Television Director (TV Director) Interview Questions

16 Share an experience in which your willingness to lead or offer an opinion helped your company.
17 Provide an experience that demonstrates your ability to manage time effectively. What were the challenges and results?
18 Provide a time when you dealt calmly and effectively with a high-stress situation.
19 Share a time when you willingly took on additional responsibilities or challenges. How did you successfully meet all of the demands of these responsibilities? (Make sure the candidate is a self-starter and can demonstrate some initiative.)
20 Provide an example of when you were persistent in the face of obstacles.
21 Share an example of when you established and accomplished a goal that was personally challenging. What helped you succeed?
22 Tell me about a time when you developed your own way of doing things or were self-motivated to finish an important task.
23 Provide a time when you worked in a rapidly evolving workplace. How did you deal with the change? (Make sure the candidate is flexible.)
24 Name a time when your patience was tested. How did you keep your emotions in check?
25 How do you plan details such as framing, composition, camera movement, sound, and actor movement for each shot or scene? Share an example.
26 What is the most challenging part of studying and researching scripts to determine how they should be directed?
27 Name a time when your creativity or alternative thinking solved a problem in your workplace.
28 What methods have you found effective to communicate to actors the approach, characterization, and movement needed for each scene in such a way that rehearsals and takes are minimized?
29 Provide an example when your ethics were tested.
30 Walk me through how you collaborate with film and sound editors during the post-production process as films are edited and soundtracks are added.