I&AR Student Council 2018-19

Managers Application

Peepal Pol

Instructions:
1. Read Instructions carefully.
2. This application comprises of 3 segments : (i) General filmmaking (to test
your knowledge of basic filmmaking), (ii) Specialisation (select one if you’re sure
what you want to do, otherwise try to attempt all to get an idea!), (iii) General
knowledge(to test gen awareness)
3. The third part is optional and an aspirant can opt to skip it. But it contains bonus
points.
4. Some of the sections contain subjective questions along with the objective ones.
5. For any doubts, queries or gen life fundaes, contact us anytime.
6. Please read annexure before coming for the interview.
 A. General Film-making
1. What is the correct workflow of filmmaking?
a) Idea, script-writing, storyboarding, location scouting, casting, scheduling, filming, editing,
music, re-recording and sound mix
b) Idea, storyboarding, script-writing, location scouting, casting, scheduling, filming, editing,
music, re-recording and sound mix
c) Idea, script-writing, location scouting, casting, storyboarding, scheduling, filming, editing,
music, re-recording and sound mix
d) Idea, script-writing, location scouting, storyboarding, casting, scheduling, filming, editing,
music, re-recording and sound mix

2. What is the first act in a screenplay known as?

a) Script
b) Setup
c) Resolution
d) Confrontation

3. Which of the following is a list of names of DSLR lenses?

a) Prime, zoom, telephoto, macro, wide angle, kit
b) Option a
c) Option b
d) All of the above

4. Which of these are prime colors?

a) Red, Green, Blue
b) Brown, Burgundy
c) Black, white
d) Pink Floyd, Black eyed peas, Green day.

5. Who is responsible for the budget expenditure and making sure that everything is running
smoothly during filming (by ensuring all the facilities and requirements are met before the filming
starts)?
a) Actor
b) Actress
c) Cinematographer
d) Production Manager

6. Whose job is it to do storyboarding with the director and discuss every camera angles and
lighting before the filming starts?
a) Editor
b) Production manager
c) IAR Secretary
d) Cinematographer
7. Whom should the script-writer discuss with before making the final draft?
a) Cinematographer
b) Editor
c) Production Manager
d) Director

8. What is the role of an Editor?

a) Giving advice to the director because editors are the new directors
b) Training the actors for the role
c) Making changes in the script
d) Assembling the shots into a coherent sequence.

9. What is a director responsible for?

a) Story
b) Performance of Actors
c) Editing
d) For controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizing the screenplay while
guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision.

10. Which of the following ideas, we should start working on?

a) Honest Series
b) Know your professor
c) Pun games(link)
d) None of the above (please suggest in the interview)

11. Which of the following movies have you watched? Rate them on a scale of 0-11. (will be
asked to elaborate at the interview)

a) 3 idiots h) Bahubali
b) The Dark Knight i) Premam
c) Munna Bhai MBBS j) La La Land
d) The Social Network k) Avengers
e) Pulp Fiction l) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing,
f) Gangs Of Wasseypur Missouri
g) Ratatouille
 B. Specialisations

DIRECTION:
1. What is the importance of a close-up shot?
a) To show we can take a close-up shot
b) To show the depth of emotion a character is experiencing
c) None of the above.
d) Because the academy loves it

2. What is the importance of background music in a movie?

a) To control the neurological activities that control the emotions of the audience.
b) To hide bad performance of an actor
c) माहौल बनता है
d) It’s easier to engage the audience with good music rather than a good script, direction,
editing or acting.

3. What is the importance of color grading in movies?

a) Color is light waves that are bounced of-of an object, or emitted from a light source, and
perceived by our eyes. Just like sound for our ears, there is a specific spectrum of
electromagnetic wave frequencies that our eyes perceive as color. Just as music and
sound can elicit feelings, color can do the same thing.
b) Colors can’t enforce feelings in the audience.
c) I watch movies in OAT, so I stay away from color grading.
d) Black and White's movies are the best.

4. Among these movies, which according to you should have won the academy award for the
best director this year? (*will be asked to elaborate at the interview)
a) “Dunkirk,” Christopher Nolan
b) “Get Out,” Jordan Peele
c) “Lady Bird,” Greta Gerwig
d) “Phantom Thread,” Paul Thomas Anderson

5. “Jack of all trades and master of none” is best suited for

a) Editor
b) Cinematographer
c) Actor
d) Director
 6. Which type of shot is this? (Hint: type of shots )

a) Longshot
b) Over the shoulder
c) Close-up
d) Deep Focus

7. How would you describe the work of Paul Thomas Anderson in one word?
a) Boring
b) Thriller
c) Philosophical
d) None of the above

CINEMATOGRAPHY:
1. Which triangle should you know to learn cinematography?
a) Love triangle
b) Bermuda Triangle
c) Isosceles Triangle
d) Exposure Triangle

2. In 35mm Prime Lens, what is 35mm?

a) Ring Length
b) Lens length
c) Hair length
d) Focal length
3. What is Bokeh effect?
a) The shot where everything is in focus
b) Shot where everything is not in focus
c) The shot where everything is black
d) The shot where everything is not present.

