Everyone knows Jim Carrey to be the funny man or the overly dramatic character in almost every movie he is in. So when i came across “supercut it” a video assignment where we had to create a supercut montage i knew exactly who i was doing it on. So i thought up the great movies Jim Carrey was in and found the scenes where he is overly dramatic and kind of crazy. To complete this assignment I took the clips from Youtube and trimmed them down to short segments than combined them to make one big montage. I had trouble with the last one because I had to adjust the aspect ratio but for some reason MPEG Streamclip software that i downloaded was not giving me that option to change aspect ration like it did for the person in the tutorial on how to trim and combine. Here is what the tutorial showed:
Here is what my software options were:
But here is my Supercut montage of the Great Jim Carrey. Enjoy.
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This was a pretty cool assignment. The objective take a cliche from film and cut multiple clips into a supercut! I had fun with the overuse of rain in films and cut together some of my favorite examples.
“Create a supercut montage of overused dialogue, themes, motifs, filmmaking techniques, etc. for a particular character, tv show, film, and/or public figure. A supercut is a “fast-paced montage of short video clips that obsessively isolates a single element from its source, usually a word, phrase, or cliche from film and TV. Supercut.org collects every known example of the video remix meme.” For examples and descriptions of supercutsvisit:”-Submitted by: Michael Branson Smith
This assignment was to find a phrase or themes overused in a specific movie or tv show.
The hardest part of these assignments for me is thinking of what movie to use. So, i racked my brain for something. I don’t watch too much tv these days. But, I did in my childhood. I used to love ScoobyDoo. But, at the same time it always scared me.
So I used ScoobyDoo for this assignment and focused on my favorite characters. Scooby and Shaggy! As i searched youtube and watched old episodes i payed attention to stuff they said over and over. At first I wanted to use “ZOINKS”. Which is a made up phrase i guess. But, Shaggy says it all the time.
However, After a while I realized I would not have enough shots for that. Then, it hit me. In every episode there is ALWAYS a scream scene. Some monster pops out from somewhere and everyone makes a ridiculous face as they scream.
I selected several clips from YouTube and used “PwnYouTube” which i’ve previous downloaded into my bookmarks. This tool allowed my to download each as a MP4.
Once all the clips were on my computer I started to clip and cut the scenes. Many of the clips had several scream scenes in them. So, I opened them up one by one in MPEG. Here, I was able to use the “input”/ “output” process to clip the scene.
After going through this process with each clip several times, I had myself a good amount of screaming people from scooby Doo. I collaborated them in MPEG then exported the file into my Imovie. In imovie, I added music and a title/end slide.
This is 5 star, video assignment 608, Supercut It. The instructions were:
“Create a supercut montage of overused dialogue, themes, motifs, filmmaking techniques, etc. for a particular character, tv show, film, and/or public figure. A supercut is a “fast-paced montage of short video clips that obsessively isolates a single element from its source, usually a word, phrase, or cliche from film and TV.”
This assignment caught my eye because I love video montages, and I thought it would be really cool to create one myself. When I read this assignment I immediately knew I wanted to created a funny montage of the strange Sheldon Cooper from “The Big Bang Theory.” It is one of my favorite shows, I think I like it so much because of the funny things Sheldon says and does. Also, I am kind of socially awkward, not to the extent of Sheldon but I feel like I can kind of relate. This is a show my entire family watches together and loves; we even record the episodes just in case we aren’t around when they come on.
I think that even if you have never seen “The Big Bang Theory,” my video montage will allow you to experience Sheldon’s hilarious and awkward personality! I like to think of this montage as telling the story of Sheldon’s everyday life.
To create this montage, I first found funny Sheldon clips on YouTube. Then I downloaded each one I planned to use. Next I dragged the clips into Movie Maker (I stopped using Streamclip, It started messing up my computer!) and I trimmed the clips down to make the montage more fast-paced. I only kept the segments that were necessary. Once all of the clips were trimmed, I dragged them around until I was satisfied with the order. The most time consuming step was trimming down all of the clips.
This assignment is the SuperCut assignment. Essentialy, the idea was to take an overused dialouge, motif, theme, etc from a movie or TV show and mash them together. I’ve been watching way too much Prettly Little Liars, so that is what I decided to “super cut”. They scream way too much in the episodes. Like, the producers must have a bag of Halls cough drops on them at all times.
One example I watched was the Will Ferell supercut. I thought it was wonderful, really. The ds106er was right – Ferell plays the same character with the same voice and tone over and over again. He must be typecasted for everything now. Anywho, I thought it showed the purpose of the assignment very nicely.
Another one I watched was other exmaple using anime. This got it across extremely well! It was well edited and showed many exmaples of what to look for in anime.
I choose this assignment because I watch this show all the time, plus I’ve read the books. It has an interesting plot line that can be way too dramatic at times. Their screeches shock you, especially Spencer’s because her face always looks terrified. I noticed this before doing the assignment and when I saw this supercut, I thought that it would be perfect with this.
The story behind the whole show is that the girls are getting stalked by some unknown person named “A.” Without ruining it, that’s all I can tell you, but this idea of dramatic screams is in every ABC drama and every thriller movie and every horror movie. This idea stretches way beyond four rich girls getting stalked. I’m not sure when this zoomed in screaming because (I’m going to guess with Alfred Hitchcock) but it works wonders to make people anxious.
To make this, I downloaded the clips (A is reveled, Hanna gets hit by a car, Toby’s secret is reveled, Ian chasing Spencer) using PwnYouTube and plunked them into iMovie. From there I listened for screams for anytime they mummer “ahh help!” Then I selected that selection and moved it to the top of iMovie (I have iMovie ’08, so its still on the top where you “edit”). I didn’t add any transitions so it would be more dramatic. I like the effect of scream after scream.
“Create a supercut montage of overused dialogue, themes, motifs, filmmaking techniques, etc. for a particular character, tv show, film, and/or public figure.”
I decided to “supercut” clips of Will Ferrell being overly dramatic.
For this assignment the first thing I thought of after reading overused themes was Will Ferrell. He is the same character is EVERY movie he’s in! He can be funny but its always the same tactic, being over dramatic in average situations. The montage is just a few scenes of many, I’m sure you can think of others.
To make the montage I searched for clips of Will on youtube, downloaded them via PwnYouTube imported them to iMovie, cut the bits I wanted into a new project and uploaded it to youtube
Create a supercut montage of overused dialogue, themes, motifs, filmmaking techniques, etc. for a particular character, tv show, film, and/or public figure. A supercut is a “fast-paced montage of short video clips that obsessively isolates a single element from its source, usually a word, phrase, or cliche from film and TV. Supercut.org collects every known example of the video remix meme.” For examples and descriptions of supercuts visit:
