Pop Quiz - How many total film dailies from the scene "Follow Dave?"
What are "Circle Takes"?
Before you can take this pop quiz, you need to learn about circle takes.
Circle takes are the best takes for the scene. These are the takes that the director gives to the film editor. The other takes are ignored.
Procedure
When the director yells "Cut", the director must decide if she likes the take or not. If she likes the take, the director will also yell "Print it".
Then the camera person and the sound person circle the take numbers. This becomes a circle takes. These are the takes which are turned into film dailies. The bad takes are not turned into film dailies.
Look at the scene numbers
Now look at the scene numbers on each of the dailies in the scene called "Follow Dave?". You will see a scene number and a take number.
The scene number gets a new alphabet character after the take number for each different camera setup.
The take number increases with each filming of the scene (or filming of part of the scene.)
(If this is not clear, email me.)
Look for the missing numbers
Once you understand what the numbers mean, look for missing numbers. Do you see any gaps in the numbers? Those are the takes that the director did not think were good enough. These bad takes were not circle takes.
Now total up all the takes for this scene - the circle takes and the bad takes (the takes which were not circle takes.) This is the answer to the pop quiz!
The Pop Quiz
You get 2 points each for a correct answer to the following questions.
Pop Quiz - How many total film dailies from the scene "Follow Dave?"
