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


2. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
B-Roll
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
So the editor doesn't have to look through footage
To have an idea of how they talk


3. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Tell a story
Sitting and standing is more powerful


4. A documentary is created in the...
To be a mirror
Director
edit suite
Yes cross out so they can focus more


5. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Eye contact
Result direction
moves and sets the direction of DOP.


6. What does gaffer do?
To have an idea of how they talk
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
Issue of power and sex
They Need to observe


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

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8. 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
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Who's scene is it
Who's scene is it


9. What in documentary shooting terms - is meant by a sequence.
To eyes of the audience.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
They Need to observe
B-Roll


10. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
B-Roll
Yes cross out so they can focus more
To have an idea of how they talk
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.


11. 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?
In visioning a result
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Conversion


12. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Camera movement
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Sitting and standing is more powerful


13. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Result direction
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Eye contact
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.


14. Do you shoot b-roll with a subject or interview them first? Why or why not?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
B-Roll
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Result direction


15. What does a drawn storyboard give you information about that a written storyboard will not?
Keys
Camera movement
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
it's portable


16. What is the point of a director on fiction and doc.
Director
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Eye contact
Tell a story


17. Why is it important to mark a script with camera setups?
Repetition is the death of creativity
Director
Issue of power and sex
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.


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

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19. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
What they gain.
B-Roll
They Need to observe
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.


20. 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.
To be a mirror
Keys


21. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
What they gain.
B-Roll
makes running a set more efficient


22. Three important direction to give an actor.
Result direction
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.
What they gain.


23. Give an example of using blocking to enhance the dramatic content of a scene between two people?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Keys
Sitting and standing is more powerful


24. Why is crew hierarchy important on a set?
makes running a set more efficient
Show commitment show ability to perform
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Who's scene is it


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

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26. Why should give compliments or suggestions to the actors on a set?
To have an idea of how they talk
Director
edit suite
it's portable


27. What is the importance of close-ups?
Director
Emotions and emphasis
Director
Conversion


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

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29. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
They Need to observe
Keys
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


30. What is a story bored
What they gain.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Issue of power and sex
Pictorial representation of the film


31. Directors Dramatic Breakdown
To eyes of the audience.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.
Sitting and standing is more powerful
To have an idea of how they talk


32. What is the role of the assistant director in both pre-production and production?
Call sheets
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
the shot list is a list that obtains storyboard and additional coverage
Report to the 1st AD


33. What does 'raising the stakes' mean in terms of directing actors?
B-Roll
What they gain.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
To have an idea of how they talk


34. Why is it important to pre-interview your documentary subject?
Tell a story
makes running a set more efficient
Keys
To have an idea of how they talk


35. In pre production who others that actors should the director hold meetings with?
Eye contact
Report to the 1st AD
Keys
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.


36. Three important direction to give an actor.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Because a hungry crew is a angry crew.
Repetition is the death of creativity
Tell a story


37. Who should ideally say 'Action' and 'Cut' on set? Why
B-Roll
it's portable
Director
Because that's result direction.


38. 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?
Yes cross out so they can focus more
Issue of power and sex
Pictorial representation of the film
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.


39. 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.
Report to the 1st AD
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
Because that's result direction.


40. 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.
Why not - b roll helps tell the story
Camera movement


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

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

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43. What does gaffer do?
moves and sets the direction of DOP.
it's portable
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
When the director and explains what they need to project. Through needs and wants.


44. Name an important aspect of conducting an interview in a documentary.
Eye contact
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.
Who's scene is it
So that you can per pare for the set up with camera movements and lenses.


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

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46. What is the importance of close-ups?
it's portable
Emotions and emphasis
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
edit suite


47. What is the relationship of the storyboard to the shot list?
Repetition is the death of creativity
Issue of power and sex
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.


48. What is meant in 'actors language' by the word action - how is it expressed?
Because that's result direction.
Because that's result direction.
What do they want - what they want from each other - and how can they get it.
Their tactic verbs - you set up the situation for the actor.


49. What is a pitch in one world?
You want to be there not looking at a screen.
What they gain.
Conversion
Who's scene is it


50. Why shouldn't a director read with the actors during the casting?
They Need to observe
To be a mirror
To eyes of the audience.
Director