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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Mamet in Chapter 3, "In addition to what you will or not learn about the medium through your desire to understand it, that desire itself will be ______."
2. According to Mamet in Chapter 3, he challenges the way people talk about any performance artist and the way they talk about whom?
3. In ADR, what does D stand for?
4. What is the term which means "it works correctly on paper but for some reason doesn't work when we get it on its feet"?
5. The purpose of technique is to free the what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Mamet say regarding the juxtaposition of uninflected images in Chapter 3?
2. What was Mamet's rule of thumb for cutting extraneous material from a film?
3. What is the backdrop of On Directing Film? From what setting did the author base the text?
4. How did Mamet describe Eisenstein's theory of montage?
5. What did Mamet write in Chapter 3 regarding film with political agendas?
6. What did Mamet write regarding dreams and film in Chapter 1?
7. Describe the objective and beats in the hypothetical film in Chapter 2.
8. How did Mamet describe human nature in piecing together stories from film?
9. What did Mamet write in the Preface regarding the blind author who decided to become a screenwriter?
10. What did Mamet write of producers in Chapter 2?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What tasks does the director face in pre-production for a film? How does this prepare him/her for shooting?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the career of author David Mamet and how he came to the world of film. What was the principle area of his expertise at the time he wrote On Directing Film?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Mamet's approach to the director's interaction with the actors and the camera operators on the set. What did he suggest in these interactions, and why?
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