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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

"bust the take"

Hello,

Could somebody explain what "bust the take" mean?

Don’t finish a thought that is starting to head south. Instead, “bust the take” (stop talking, or talk directly to the interviewer), and then start again with the clean line you want to deliver.

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Here 'bust the take' means to somehow destroy the take (the piece of filmed interview) so they (the television or radio crew) cannot use it. I guess this could be simply stopping talking, which looks silly on camera so won't be used. Instead they will begin a new take and you have chance to say what you really meant to say in the first take.

— Johnb

  • Here 'bust the take' means to somehow destroy the take (the piece of filmed interview) so they (the television or radio crew) cannot use it.
  • I guess this could be simply stopping talking, which looks silly on camera so won't be used.
  • Instead they will begin a new take and you have chance to say what you really meant to say in the first take.
  • ) The advice is meant to stop a person being interviewed saying something stupid.
  • It is fairly common that people do say more than they mean because interviewers are trained to break the conventions of normal conversation.
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Here 'bust the take' means to somehow destroy the take (the piece of filmed interview) so they (the television or radio crew) cannot use it. I guess this could be simply stopping talking, which looks silly on camera so won't be used. Instead they will begin a new take and you have chance to say what you really meant to say in the first take. ('Going south' means going badly and getting wor
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