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Film Directing Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
They Need to observe
Conversion
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

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

3. What is a story bored
it's portable
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Pictorial representation of the film
To have an idea of how they talk

4. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
makes running a set more efficient
They Need to observe
Conversion
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

5. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
Because that's result direction.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

6. What is a pitch in one world?
To be a mirror
Conversion
To be a mirror
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

7. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Pictorial representation of the film
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?
B-Roll
Call sheets
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

9. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
What they gain.
Call sheets
Result direction
Director

10. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
To have an idea of how they talk
Result direction
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Report to the 1st AD

11. What is the importance of close-ups?
Eye contact
Keys
Emotions and emphasis
What they gain.

12. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
They Need to observe
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
B-Roll
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

13. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
They Need to observe
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Because that's result direction.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

14. What is result direction?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
In visioning a result
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

15. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Eye contact
Camera movement
In visioning a result
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

16. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
In visioning a result
makes running a set more efficient
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Issue of power and sex

17. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
They Need to observe
To be a mirror
Who's scene is it
Director

18. What is the importance of close-ups?
Emotions and emphasis
Camera movement
Show commitment show ability to perform
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

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

20. Three important direction to give an actor.
To eyes of the audience.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
edit suite
Conversion

21. Why is craft services important?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
To have an idea of how they talk
Call sheets
Director

22. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
makes running a set more efficient
Result direction
it's portable
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

23. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
Who's scene is it
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
makes running a set more efficient

24. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
Camera movement
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Sitting and standing is more powerful

25. What does gaffer do?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Keys
Repetition is the death of creativity
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

26. A documentary is created in the...
Emotions and emphasis
To be a mirror
Issue of power and sex
edit suite

27. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
it's portable
Result direction
Tell a story
To be a mirror

28. 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.
To eyes of the audience.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
In visioning a result

29. What is a story bored
Emotions and emphasis
Result direction
Pictorial representation of the film
Keys

30. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Camera movement
Repetition is the death of creativity
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

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

32. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Tell a story
Pictorial representation of the film
Repetition is the death of creativity
Director

33. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
makes running a set more efficient
Eye contact
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

34. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Director
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Who's scene is it

35. Three important direction to give an actor.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
B-Roll
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Camera movement

36. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What they gain.
To be a mirror
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
To have an idea of how they talk

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

38. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Show commitment show ability to perform
To be a mirror
Yes cross out so they can focus more

39. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Repetition is the death of creativity
Pictorial representation of the film
Conversion

40. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Director
Director
Pictorial representation of the film
What they gain.

41. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
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
Camera movement
Director

42. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
To eyes of the audience.
Tell a story
Result direction
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

43. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Issue of power and sex
B-Roll

44. What does gaffer do?
Result direction
Sitting and standing is more powerful
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
To have an idea of how they talk

45. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Call sheets

46. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
To be a mirror
Eye contact
Camera movement
Keys

47. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Repetition is the death of creativity
Camera movement
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

48. Why is craft services important?
Who's scene is it
Because that's result direction.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

49. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Eye contact
Director
In visioning a result
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

50. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
edit suite
Eye contact
Sitting and standing is more powerful
You want to be there not looking at a screen.