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Film Directing Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Pictorial representation of the film
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

2. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Pictorial representation of the film
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Repetition is the death of creativity
edit suite

3. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
B-Roll
Call sheets
Eye contact

4. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Who's scene is it
In visioning a result
Conversion
Camera movement

5. 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.
Pictorial representation of the film
Tell a story
edit suite

6. 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.
Camera movement
Report to the 1st AD
it's portable

7. What is the importance of close-ups?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Because that's result direction.
Emotions and emphasis
Director

8. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Who's scene is it
Emotions and emphasis
To have an idea of how they talk
What they gain.

9. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
it's portable
B-Roll
To be a mirror
makes running a set more efficient

10. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
To be a mirror
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Issue of power and sex

11. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
B-Roll
edit suite
They Need to observe
Call sheets

12. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Director
What they gain.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Result direction

13. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Issue of power and sex
Emotions and emphasis
Emotions and emphasis

14. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Show commitment show ability to perform
Eye contact
Call sheets
Director

15. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
In visioning a result
Emotions and emphasis
Emotions and emphasis
Issue of power and sex

16. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Conversion
To have an idea of how they talk
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Director

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

18. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Conversion
Keys
Director
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

19. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Director
Eye contact
They Need to observe
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

20. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Eye contact
In visioning a result
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

21. A documentary is created in the...
edit suite
Repetition is the death of creativity
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

22. What is result direction?
In visioning a result
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
B-Roll
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

23. Why is craft services important?
B-Roll
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Conversion
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

24. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Pictorial representation of the film
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Director
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.

25. What is a pitch in one world?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Conversion
Report to the 1st AD
Pictorial representation of the film

26. What is the importance of close-ups?
Emotions and emphasis
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Call sheets
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.

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

28. Why do you do a callback?
Conversion
They Need to observe
Show commitment show ability to perform
To eyes of the audience.

29. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Eye contact
Repetition is the death of creativity
What they gain.
They Need to observe

30. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
To be a mirror
Tell a story
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
makes running a set more efficient

31. A documentary is created in the...
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Pictorial representation of the film
edit suite

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

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

34. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
To be a mirror
In visioning a result
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Result direction

35. Why is craft services important?
To eyes of the audience.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Show commitment show ability to perform

36. What is a story bored
Show commitment show ability to perform
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Pictorial representation of the film
Result direction

37. What is result direction?
In visioning a result
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
To eyes of the audience.
Repetition is the death of creativity

38. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
Conversion
To eyes of the audience.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
makes running a set more efficient

39. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
In visioning a result
Eye contact
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
They Need to observe

40. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
makes running a set more efficient
Issue of power and sex
In visioning a result
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

41. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Pictorial representation of the film
Director
In visioning a result
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

42. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
To be a mirror
Keys
Issue of power and sex

43. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Camera movement
To have an idea of how they talk
To eyes of the audience.

44. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
makes running a set more efficient
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

45. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Camera movement
Because that's result direction.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Eye contact

46. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Repetition is the death of creativity
Director
What they gain.
Eye contact

47. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Eye contact
Conversion
Keys
Sitting and standing is more powerful

48. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
To be a mirror
makes running a set more efficient
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Issue of power and sex

49. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
Sitting and standing is more powerful
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Keys
Director

50. What does gaffer do?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Director
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.