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Film Directing Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Why is craft services important?
Director
To eyes of the audience.
Result direction
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

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

3. What is a pitch in one world?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Conversion
it's portable
They Need to observe

4. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Tell a story
Eye contact
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

5. What does gaffer do?
Eye contact
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
edit suite
Call sheets

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

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

8. 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
Result direction
Camera movement

9. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
makes running a set more efficient
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

10. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
To have an idea of how they talk
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Camera movement

11. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
Because that's result direction.
Report to the 1st AD
Tell a story
Result direction

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

13. Why is craft services important?
Director
What they gain.
Issue of power and sex
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

14. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
To eyes of the audience.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
B-Roll

15. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Repetition is the death of creativity
B-Roll
Eye contact
In visioning a result

16. What is result direction?
it's portable
In visioning a result
Camera movement
To eyes of the audience.

17. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
Who's scene is it
They Need to observe
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

18. Why do you do a callback?
What they gain.
Result direction
Who's scene is it
Show commitment show ability to perform

19. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
To be a mirror
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

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

21. 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
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Issue of power and sex
Keys

22. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Director
Sitting and standing is more powerful

23. What is a story bored
makes running a set more efficient
Pictorial representation of the film
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Eye contact

24. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
To have an idea of how they talk
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
To eyes of the audience.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

25. Three important direction to give an actor.
B-Roll
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Director

26. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
They Need to observe
Result direction
Emotions and emphasis
Pictorial representation of the film

27. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Show commitment show ability to perform
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Emotions and emphasis

28. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
To eyes of the audience.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Director
makes running a set more efficient

29. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
They Need to observe

30. What is result direction?
To have an idea of how they talk
Conversion
In visioning a result
What they gain.

31. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Report to the 1st AD
To have an idea of how they talk
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Call sheets

32. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What they gain.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
it's portable
Because that's result direction.

33. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Pictorial representation of the film
What they gain.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
edit suite

34. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
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.
Repetition is the death of creativity
In visioning a result

35. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Keys
They Need to observe
Eye contact
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

36. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
edit suite
Who's scene is it
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Tell a story

37. What is the importance of close-ups?
Emotions and emphasis
Director
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
What they gain.

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

39. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
Director
B-Roll
Because that's result direction.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

40. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
To eyes of the audience.
it's portable
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Report to the 1st AD

41. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Camera movement
Director
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Sitting and standing is more powerful

42. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Who's scene is it
Repetition is the death of creativity
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Sitting and standing is more powerful

43. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
To eyes of the audience.

44. 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.
Director
What they gain.
Report to the 1st AD

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

46. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Eye contact

47. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
In visioning a result
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
edit suite

48. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Director
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Because that's result direction.
Tell a story

49. Why do you do a callback?
edit suite
Show commitment show ability to perform
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

50. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
What they gain.
it's portable
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.