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* It's not entirely clear if the opening of ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'' is intended to be this, or if it's intended to be a [[Show Within a Show|Movie Within A Movie]] that then cut to the actors. The camera is never seen, so it might not be intended as a single take.

* ''The Stunt Man''

* ''[[The Truman Show]]'' is pretty good when it comes to the visual ~~footage -- the~~ show does have the wonky camera angles, lack of/awkward use of camera movement, inappropriately close or far-away shots, etc, that you'd expect from a live show captured with hidden cameras. What is more problematic is the sound. All the dialogue is very clean and clear, as though caught on a high-end unidirectional mic from a couple of feet away, including a scene on a beach (beaches being notoriously awful places to record sound even under ideal conditions, usually requiring some degree of ADR for dialogue to even be comprehensible). At one point it's suggested that certain passers-by are concealing little shotgun mics on their person, but it's a [[Hand Wave]] at best.

* ''[[The Truman Show]]'' is pretty good when it comes to the visual footage—the show does have the wonky camera angles, lack of/awkward use of camera movement, inappropriately close or far-away shots, etc, that you'd expect from a live show captured with hidden cameras. What is more problematic is the sound. All the dialogue is very clean and clear, as though caught on a high-end unidirectional mic from a couple of feet away, including a scene on a beach (beaches being notoriously awful places to record sound even under ideal conditions, usually requiring some degree of ADR for dialogue to even be comprehensible). At one point it's suggested that certain passers-by are concealing little shotgun mics on their person, but it's a [[Hand Wave]] at best.

* ''An Alan Smithee Film: [[Burn Hollywood Burn]]'' desperately tries to justify using this trope, by portraying all the actors in the fictional movie as being total assholes who will only ever do one take of a given scene, which later becomes a sticking point when the director steals and destroys the film's master print. Like everything else in ''Burn Hollywood Burn'', though, it fails ~~dismally -- not~~ least because the fictional film is shown being edited on a computer at one point, meaning that a completed version of the film would probably survive in some form, even if the audio-visual quality was degraded.

* ''An Alan Smithee Film: [[Burn Hollywood Burn]]'' desperately tries to justify using this trope, by portraying all the actors in the fictional movie as being total assholes who will only ever do one take of a given scene, which later becomes a sticking point when the director steals and destroys the film's master print. Like everything else in ''Burn Hollywood Burn'', though, it fails dismally—not least because the fictional film is shown being edited on a computer at one point, meaning that a completed version of the film would probably survive in some form, even if the audio-visual quality was degraded.

* The Burt Reynolds film ''Hooper'' is nothing but stuntman scenes and stuntman activities, but runs mainly on [[Rule of Cool]] instead of accuracy.

* Francois Truffaut's ''[[Day for Night]]'' is basically a response to this trope. While it does show things like multiple takes (from different angles to keep it interesting) and the difficulties of making films, it goes a bit dramatic with worst case scenarios, including {{spoiler|actor death}}.

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== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[The Movies]]''. This game is about running a studio and making movies. However, you have to shoot all the scenes in ~~order--which~~ can mean that your cast and crew will shoot a scene on one set, then run to another set for the next scene, then back to the first one if that's where the next scene takes place. And if another movie is shooting on the set, they have to wait instead of shooting another part of the movie. And scenes are shot in a single take.

* ''[[The Movies]]''. This game is about running a studio and making movies. However, you have to shoot all the scenes in order—which can mean that your cast and crew will shoot a scene on one set, then run to another set for the next scene, then back to the first one if that's where the next scene takes place. And if another movie is shooting on the set, they have to wait instead of shooting another part of the movie. And scenes are shot in a single take.

** This can get particularly irritating if one cast member is out of action, usually due to alcoholism and stress. The entire shooting schedule has to be put on hold while said thespian is cured of his or her ailments, rather than e.g. letting the camera team film shots where the actors are not needed.

** How do they shoot the killing of movie-monsters? By literally putting a blade in the actor's neck.