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Film Directing Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Eye contact
To eyes of the audience.
Repetition is the death of creativity
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

2. Three important direction to give an actor.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
To be a mirror
What they gain.
What they gain.

3. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
To eyes of the audience.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Call sheets

4. 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.
Tell a story
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Camera movement

5. 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.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Keys
To eyes of the audience.

6. Why do you do a callback?
Pictorial representation of the film
Show commitment show ability to perform
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Director

7. What is a story bored
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Issue of power and sex
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Pictorial representation of the film

8. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Who's scene is it
Tell a story
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Call sheets

9. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What they gain.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Show commitment show ability to perform
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

10. What is result direction?
Conversion
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
B-Roll
In visioning a result

11. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
Issue of power and sex
makes running a set more efficient
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
What they gain.

12. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Camera movement
makes running a set more efficient

13. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Who's scene is it
Camera movement
Director
Repetition is the death of creativity

14. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
B-Roll
Conversion
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Conversion

15. A documentary is created in the...
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
edit suite
Conversion
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

16. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
To be a mirror
Eye contact
In visioning a result

17. Why do you do a callback?
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.
B-Roll
Show commitment show ability to perform

18. 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.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Director

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

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20. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
Emotions and emphasis
Sitting and standing is more powerful
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Report to the 1st AD

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

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22. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
To be a mirror
To be a mirror
Tell a story

23. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Conversion
B-Roll
Director
Eye contact

24. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
What they gain.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Camera movement

25. What is the importance of close-ups?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Emotions and emphasis
Sitting and standing is more powerful

26. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Director
Show commitment show ability to perform
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Repetition is the death of creativity

27. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Tell a story
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
They Need to observe

28. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Sitting and standing is more powerful
it's portable
it's portable
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

29. What is a story bored
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Show commitment show ability to perform
Pictorial representation of the film

30. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Result direction
Pictorial representation of the film
They Need to observe

31. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Report to the 1st AD
it's portable
Call sheets
Sitting and standing is more powerful

32. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Director
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Report to the 1st AD

33. What is result direction?
Pictorial representation of the film
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
In visioning a result
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

34. 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?
Because that's result direction.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Repetition is the death of creativity

35. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
They Need to observe
Report to the 1st AD

36. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
They Need to observe
Call sheets
Report to the 1st AD
Keys

37. A documentary is created in the...
edit suite
In visioning a result
To be a mirror
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

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

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39. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Show commitment show ability to perform
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Keys

40. 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.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

41. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
They Need to observe
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

42. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Show commitment show ability to perform
it's portable
They Need to observe

43. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Director
Keys
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
makes running a set more efficient

44. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
B-Roll
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Call sheets
it's portable

45. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
What they gain.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Director

46. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
To have an idea of how they talk
Repetition is the death of creativity
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
To eyes of the audience.

47. What is the importance of close-ups?
Camera movement
Emotions and emphasis
Who's scene is it
Call sheets

48. What is a pitch in one world?
To have an idea of how they talk
Conversion
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Tell a story

49. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Camera movement
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
What they gain.

50. 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?
To eyes of the audience.
Because that's result direction.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Report to the 1st AD