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Film Directing Exam

Subjects : performing-arts, film
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?






2. What is result direction?






3. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?






4. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why






5. Why do you do a callback?






6. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?






7. 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?






8. What is a story bored






9. What is result direction?






10. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?






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


12. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?






13. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?






14. What does gaffer do?






15. Directors Dramatic Breakdown






16. Why is it not a good idea to tell an actor after a take to 'do exactly what you just did?






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


18. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?






19. In directing a film - what is a director's primary goal?






20. A documentary is created in the...






21. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?






22. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?






23. Why should you not tell an actor what to feel?






24. What is a pitch in one world?






25. Directors Dramatic Breakdown






26. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.






27. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.






28. If as a PA on a set you notice a boom reflection in a toaster on the set - who should you talk to?






29. What is meant by 'crossing the axis' by 'coverage?'






30. What is the directors ultimate duty to an actor?






31. What does gaffer do?






32. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?






33. A documentary is created in the...






34. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?






35. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?






36. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?






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


38. Why is craft services important?






39. Why do you do a callback?






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


41. Why is not a good idea for a director to only look at the video assist monitor while shooting a scene?






42. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?






43. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?






44. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?






45. What is a story bored






46. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?






47. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?






48. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.






49. Three important direction to give an actor.






50. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?