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Film Directing Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A documentary is created in the...
Repetition is the death of creativity
Emotions and emphasis
B-Roll
edit suite

2. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
To eyes of the audience.
In visioning a result
B-Roll

3. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Director
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Call sheets
Keys

4. 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 a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
it's portable

5. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
In visioning a result
makes running a set more efficient

6. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
it's portable
What they gain.
To be a mirror

7. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Result direction
Issue of power and sex
makes running a set more efficient

8. Three important direction to give an actor.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Who's scene is it

9. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
To have an idea of how they talk
Keys

10. What is result direction?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
Director
In visioning a result

11. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Because that's result direction.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
In visioning a result
You want to be there not looking at a screen.

12. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?
Tell a story
To eyes of the audience.
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Director

13. Name two of the most frequent central conflicts of scenes.
Result direction
Issue of power and sex
To have an idea of how they talk
Why not - b roll helps tell the story

14. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Director
Result direction
Because that's result direction.
it's portable

15. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
makes running a set more efficient
B-Roll
Result direction
Sitting and standing is more powerful

16. Three important direction to give an actor.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
Director
Because that's result direction.

17. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?
Result direction
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
They Need to observe
B-Roll

18. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
To eyes of the audience.
To have an idea of how they talk
Sitting and standing is more powerful
In visioning a result

19. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
makes running a set more efficient
Because that's result direction.

20. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?
Keys
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Repetition is the death of creativity
What they gain.

21. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
They Need to observe
To have an idea of how they talk
Tell a story
Call sheets

22. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
Who's scene is it
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Conversion
Director

23. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
To eyes of the audience.
Who's scene is it
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.

24. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
it's portable
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Director

25. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
What they gain.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Yes cross out so they can focus more

26. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
Because that's result direction.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage

27. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
B-Roll
Director
Tell a story
Camera movement

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

29. Why do you do a callback?
Tell a story
Result direction
Show commitment show ability to perform
Sitting and standing is more powerful

30. What is the importance of close-ups?
Issue of power and sex
Emotions and emphasis
Eye contact
Director

31. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
To have an idea of how they talk
makes running a set more efficient
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

32. Why is craft services important?
To have an idea of how they talk
Show commitment show ability to perform
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Tell a story

33. What does gaffer do?
Camera movement
Result direction
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Emotions and emphasis

34. Why is craft services important?
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Repetition is the death of creativity
Pictorial representation of the film
Keys

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

36. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
Because that's result direction.
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Director
Because that's result direction.

37. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Camera movement

38. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
To have an idea of how they talk
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Report to the 1st AD

39. What is a story bored
Issue of power and sex
Pictorial representation of the film
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Show commitment show ability to perform

40. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
To eyes of the audience.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Camera movement
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage

41. 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?
makes running a set more efficient
Repetition is the death of creativity
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Yes cross out so they can focus more

42. What is the importance of close-ups?
Emotions and emphasis
What they gain.
Issue of power and sex
Result direction

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

44. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?
To be a mirror
To eyes of the audience.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Result direction

45. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
In visioning a result
Show commitment show ability to perform
it's portable
Sitting and standing is more powerful

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

47. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'
Crossing the axis=Going beyond 180 degrees - Coverage=Shooting additional footage.
Eye contact
To be a mirror
To eyes of the audience.

48. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Show commitment show ability to perform
What they gain.
it's portable
Camera movement

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

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