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Film Directing Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Report to the 1st AD
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Camera movement
Sitting and standing is more powerful

2. What does gaffer do?
B-Roll
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Report to the 1st AD
makes running a set more efficient

3. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
edit suite
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
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

4. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Result direction
Call sheets
Show commitment show ability to perform
Repetition is the death of creativity

5. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
B-Roll
Result direction
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
makes running a set more efficient

6. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Who's scene is it
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

7. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Pictorial representation of the film
Keys

8. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Eye contact
Who's scene is it
Emotions and emphasis
To be a mirror

9. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Call sheets
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Director

10. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
To be a mirror
They Need to observe
To have an idea of how they talk
Director

11. A documentary is created in the...
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
To be a mirror
edit suite
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

12. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Camera movement
What they gain.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Director

13. 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.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Conversion
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

14. What is result direction?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
To be a mirror
In visioning a result
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

15. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
B-Roll
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
makes running a set more efficient

16. Three important direction to give an actor.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Call sheets
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Eye contact

17. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Repetition is the death of creativity
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Issue of power and sex
Director

18. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Conversion
They Need to observe
Issue of power and sex
Who's scene is it

19. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Result direction
Director

20. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Keys
They Need to observe
B-Roll
edit suite

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

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22. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
What they gain.
Repetition is the death of creativity

23. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Result direction
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
B-Roll

24. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
To eyes of the audience.
edit suite
Director

25. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
What they gain.
To eyes of the audience.

26. What is the importance of close-ups?
Director
Emotions and emphasis
Tell a story
Sitting and standing is more powerful

27. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Tell a story
Emotions and emphasis

28. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
What they gain.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.

29. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
it's portable
Director

30. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
Conversion
They Need to observe
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
To be a mirror

31. 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
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Report to the 1st AD
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

32. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Emotions and emphasis
Director
To be a mirror

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

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34. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Result direction
Repetition is the death of creativity
Eye contact
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

35. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What they gain.
Call sheets
it's portable
Camera movement

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

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37. Why is craft services important?
Tell a story
Report to the 1st AD
Keys
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.

38. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Director
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Eye contact
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

39. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
They Need to observe
What they gain.
What they gain.

40. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Because that's result direction.
To be a mirror
Director
To eyes of the audience.

41. Why is craft services important?
They Need to observe
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Repetition is the death of creativity

42. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
Director
In visioning a result
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Yes cross out so they can focus more

43. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
To eyes of the audience.
Eye contact
In visioning a result
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

44. Three important direction to give an actor.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
What they gain.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

45. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Keys
To be a mirror
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Repetition is the death of creativity

46. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Who's scene is it
Emotions and emphasis
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.

47. What is a story bored
Pictorial representation of the film
What they gain.
Conversion
Director

48. A documentary is created in the...
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
To eyes of the audience.
edit suite
Tell a story

49. What is result direction?
In visioning a result
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
makes running a set more efficient
They Need to observe

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

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