4. What is the golden ratio?

a) 1:1.618
b) 1:10(BTW that’s girl-boy ratio in insti)
c) 22:7
d) 32:24 (you should know this)

5. What are the jobs of cinematographers other than shooting?

a) DSLR wale bhaiyya.
b) Framers and shot selectors
c) Creating graphs out of the cinema (sorry for this BTW)
d) Know about lights and cinema.

6 What is ISO?
a) International Organization of Standardization.
b) The sensitivity of Image sensors
c) In search of (life)

7. What is Shutter speed?

a) The nominal time for which a shutter is open at a given setting.
b) The amount of time a shopkeeper take to open his shop’s shutter.
c) The amount of time digital sensor is exposed to light
d) Exposure time.

8. What are the parts of exposure triangle?

a) ISO, shutter speed, focal length.
b) Shutter speed, focal length, exposure.
c) ISO, shutter speed, aperture.
d) Exposure, aperture, focal length.

9. What is a quick release plate?

a) Stabilizer plate.
b) Tripod plate.
c) Gimbal plate.
d) Mess plates.

10. What problem(s) do you face while using the Flash?

a) A small change in settings can add a lot of grain in your shot
b) He travels in time and creates multiple timelines.
c) He doesn’t care about his friends.
d) You get a ghost image of anything that doesn’t stay still.
SCRIPTWRITING:
1. I write because...
a) I like to write.
b) There’s so much inside me which I cannot always say.
c) I am inspired by Chetan Bhagat.
d) Insta/Tinder require a good bio.
e) None of the above

2. Is there a difference between script and screenplay?

a) Yes
b) No
c) Maybe
d) Maybe not

3. True or False:
a) A negative character should deep down know that what (s)he is doing is wrong.
b) A character need not talk the way people do.
c) It’s okay to tell and remind the audience what they already know.
d) The jokes should not be confusing at all.

4. If you were to tell about a character’s past (backstory), which of the following would you
prefer? (Elaborate during the interview)
a) Visual Aids (Mise-en-scène)
b) On Screen Text (Star Wars)

c) Narration (Morgan Freeman, Piyush Mishra)

d) Flashback

5. Which of the following is the best Log Line of Munnabhai MBBS according to you?
a) A naive gangster decides to fulfill his father’s dream of becoming a Doctor.
b) A successful gangster falls in love with his Dean’s daughter while studying MBBS.
c) A gangster with his partner takes on the challenge of becoming a Doctor.
d) A gangster sets out to complete his father’s dream but fails.
6. What would be the premise of the following story?

“A Canadian girl falls in love with a Jewish lawyer. Her father refuses to accept the young man
and does everything in power to break up the romance because of the man’s religion. The
father and daughter had been devoted to each other. The girl must choose between her father
or the man she loves. She decides to marry her sweetheart, thereby breaking off relation with
her family.”

7. What is a good joke? Answer in one sentence.

8. Create 3 pieces of writing ( joke/story/conversation/pun/meme/play anything; and all 3 need

not be in the same category) comprising of at least one of the following words:

(i) Rust (ii) Red (iii) Ramu

EDITING:
1.What does an editor do?
a) Joins clips
b) Knows best about color theory
c) Studies rocket science.
d) Devises the virtual flow of the entire movie.

2.. What software are used for editing in our team?

a) Adobe creative suite.
b) Normal creative suite.
c) Raymond creative suite
d) Scissors.

3. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

a) Convocation.
b) Extension.
c) Bangalore.
d) Silicon Valley(We are out of options for your life, just like you)

4. Statement1, “ Editors decide the emotional flow of a movie”

Statement 2, “ Bcoz he just had a breakup and he is so emotional in life.”
a) Statement 1 and statement 2 are correct, and statement 2 is the correct explanation for
statement 1.
b) Statement 1 and statement 2 are correct, and statement 2 is not the correct explanation
for statement 1.
c) Statement 1 is true and statement 2 is false.
d) Statement 1 is false and statement 2 is true.
5. What do you learn by editing an interview?
a) You may listen to some important advice in life.
b) Get used to editing framework.
c) You learn to make attractive lower thirds (google this, I will definitely ask this in your
interview.)
d) It’s boring.

6. How do you choose audio for a video?

a) Saving stock whenever you listen to potential music candidate.
b) Random.
c) By making music yourself.
d) Being Preetam.

7. Choose a color for a warm and happy conversation.

a) Orange
b) Blue
c) Green
d) greyscale

8. What does an editor do during storyboarding (google it)?

a) Checks feasibility of deciding shots.
b) Stops director from being over visionary.
c) Sleep.
d) Takes lite, doesn’t attend it.

9. Difference between motion graphics and VFX.

a) Google it. Interview question.
b) Option a
c) Option b
d) All of the above

PRODUCTION MANAGER:
1. What do you think is the process of filmmaking?
a) Take camera start shooting (don’t do this in US schools).
b) Outsource it.
c) Know about minute aspects of every vertical of filmmaking.
d) Refer to the answer to question 1 in general questionnaire.

