Film Directing Exam

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• Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the importance of close-ups?
Emotions and emphasis
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Keys
Camera movement


2. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Director
Eye contact
Camera movement
Conversion


3. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
Result direction
edit suite
B-Roll
Call sheets


4. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Report to the 1st AD
Issue of power and sex
To eyes of the audience.
Show commitment show ability to perform


5. 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
Result direction
To eyes of the audience.
Issue of power and sex


6. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
B-Roll
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Keys
Why not - b roll helps tell the story


7. 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
edit suite
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.


8. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
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.
Who's scene is it


9. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Call sheets
makes running a set more efficient
What they gain.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.


10. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
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.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage


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


12. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Pictorial representation of the film
Director


13. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
Who's scene is it
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
B-Roll
Who's scene is it


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

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15. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Call sheets
it's portable
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Sitting and standing is more powerful


16. Why do you do a callback?
Repetition is the death of creativity
They Need to observe
Show commitment show ability to perform
Director


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

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18. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
What they gain.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
edit suite
Result direction


19. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
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.
Pictorial representation of the film
Repetition is the death of creativity


20. Why do you do a callback?
Because that's result direction.
Show commitment show ability to perform
What they gain.
To eyes of the audience.


21. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Result direction
To have an idea of how they talk
Keys


22. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
Camera movement
Report to the 1st AD
Because that's result direction.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.


23. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Conversion
Result direction
To be a mirror
Eye contact


24. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
B-Roll
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Eye contact
Repetition is the death of creativity


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

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26. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Tell a story
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
B-Roll
Pictorial representation of the film


27. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
it's portable
Issue of power and sex
They Need to observe
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage


28. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Director
They Need to observe
Keys
Issue of power and sex


29. A documentary is created in the...
Call sheets
To have an idea of how they talk
Pictorial representation of the film
edit suite


30. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Show commitment show ability to perform
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
They Need to observe


31. Three important direction to give an actor.
Because that's result direction.
In visioning a result
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
makes running a set more efficient


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

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33. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
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.
Conversion
They Need to observe


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

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

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36. Why is craft services important?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
To have an idea of how they talk


37. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Director
Because that's result direction.
Eye contact
What they gain.


38. What is a pitch in one world?
To have an idea of how they talk
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Conversion


39. 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.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Report to the 1st AD
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.


40. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
makes running a set more efficient
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Keys
Result direction


41. What does gaffer do?
To be a mirror
Because that's result direction.
Issue of power and sex
moves and sets the direction of DOP.


42. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
makes running a set more efficient
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Who's scene is it


43. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
To be a mirror
To have an idea of how they talk
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Report to the 1st AD


44. What is the importance of close-ups?
In visioning a result
To have an idea of how they talk
Emotions and emphasis
Pictorial representation of the film


45. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Director
Director
Tell a story
it's portable


46. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Report to the 1st AD
What they gain.
Director


47. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Issue of power and sex
Tell a story
Tell a story
Result direction


48. 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?
Emotions and emphasis
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Call sheets
They Need to observe


49. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
Eye contact
Tell a story
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.


50. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Emotions and emphasis
To have an idea of how they talk
Director
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage