Editing Take (section)

==Film==
In [[cinematography]], a take refers to each filmed "version" of a particular shot or "setup". Takes of each shot are generally numbered starting with "take one" and the number of each successive take is increased (with the director calling for "take two" or "take eighteen") until the filming of the shot is completed.{{citation needed|date=April 2019}}

Film takes are often designated with the aid of a [[clapperboard]]. It is also referred to as the slate. The number of each take is written or attached to the clapperboard, which is filmed briefly prior to or at the beginning of the actual take. {{citation needed|date=April 2019}}

Only those takes which are vetted by the [[continuity (fiction)|continuity person]] and/or script supervisor are printed and are sent to the [[film editor]].{{citation needed|date=April 2019}}

===Single-takes===
A '''single-take''' or '''one-take''' occurs when the entire scene is shot satisfactorily the first time, whether by necessity (as with certain expensive special effects) or by some combination of luck and skill.{{citation needed|date=April 2019}}

===Long takes===
{{Main|Long take}}
Some [[film director]]s are known for using very long, unedited takes. [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Rope (film)|Rope]]'' is famous for being composed of nine uninterrupted takes, each from four to ten minutes long. This required actors to step over cables and dolly tracks while filming, and stagehands to move furniture and props out of the camera's way as it moved around the room. The eight-minute opening shot of ''[[The Player (1992 film)|The Player]]'' includes people discussing long takes in other movies.{{citation needed|date=April 2019}}

Aleksandr Sokurov's ''[[Russian Ark]]'' (2002) consists of a single 90-minute take, shot on a digital format. Mike Figgis' ''[[Timecode (film)|Timecode]]'' (2000) consists of a single 90-minute take as well, albeit with four camera units shooting simultaneously. In the finished film, all four camera angles are shown simultaneously on a split screen, with the sound fading from one to another to direct audience attention.{{citation needed|date=April 2019}}

===Multiple takes===
Other directors such as [[Stanley Kubrick]] are notorious for demanding numerous retakes of a single scene, once asking [[Shelley Duvall]] to repeat a scene 127 times for ''[[The Shining (film)|The Shining]]''. During the shooting of ''[[Eyes Wide Shut]]'', Kubrick asked for 97 takes of Tom Cruise walking through a door before he was satisfied.  [[Charlie Chaplin]], both director and star of ''[[The Gold Rush]]'', did 63 separate takes of a scene where his character eats a boot—in reality, a prop made of [[licorice]]—and ended up being taken to the hospital for [[insulin shock]] due to the high sugar intake.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015864/trivia/|title=The Gold Rush (1925) - Trivia - IMDb|via=www.imdb.com}}</ref>  Chaplin also did 342 takes of a scene in ''[[City Lights]]'' (1931).{{citation needed|date=April 2019}}

In other cases, it is the actors who cause multiple takes.  One fight scene in [[Jackie Chan]]'s ''[[The Young Master]]'' was so intricate that it required 329 takes to complete.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081499/trivia|title=The Young Master (1980)|access-date=10 April 2018|via=www.imdb.com}}</ref>

Director [[Bryan Singer]] tried for a full day to get his desired shots of the cast of ''[[The Usual Suspects]]'' behaving sullenly in a police lineup, but the actors could not remain serious and kept spoiling the takes by laughing and making faces.  In the end, Singer changed his plan and used the funniest of the takes in the final movie to illustrate the contempt the criminals had for the police. {{citation needed|date=April 2019}}

During the filming of ''[[Some Like It Hot]]'', director [[Billy Wilder]] was notoriously frustrated by the retakes required by [[Marilyn Monroe]]'s inability to remember her lines.{{citation needed|date=April 2019}}