Film Directing Exam

Instructions:

• Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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• Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Tell a story
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Yes cross out so they can focus more


2. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
To have an idea of how they talk
Result direction
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
To eyes of the audience.


3. A documentary is created in the...
Eye contact
edit suite
Repetition is the death of creativity
moves and sets the direction of DOP.


4. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Eye contact
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
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.


5. Why do you do a callback?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Camera movement
Result direction
Show commitment show ability to perform


6. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
Report to the 1st AD
Emotions and emphasis
edit suite
What they gain.


7. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Emotions and emphasis
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
To eyes of the audience.


8. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Camera movement
Keys
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Emotions and emphasis


9. 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?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Because that's result direction.
B-Roll
Yes cross out so they can focus more


10. 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?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Report to the 1st AD
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Tell a story


11. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Because that's result direction.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Repetition is the death of creativity
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.


12. What does gaffer do?
Director
Pictorial representation of the film
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Keys


13. What is a pitch in one world?
What they gain.
Conversion
Keys
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.


14. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Camera movement
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Show commitment show ability to perform


15. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
They Need to observe
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
To have an idea of how they talk
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.


16. Three important direction to give an actor.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Repetition is the death of creativity
Report to the 1st AD
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.


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

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18. Why is craft services important?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
To be a mirror
Issue of power and sex
What they gain.


19. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
What they gain.
Who's scene is it
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
In visioning a result


20. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
makes running a set more efficient
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Camera movement
To have an idea of how they talk


21. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Repetition is the death of creativity
Call sheets
B-Roll
To have an idea of how they talk


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

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

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24. A documentary is created in the...
edit suite
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Emotions and emphasis
Keys


25. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Emotions and emphasis
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Camera movement


26. Why do you do a callback?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Show commitment show ability to perform
Eye contact


27. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Keys
In visioning a result
Conversion
Who's scene is it


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

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29. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Director
Eye contact
Camera movement
Report to the 1st AD


30. What is result direction?
Result direction
In visioning a result
Eye contact
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.


31. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Director
To have an idea of how they talk
Call sheets
Keys


32. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
To eyes of the audience.
What they gain.
Report to the 1st AD
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.


33. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
To have an idea of how they talk
B-Roll
Yes cross out so they can focus more


34. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Because that's result direction.
Show commitment show ability to perform
They Need to observe
To be a mirror


35. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Because that's result direction.
Who's scene is it
Repetition is the death of creativity
To be a mirror


36. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Keys
Eye contact
edit suite
To be a mirror


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

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38. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
edit suite
Director
Yes cross out so they can focus more


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

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40. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Result direction
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
makes running a set more efficient
moves and sets the direction of DOP.


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

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42. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
Keys
Emotions and emphasis
makes running a set more efficient
To be a mirror


43. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
it's portable
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Director
To have an idea of how they talk


44. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Eye contact
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.


45. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
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.


46. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Call sheets
Director
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Tell a story


47. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
To eyes of the audience.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Pictorial representation of the film
Director


48. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Conversion
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
To eyes of the audience.
They Need to observe


49. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Pictorial representation of the film
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage


50. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
What they gain.
Eye contact
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.