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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 point of a director on fiction and doc.
Report to the 1st AD
Eye contact
Tell a story
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

2. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Repetition is the death of creativity
To have an idea of how they talk
Yes cross out so they can focus more
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

3. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Eye contact
Repetition is the death of creativity
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Issue of power and sex

4. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
Director
Report to the 1st AD
To have an idea of how they talk
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

5. Why do you do a callback?
Pictorial representation of the film
Show commitment show ability to perform
Report to the 1st AD
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

6. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Emotions and emphasis
To be a mirror
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Repetition is the death of creativity

7. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
They Need to observe
B-Roll
To be a mirror
Who's scene is it

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

9. What is the importance of close-ups?
makes running a set more efficient
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Emotions and emphasis

10. What is result direction?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Result direction
makes running a set more efficient
In visioning a result

11. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Camera movement
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Call sheets
To eyes of the audience.

12. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
edit suite
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Keys
Report to the 1st AD

13. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
B-Roll
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Pictorial representation of the film
Who's scene is it

14. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
it's portable
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
To be a mirror

15. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
To eyes of the audience.
Who's scene is it
To eyes of the audience.
Repetition is the death of creativity

16. What is result direction?
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Issue of power and sex
Eye contact
In visioning a result

17. A documentary is created in the...
Result direction
What they gain.
edit suite
Eye contact

18. What is a story bored
They Need to observe
Pictorial representation of the film
makes running a set more efficient
Emotions and emphasis

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

20. A documentary is created in the...
edit suite
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Who's scene is it
Pictorial representation of the film

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?
Conversion
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Keys
Yes cross out so they can focus more

22. What does gaffer do?
What they gain.
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.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

23. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
B-Roll
Camera movement
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

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

25. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Keys
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
it's portable
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

26. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
Issue of power and sex
B-Roll
makes running a set more efficient
To be a mirror

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

28. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
They Need to observe
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
it's portable
Repetition is the death of creativity

29. 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.
Report to the 1st AD
To be a mirror
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

30. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Call sheets
Eye contact
Tell a story
Emotions and emphasis

31. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Call sheets
Keys
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Who's scene is it

32. Three important direction to give an actor.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
They Need to observe
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

33. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
Pictorial representation of the film
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Report to the 1st AD
Tell a story

34. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Keys
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

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

36. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
In visioning a result
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Pictorial representation of the film
Tell a story

37. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
edit suite
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Director
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

38. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
Call sheets
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.
Show commitment show ability to perform

39. 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.
Camera movement
Because that's result direction.
makes running a set more efficient

40. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
To be a mirror
To have an idea of how they talk
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Director

41. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
In visioning a result
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
makes running a set more efficient

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

43. 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
Who's scene is it
To eyes of the audience.
What they gain.

44. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Call sheets
Eye contact
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Camera movement

45. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
makes running a set more efficient
Issue of power and sex
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
B-Roll

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

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

48. Why is craft services important?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Director
Conversion
Pictorial representation of the film

49. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
In visioning a result
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Yes cross out so they can focus more
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

50. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What they gain.
it's portable
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Because that's result direction.