Film Directing Exam

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• Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Tell a story
To have an idea of how they talk
Report to the 1st AD
Issue of power and sex


2. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Camera movement
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Sitting and standing is more powerful


3. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
To eyes of the audience.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Tell a story
Repetition is the death of creativity


4. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
To have an idea of how they talk
Director
They Need to observe
Report to the 1st AD


5. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Eye contact
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
makes running a set more efficient


6. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Show commitment show ability to perform
In visioning a result
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.


7. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Conversion
Emotions and emphasis
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Result direction


8. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
They Need to observe
Emotions and emphasis
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.


9. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
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.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Issue of power and sex


10. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
Conversion
They Need to observe
Repetition is the death of creativity
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage


11. Why is craft services important?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
makes running a set more efficient
To have an idea of how they talk


12. A documentary is created in the...
In visioning a result
edit suite
Issue of power and sex
They Need to observe


13. 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?
Because that's result direction.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Emotions and emphasis
B-Roll


14. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Because that's result direction.
Who's scene is it
Camera movement
They Need to observe


15. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
B-Roll
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
To be a mirror


16. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
makes running a set more efficient
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Show commitment show ability to perform


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

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18. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
They Need to observe
B-Roll


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

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20. What is the importance of close-ups?
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
makes running a set more efficient
Tell a story
Emotions and emphasis


21. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Result direction
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Eye contact
They Need to observe


22. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Because that's result direction.
Call sheets


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

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24. What is the importance of close-ups?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
B-Roll
Emotions and emphasis
Because that's result direction.


25. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Pictorial representation of the film
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Keys


26. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
B-Roll
Eye contact
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.


27. Why do you do a callback?
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Show commitment show ability to perform
Yes cross out so they can focus more
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage


28. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Conversion
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Director
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage


29. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
makes running a set more efficient
They Need to observe
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Conversion


30. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
Result direction
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
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.


31. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
Report to the 1st AD
To have an idea of how they talk
Director
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.


32. What is a story bored
Pictorial representation of the film
Result direction
Director
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.


33. What is result direction?
Camera movement
Camera movement
Director
In visioning a result


34. Three important direction to give an actor.
it's portable
Report to the 1st AD
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Show commitment show ability to perform


35. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
it's portable
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Sitting and standing is more powerful
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage


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

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37. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Camera movement
Keys
To have an idea of how they talk
edit suite


38. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Conversion
To be a mirror
Call sheets
What they gain.


39. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
To eyes of the audience.
Camera movement


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

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


42. 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.
Issue of power and sex
Call sheets
To eyes of the audience.


43. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
To eyes of the audience.
Eye contact
They Need to observe
Issue of power and sex


44. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
To eyes of the audience.
Pictorial representation of the film
What they gain.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.


45. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
B-Roll
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
To have an idea of how they talk
In visioning a result


46. What is result direction?
Keys
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
In visioning a result


47. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
edit suite
Report to the 1st AD
In visioning a result


48. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Keys
edit suite
Director
Sitting and standing is more powerful


49. What does gaffer do?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Eye contact
Sitting and standing is more powerful


50. Three important direction to give an actor.
edit suite
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
To eyes of the audience.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.