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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Who's scene is it
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Director
In visioning a result


2. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Call sheets
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Director
Pictorial representation of the film


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

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4. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
What they gain.
Report to the 1st AD
Issue of power and sex
Camera movement


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

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6. 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.
Pictorial representation of the film
Call sheets
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage


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

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8. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Camera movement
Repetition is the death of creativity
makes running a set more efficient
They Need to observe


9. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What they gain.
They Need to observe
B-Roll
Emotions and emphasis


10. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Issue of power and sex
To eyes of the audience.
B-Roll


11. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Eye contact
Keys
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.


12. Why is craft services important?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Because that's result direction.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Yes cross out so they can focus more


13. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Report to the 1st AD
Keys


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?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
makes running a set more efficient
In visioning a result
Because that's result direction.


15. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
To have an idea of how they talk
Keys


16. A documentary is created in the...
To eyes of the audience.
Tell a story
Issue of power and sex
edit suite


17. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Camera movement
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Call sheets
Emotions and emphasis


18. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Conversion
it's portable
Sitting and standing is more powerful
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.


19. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Eye contact
To eyes of the audience.
Repetition is the death of creativity
Director


20. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Conversion
Tell a story
Call sheets


21. 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.
What they gain.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Why not - b roll helps tell the story


22. A documentary is created in the...
edit suite
makes running a set more efficient
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Conversion


23. Why is craft services important?
Because that's result direction.
Keys
Director
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.


24. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
makes running a set more efficient
makes running a set more efficient
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
To eyes of the audience.


25. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
B-Roll
Because that's result direction.
Issue of power and sex
Show commitment show ability to perform


26. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Pictorial representation of the film
Report to the 1st AD
To be a mirror
You want to be there not looking at a screen.


27. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
edit suite
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Eye contact


28. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Director
Keys
Call sheets
They Need to observe


29. 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
Report to the 1st AD
Who's scene is it
moves and sets the direction of DOP.


30. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Camera movement
Director
Emotions and emphasis


31. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Issue of power and sex
To be a mirror
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Who's scene is it


32. What is a pitch in one world?
They Need to observe
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Pictorial representation of the film
Conversion


33. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Director
To be a mirror
Show commitment show ability to perform


34. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
What they gain.
Director
Report to the 1st AD
Issue of power and sex


35. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Issue of power and sex
Director
To have an idea of how they talk
Director


36. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Call sheets
it's portable
Tell a story
They Need to observe


37. Three important direction to give an actor.
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.
B-Roll
In visioning a result


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

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39. 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.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Camera movement


40. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Because that's result direction.
To have an idea of how they talk
Keys
Repetition is the death of creativity


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

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42. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
it's portable
Result direction
Call sheets


43. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Director
Eye contact
Because that's result direction.
Show commitment show ability to perform


44. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Issue of power and sex
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Tell a story
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.


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

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46. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Because that's result direction.
Result direction
Camera movement
What they gain.


47. What is a story bored
What they gain.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Pictorial representation of the film


48. What is result direction?
In visioning a result
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
To have an idea of how they talk
Report to the 1st AD


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

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50. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Show commitment show ability to perform
To eyes of the audience.