2. Role of a production manager?

a) Joint role
b) Paneer role
c) Management Role
d) Rolls royce

3. How do you keep track of things?

 a) Create a google sheet and keep it dynamic for the entire team
b) Meet people at Ramu and talk to them about it.
c) Go to their room and don’t move till they don’t tell you about it.
d) Create an app for ola and track them.

4. What are minutes of the meeting (MOM)?

a) The one you are living with since childhood.(Yeah she is awesome)
b) The total length of an interview which you shoot for LLS/Alum diaries.
c) A document containing discussions and points that happen in team meetings.
d) Short or minute people in a meeting.

5. What is the prominent difference between the production manager and a director?
a) Bro it’s subjective can’t help it.

6. Other than Peepal Pol head, the production manager is supposed to report to which head?
a) His own forehead, genius!
b) The operations head.
c) The security head (CSO).
d) The IITMTV head.

7. What happens when you cross the deadline?

Create options and tick one of it.

Possible interview questions (for everyone):

1. Why do you want to join the team?

2. Difference between IITMTV and Media club.
3. Critic election start-up video.
4. Suggest new ideas which the team can take up.
5. What happened to Arunabh Kumar (TVF Media labs)?
6. How to select fonts? (for Editors only)
7. How to learn cinematography without owning a DSLR.
8. Can DSLR change your relationship status?

C. General Knowledge (Optional)

(Contains bonus points)
1. Who is declared as the best prime minister in the world by UNESCO?
2. Complete the sentence: “ ”
3. Write a short note (100 words) on any one of it: Cambridge analytica,
Theranos(company), IBM Q, Aadhar and data security, deepfakes, IITMTV.
4. How many elephants are there in Insti?
5. Name the current IAR Dean and IAR student secretary of IITM.
6. How many secretary positions are there in Insti?
7. Suggest five things you want to eradicate from the Insti.
8. Where is heritage center?
9. Name one stud Alumnus of your hostel.
 -: Annexure:-
International and alumni Relations Student council:
International and alumni relations student council, a.k.a. IAR council is the student body
which comes under Dean IAR and bridges the gap between students and Alumni of the institute as
well as address the international affairs related to the students. Various teams under IAR council
leverages the alumni resource for the benefit of the insti, like Alumni relation cell, career
development cell, associations team. IAR student council also takes the responsibility of the Branding
of the institute and has a separate team (Institute branding cell) for it. Similarly, for the international
affairs, the council has International relations cell. In addition to these, the council has support teams
such as operations team, design team and mob-ops and web-ops managers. In addition to that, Peepal
Pol(Media production house) and Chennai36(Alumni Blog) comes under content development
vertical of the council.

Peepal Pol:
Peepal pol (Media Production house) act as a support team for other teams in the council (including
the office of Alumni Affairs) for their media requirement. But it works on its own projects for the
majority of the time and creates the content which is relevant to the institute student and alumni. Its
main focus is to connect with more and more alumni and students and bridge the gap between them.
Along with that it closely works with the Institute branding cell to create content which is helpful for
the branding of the institute and helps to reach the possible interest groups inside and outside Insti.
You can find our official channels: IITMTV and Pod, da!
You can also go through our AMM presentation in case if you missed it.

Team Structure and roles of the managers:

Peepal pol has two head positions, five chiefs of department positions and 20 managers’
position. The heads will guide, supervise and manage the team for various projects. The chief (of any
dept) will be highly skilled in that field and will train/guide his team in that field. Like ‘chief editor’
will be skilled in editing and motion graphics and will be training the editors under him and also act
as a referring point for all junior editors for any difficulties. Hence each vertical will be headed by its
chief.
Managers will be taken in the team as the creative managers and can apply for any
department of interest namely, cinematography, direction, editing, script writing, and production
management. All the managers will be introduced to basic filmmaking and video production. Apart
from that, they will learn about their own dept and its relation with other departments of the team.
We are mentioning below some useful links which will help you to understand the basics of each
dept: (You may skip these, It's not necessary)
The channels that you can follow to learn things:
https://www.youtube.com/user/RJFilmSchool
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChrEm1ir4-uBlucI445YYnQ
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSFAYalJ2Q7Tm_WmLgetmeg
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJbPGzawDH1njbqV-D5HqKw
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjFqcJQXGZ6T6sxyFB-5i6A
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcck1Zdvdt5aML_O32Y_Adg
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCErSSa3CaP_GJxmFpdjG9Jw
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJkMlOu7faDgqh4PfzbpLdg
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWTFGPpNQ0Ms6afXhaWDiRw
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC50iz5aJP46T5n7gGgGMBTQ
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcPuBEAwuF6XWXkcXJXJwsg
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6nSFpj9HTCZ5t-N3Rm3-HA
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpLfM1_MIcIQ3jweRT19LVw
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLHFJY0izPdBvx9Vm-iUaLA
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjnYk44Aj9E634TPucpIXnQ
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPYXRwMbAeEL0nLYen7QUjQ