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Film Directing Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Director
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Emotions and emphasis
Camera movement

2. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Keys
makes running a set more efficient
Tell a story

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

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4. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
B-Roll
Tell a story
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Pictorial representation of the film

5. What is a story bored
it's portable
Pictorial representation of the film
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
makes running a set more efficient

6. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
makes running a set more efficient
In visioning a result
Director
Tell a story

7. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Camera movement
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Issue of power and sex
Director

8. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Issue of power and sex

9. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
Issue of power and sex
edit suite
Result direction
Report to the 1st AD

10. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Who's scene is it
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Director
Conversion

11. Why do you do a callback?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
To be a mirror
Show commitment show ability to perform
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

12. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Pictorial representation of the film
Issue of power and sex
Repetition is the death of creativity
Camera movement

13. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Result direction
Result direction
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

14. 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?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Pictorial representation of the film
Keys

15. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
They Need to observe
Result direction
Director
Show commitment show ability to perform

16. What is the importance of close-ups?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
They Need to observe
Emotions and emphasis
Report to the 1st AD

17. What is result direction?
They Need to observe
In visioning a result
To be a mirror
Conversion

18. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
In visioning a result
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
To have an idea of how they talk

19. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Emotions and emphasis
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Repetition is the death of creativity
In visioning a result

20. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Pictorial representation of the film
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Result direction

21. 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.
What they gain.
Report to the 1st AD
Tell a story

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

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23. What is a pitch in one world?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Conversion
Issue of power and sex
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

24. Three important direction to give an actor.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Who's scene is it
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

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

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26. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
it's portable
makes running a set more efficient
To have an idea of how they talk

27. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Eye contact
Pictorial representation of the film
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
They Need to observe

28. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Tell a story
edit suite
Keys

29. 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
Camera movement
To have an idea of how they talk
Call sheets

30. What is a story bored
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Pictorial representation of the film
They Need to observe
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

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

32. Why do you do a callback?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Yes cross out so they can focus more
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

33. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Eye contact
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Because that's result direction.
To be a mirror

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

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35. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
What they gain.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Who's scene is it
Director

36. 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
Report to the 1st AD
Keys
Because that's result direction.

37. What is the importance of close-ups?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Emotions and emphasis
Show commitment show ability to perform
Eye contact

38. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Director
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.

39. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Keys
They Need to observe
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Tell a story

40. What does gaffer do?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Call sheets
B-Roll
Sitting and standing is more powerful

41. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
Issue of power and sex
Camera movement
Repetition is the death of creativity
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

42. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Keys
makes running a set more efficient
To have an idea of how they talk

43. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
To eyes of the audience.
In visioning a result
Keys
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

44. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Result direction
B-Roll
Conversion
Camera movement

45. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
To eyes of the audience.
Issue of power and sex
To have an idea of how they talk

46. 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.
What they gain.
it's portable
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

47. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
What they gain.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Director
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

48. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Call sheets
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
In visioning a result
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

49. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
They Need to observe
What they gain.
Result direction

50. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
They Need to observe
What they gain.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
B-Roll