Timeline for Why does "No-one ever get it in the first take"?
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| Feb 21, 2021 at 8:29 | comment | added | Tetsujin | @RobbieGoodwin - it's hyperbole, a linguistic emphasis. You're supposed to read the answers before posting such an obvious question to the question. | |
| Feb 21, 2021 at 2:23 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | What makes you think “No-one ever gets it in the first take”? Even if most people fail, where does your "no-one" come from? | |
| Feb 20, 2021 at 18:13 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | Sometimes actors get it in the first take, but for all the director knows, if they try it ten more times, somewhere in there they'll get a performance or a line delivery even better than anything they could have imagined. Making a movie isn't like building a house from detailed construction plans. It's creative. There's no particularly firm definition of what "it" is. | |
| Feb 20, 2021 at 9:08 | comment | added | Hagen von Eitzen | Because "Let's fix in in post" never really works | |
| Feb 20, 2021 at 4:07 | comment | added | gregsdennis | Voice actor Rob Paulsen did "Yakko's World" in one take. | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 19:03 | history | edited | Tetsujin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 19, 2021 at 15:19 | comment | added | Delioth | @Randal'Thor 1st take for stage actors? You mean 50th take, since theatre normally has at least some rehearsals before the actual performance. With film, you get to retry, so might as well film those rather than rehearsing it a dozen times and then actually filming. | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 14:20 | comment | added | Mr_Thyroid | You're taking it too literally - what you don't get from the first take is a back-up and options in the editing room. | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 13:36 | comment | added | Tetsujin | @BruceWayne - the Willy Wonka reaction was that the kids had never seen the room full of sweets before the first take. | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 12:57 | comment | added | Graham | @Randal'Thor It's more that theatre is different. In theatre, you're playing to people who are anything from 5m to 50m away from the actors in a consistent location. There are no such things as close-ups, camera moves, focus changes, and so on. Extras are cast members with a costume change (or perhaps junior cast members), not random members of the public. Nothing stops for background noises. And perhaps most importantly, the audience inherently have to suspend disbelief because this is clearly a stage and not a bar/house/castle/battlefield. None of this is true for film or TV. | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 12:23 | comment | added | J... | @Randal'Thor Theatre actors also perform the same show night after night. A film is way more agile - scenes are mostly short bits of a minute and a film is just a bunch of one minutes scenes glued together. When you're only shooting a one minute scene there's only so much you can practice. Theatre isn't perfect, either. There the art is more about "polishing over" minor mistakes, gaffes, etc - the show must go on. Film is a studio creation, so the focus is on making it perfect. A do-over for a one-minute scene is easy once you're set up, so it tends to get worked until it's perfect. | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 9:16 | comment | added | NotThatGuy | There are often multiple takes, but "no-one ever" getting it on the first take is probably hyperbole. Also, in some cases where they have multiple takes, they could decide the first one is best (which may or may not count as "getting it on the first take"). | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 8:09 | comment | added | Risadinha | Theatre actors rehearse a lot together before they perform live. Is that comparable to rehearsing for movies? | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 7:57 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor | It's interesting that in theatre actors do need to get it in the first take, because they're performing live in front of an audience. I've often wondered if this is why so many famous actors (at least in my country) started out in theatre before moving to the screen: because succeeding in live performance actually requires more acting skill than succeeding in film where you can have as many takes as you need. | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 5:11 | comment | added | hobbs | @BruceWayne the somersault. Or the boat tunnel freak-out. | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 5:08 | comment | added | hobbs | I think it's really "no one bets the farm on getting it in one take". | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 3:05 | comment | added | BruceWayne | What's the visceral reaction in Willy Wonka? | |
| Feb 18, 2021 at 23:29 | answer | added | Cadence | timeline score: 23 | |
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| S Feb 18, 2021 at 11:34 | answer | added | Tetsujin | timeline score: 105 | |
| S Feb 18, 2021 at 11:34 | history | asked | Tetsujin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |