director
They Need to observe
Repetition is the death of creativity
Eye contact

40. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
In visioning a result
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Who's scene is it

41. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
it's portable
Director
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

42. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
To eyes of the audience.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Who's scene is it
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

43. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Director
Result direction
Who's scene is it
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

44. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Repetition is the death of creativity
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
it's portable

45. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Camera movement
They Need to observe
Keys
What they gain.

46. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
To eyes of the audience.
To have an idea of how they talk

47. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
edit suite
To be a mirror
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Pictorial representation of the film

48. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
it's portable
To eyes of the audience.
Result direction
Sitting and standing is more powerful

49. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Emotions and emphasis
Keys
makes running a set more efficient

50. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
B-Roll
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Result direction
edit suite