Film outtake

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An outtake can be a take or scene, as of a movie, or a television program, that is filmed but not used in the final cut, usually for "pacing" reasons. Some of these are humorous mistakes known as bloopers. An outtake may also be a complete version of a recording that is dropped in favour of another version.

Often outtakes can be found as special featurers on DVDs. Outtakes can also be found playing over credits at the end of a film or TV program. Well known examples of this are Jackie Chan movies, almost all of which play outtakes at the end of the movie.

Music outtake

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Just like a movie outtake, music outtakes are recordings that are not used in a final version of an album. Often, artists release collections of outtakes of their earlier material. Often, outtakes are grouped in with demos and unreleased songs. Collections of this material is often compiled and distributed illegally by fans, and known as a bootleg recording.

Occasionally collections of outtakes become recognized as part of an artist's major creative output, especially in cases where an artist is unusually prolific or dies young. An example of the former is the seven-volume Bootleg Series from Bob Dylan, which contains many important Dylan songs omitted from his albums, some of which were made famous by other artists. An example of the latter is the CD Time of No Reply by Nick Drake, a British singer-songwriter who died almost unknown at the age of 26 in 1974, but whose music later became highly influential on other artists in subsequent decades.