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Understanding Film Direction

This quiz tests your knowledge of film direction, covering key roles, techniques, and concepts related to filmmaking.

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1 [1] Many people also consider film producers, cinematographers, ________, and special effects experts to be filmmakers[2].

2 The director also advises on the ________ of the final images, adding warmth or frigidity to the composition of the shots to reflect the emotional subtext of the character or environment.

3 Night Shyamalan, Paul Haggis, ________, James Wong, Tyler Perry, Robert Rodriguez and Satyajit Ray.

4 A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making and/or the production of a ________.

5 Director of audiography/________/Supervising Sound Editor

6 Directors often use ________ to illustrate sequences and concepts, and a director's viewfinder to set up camera angles.

7 A film director is a person who visualizes the screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and ________ in the fulfillment of his or her vision.

8 Outline a general plotline and let the actors ________ dialogue.

9 ________ on screenplays with long-standing writing partners.

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • Time magazine covers have featured self-portraits of film director and artist Matt Mahurin, who has portrayed himself as Sigmund Freud, a caveman and an Abu Ghraib prisoner.
  • Satoru Kobayashi, one of Japan's most prolific directors, wrote and directed the first pink film in 1962.
  • Gigantic, a film about a single man deciding to adopt a baby, was inspired by writer–director Matt Aselton's childhood wish for his parents to adopt a baby from China.
  • Red Road is the first of three films in the Advance Party trilogy, each of which are to be set in Scotland using the same characters and cast, and directed by a different first-time director each time.
  • American film director Jim Fields recently wrote, produced and directed a documentary called Bugeaters.
  • Safi Faye is a Senegalese film director whose work is better known in Europe than in her native Africa.
  • Robert Van Lierop is an American film director who became one of Vanuatu's senior diplomats in the 1980s.
  • ChristianCinema.com gives filmmakers a place to submit screening copies of their work with the possibility of being distributed and promoted by the website.
  • Jacqueline Audry was the first commercially successful woman film director of post-war France.
  • Kishan Shrikanth, age ten, is in the process of directing a Kannada-language feature film, C/o Footpath, which will almost certainly make him the youngest director ever to release a commercial feature film.
  • Prema Karanth is the first woman to direct a Kannada film.
  • Mexican actress Pina Pellicer played the lover of Marlon Brando in One Eyed Jacks, the only movie Brando directed.
  • a film director hired independent film actress Tanna Frederick when she praised a film of his—one she had not seen.
  • the 1983 rock and roll comedy film Get Crazy was a tribute to the famed Fillmore East theater, where director Allan Arkush once worked as an usher.
  • the 2007 French science fiction film Eden Log, created by first-time director Franck Vestiel, was shot using only hand-held cameras.
  • the Swedish government canceled a short film about AIDS that they commissioned from film director Roy Andersson because he had made it "too dark in its message".
  • the United States superhero film John Hancock went through four directors before succeeding in being made with director Peter Berg.
  • the scandalous murder of silent film director William Desmond Taylor has never been solved.
  • innovative Indian film director Ritwik Ghatak's first feature film Nagarik premiered after his death, twenty-four years after it was made.
  • in 1999, Song Il-gon became the first Korean filmmaker to win an award at the Cannes Film Festival.
  • after Bernard Natan directed and acted in hardcore heterosexual and bisexual pornographic films from 1920 to 1927, by 1929 he owned the giant French movie studio PathĂ© and later helped develop the anamorphic film lens.
  • after the attack on Pearl Harbor, director John Huston was forced to leave In This Our Life to fulfill an assignment for the War Department, and Raoul Walsh was called in to complete the film.
  • former professional boxer Giichi Nishihara was the writer-director of such Japanese cult pink films of the 1960s and 1970s as Abnormal Reaction: Ecstasy and Grotesque Perverted Slaughter.
  • in 1937, Bangladeshi film director Khan Ataur Rahman won the first prize of Dhaka Zilla Music Competition, when he was in third grade.
  • Antoni Bohdziewicz, a Polish film director, was a member of the Armia Krajowa Polish resistance and worked on a documentary film made and shown entirely in besieged Warsaw.
  • American film director Keith Gordon decided to adapt the novel of obsessive passion, Waking the Dead, into a movie before he finished reading it.
  • film director Brett Simon taught film history, film theory and video production at the University of California, Berkeley while completing two degrees there.
  • film director Arie Posin's father did not allow him to watch television as a child despite being a professional filmmaker himself.
  • film director Jens Lien said he was unable to sleep after first reading the script for the dystopian film Den brysomme mannen.
  • Finnish film director Valentin Vaala was reportedly so disappointed with his first film that he dumped the original camera negatives into the sea.
  • gay pornographic film director Scott Masters directed more than 100 loops before founding his own company, Nova Studios.
  • director Goran Dukić chose only songs by musicians who had committed suicide to accompany his 2007 film Wristcutters.
  • English director and actor Steven Berkoff featured in a two-minute film inviting the viewer to Watch Your Own Heart Attack.
  • Brazilian director Humberto Mauro first became interested in film after buying a Kodak camera in 1923, and won the Brazilian film of the year award only 4 years later.
  • Japanese director Kei Kumai's Sandakan No. 8 lost the 1975 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film to a film by another Japanese director, Akira Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala.
  • South Korean screenwriter and director Byeon Seung-wook spent five years working on the scenario for his 2006 directorial debut film, Solace.
  • Czech film and stage director Evald Schorm was a notable exponent of the New Wave in Czechoslovak cinema.
  • Graham Linehan, co-creator of Father Ted, made his directorial debut with the comedy horror short film Hello Friend.
  • blacklisted U.S. film director John Berry worked without screen credit on the 1951 Laurel and Hardy film Atoll K.
  • writer-director Brian Dannelly was expelled from the first grade for hitting a nun at his Catholic elementary school.
  • Satyajit Ray, the noted Indian film director, also wrote popular fiction, especially detective stories and science fiction in Bengali.
  • writer-director Bruce A. Evans described directing his first film in 15 years, Mr. Brooks, as "like riding a bicycle".
  • writer-director Joel Hopkins made Last Chance Harvey to recreate the chemistry he had seen between actors Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman in a theatre production.
  • writer-director Zoe Cassavetes appeared in her late father's film Minnie and Moskowitz at the age of one.
  • Norwegian director Nils Gaup was nominated for an Academy Award for the Sami language film The Pathfinder.
  • Dutch film pioneer Willy Mullens worked as a human cannonball before becoming a film director.
  • Indian film director Mohan Krishna Indraganti won eleven awards including the National Film Award and Nandi Award for his first directorial venture.
  • Italian film director Marco Ferreri hired actor Michel Piccoli almost immediately after the two first met for his art house masterpiece Dillinger Is Dead.
  • Japanese film director and actress Tomoko Matsunashi was described as one of the Japanese directors who "have brought some needed originality and talent to contemporary Japanese cinema".
  • John Huston quit his directing job on the 1971 action film The Last Run after fighting with George C. Scott, the film’s star.
  • Albanian film director DhimitĂ«r Anagnosti, winner of many national and international awards, is also the screenwriter of most of the films he directs.
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