This assignment is called, “Do the Hitch Cut”. It is worth 4 stars and is video assignment 732. The description was:

“Alfred Hitchcock, the legendary master of suspense, shares a brief 90-second lesson on how a simple change in a three-shot edit can result in evoking a completely different response from the viewing audience. Can you do the Hitch Cut? Make two versions of a short three-shot video — in each instance maintaining the first and third shots, but changing out the second shot in each. Can you get a completely different result from your viewer? “

After watching “Hitchcock loves bikinis” I really wanted to try it out! I was incredibly excited when I saw that it was an assignment option! Now I just had to brainstorm on how to do it…

After brainstorming, I decided to use  “The Pregnancy Pact” to create my “hitch cut.” In the movie, a group of teenage  girls (I believe they were all 15)  make a pact to all get pregnant. It is a Lifetime movie based on a true story. I decided to try and make my video an awareness video as well because teen pregnancy really has become an issue and it is not as glamorous as the movies make it seem.

After finding the original clip, I cut out the clip that I wanted to use as well as the piece I was going to replace the old clip with. I made two copies of the original clip and then cut the middle out of one and replaced it with another clip. She went from being sad that she was not  pregnant to sad that she was pregnant. At the end I added, “Teen pregnancy is 100% preventable” I use to watch “The Secret Life of the American Teenager” and the characters always said that during commercial breaks. I hope you like my video, THANKS!