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Supercut It

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Submitted by: Michael Branson Smith

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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:

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Scenes Cut Short

One of my favorite movies, Children of Men directed by Alfonso Cuarón, makes almost religious use of long, winding shots that stay on the characters far longer than the viewer realizes. Cuarón loves to use these kinds of shots on all of his films, and the technique has become synonymous …

Dolly Zoom Supercut

by Thomas Pulsifer

For my final assignment bank task of this week, I’ve chosen Michael Branson Smith’s 5-star prompt to create a supercut montage of something that’s overused in film, be it a quote, song, or filmmaking technique. As someone who has a lot of appreciation for the technical side …

A Supernatural Supercut

Rating: 5 out of 5.

For my final assignment of the week (which also happens to be one of two five-star assignments I did this week) I decided to create a supercut video. I’ve seen many supercuts, because they seem to be a popular thing on YouTube. I was curious …

A Supernatural Supercut

Rating: 5 out of 5.

For my final assignment of the week (which also happens to be one of two five-star assignments I did this week) I decided to create a supercut video. I’ve seen many supercuts, because they seem to be a popular thing on YouTube. I was curious …

Coronavirus Supercut

For my second Video Assignment Bank I chose the Supercut It assignment. I again used iMovie to cut the clips and mash them together.

Given the current crisis the matter everyone has been talking about has been the spread of the Coronovirus and its prevention. I first went to YouTube …

You’ve got it….dude

For this video assignment I did a super cut of Michelle Tanners famous line from Full House, “You’ve got it dude!”. It took me a while to decide what 80’s themed phrase I could super cut, and full house popped into my head! There were already a few super cuts …

Jinkies!

For my last video assignment, I chose to do a Supercut of one of my favorite cartoons, Scooby Doo.  A supercut is when a creator will take short clips of reoccurring themes, styles, or lines from different movies or television shows, and put them altogether with no transitions.  The idea …

One Big Nightmare

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 …

Children of Men Long Takes Compilation

So I decided to watch the film Children of Men as my second film.

I enjoyed this movie way more than Night of the Living Dead. Children of Men was very beautifully done. The message of faith and hope was really shown throughout the film. The only thing that bothered …

Did Someone Say Spaceship???

I chose the movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still” as my second movie that I watched.  As I have never seen this movie before I was on the edge of my seat waiting to see what happened.  The copy that I was able to attain was through YouTube.

Did Someone Say Spaceship: Watch a movie make a movie

Assignment: Watch a Movie/Make a Movie

 

I chose the movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still” as my second movie that I watched.  As I have never seen this movie before I was on the edge of my seat waiting to see what happened.  The copy that I was …

Baby, baby, baby

I chose Children of Men as my second movie. This was about a world in which everyone is infertile, and no babies have been born in eighteen years. Britain is the only country that has a high standard of living, and immigration is greatly looked down upon. However, a woman …

The Ultimate Dramatic Scream Supercut

I’ve seen supercuts circulate on the Internet before (such as the famous No compilation) so I decided to try my hand at this assignment by creating a similar one that focused on emotional screaming.  In constructing this, I noticed a particular pattern.  Most of the screams are silent, or at …

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I decided to do the supercut assignment with a movie I like a lot, Akira. Two of the main characters, Tetsuo and Kaneda, call each other’s names a lot during the course of the movie, to the point that it’s become something of a joke amongst people who’ve seen …

Supercut

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 …

“Cut,” Print…Moving On

Having already earned eighteen stars in the form of my last four challenges, this last one does seem rather pointless in retrospect. Then again, both this and my mandatory assignment are all that’s left to do before Kyosuke’s birthday this Sunday, and the latter is also going to be the …

Vote Clay Davis

He’s a man of the people.  He’s also a man of few words.  Really.  VERY few words.  Here they are: Ha ha, loads of fun on this video assignment.  I hadn’t seen a supercut video before stumbling across this assignment and it was a lot of fun picking out scenes …

Supercut It

 

 

The instructions for this assignment were to create a montage of an overused or widely recognised trope or movie theme. Initially, I had wanted to do “love at first sight” and create a video montage of that one scene where one person looks at another one and they …

Supercut It: DS106 Video Assignment

This assignment asked that I “create a supercut montage of overused dialogue, themes, motifs, filmmaking techniques, etc. for a particular character, tv show, film, and/or public figure.”

The first thing I thought of was Obama’s repetition of “let me be clear,” but it turns out that TIME magazine and the …

Supercut Frasier

I was having a really difficult time thinking of a phrase or theme to super cut in one of my favorite shows, which is hilarious because as soon as I decided on this one it was relatively simple to find examples of Frasier screaming at his brother, Niles. This was …

Kick ass Women

Supercut It(5stars)

Assigment: 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 …

Michelle “You Got It Dude.”

Michelle Tanner had to be the cutest little thing on Full House. She had five lines she always will said…”You got it Dude.” “Aww nuts.” “You’re in big trouble mister.” “Oh please!” and “Duh.” which was perfect for the assignment … Continue reading →

SuperCut it!

This week I made a ‘supercut it‘ video featuring Agent Ziva from the television show NCIS.  Her character is originally from Israel and English is her second language.  She is constantly trying to use American idioms and butchering them.  I haven’t seen this show in ages but used …

Supercut it
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Motorcycle Race

I created this super thrilling super cut of motorcycle race from different movies. I included both Hollywood and Bollywood movie scenes. I chose to do a video of motorcycles is because I am just fascinated by them . I have always wanted to own and drive one!
To…

Movie Supercut It “Breaking Glass”

This class assignment was to create a short movie supercut about movies scenes which has a certain connection. It could be any connection such as a rain scene or slow motion scene or laughing. For my supercut I chose to use scenes where the actors/actresses smash through glass. Most movie…

JerseyShore Montage

Here are clips from jersey shore that show a repetitive theme. falling.

Lucky Number Three!

Title: Supercut It
Description: For this assignment I was asked to 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 basically a fast-paced montage of short video clips that obsessively isolates a single element from…

Screamy SuperCuts

Supercuts are a serious of clips which highlight a sertain aspect/clique/theme/line which is overused or just frequently implemented in a piece of media.

For my supercut I chose True Bloods Ginger. For those of you who have never seen True Blood, I watch it because I find it to be…

Supercut It! (5 stars)

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. For this assignment I had to create a supercut montage of overused dialogue, themes, motifs, filmmaking techniques, etc. for a particular…

Supercut It! Jim Carrey!

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…

Visual Assignment: Supercut It

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.…

Remember ScoobyDoo

Super Cut it!
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.…

Stuff Sheldon Says…

 
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…

Pretty Little Liars Supercut!

May or may not contain spoilers.
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…

Will Ferrell Supercut

Supercut It five stars
“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…

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Things Duckie Says

For this assignment, for 5 stars, I did a Supercut video featuring funny things Duckie from Pretty in Pink says. I used a video of Duckie Clips I found on Youtube, downloaded it, and then edited and cut it so that I could get it how I wanted. I focused …

Diego Ricardo

Well as you know we had to watch a movie form the list given to us that we did not watch from the previous week. And then pick a video assignment that relates to the movie.  I choose, Men of Children because I have watched the movie a couple of …

DS106 Assignment Tutorial – Supercut It

I made a tutorial for the DS106 video assignment titled “Supercut It,” which I did in iMovie on my Mac. I used screencast-o-matic to create the tutorial, and just went step by step through the process that I followed to create the original assignment for “Supercut It.”

The tutorial is …