This is my capture that fall project that I made for CAP News. Though films are always fun to create I found this one to be especially fun because of the freedom we had in both shooting and editing the shots. I was fortunate enough to visit some friends up in Pennsylvania last weekend and got some really great shots of the spectacular landscape. We go up to Pennsylvania every year to pick out our Christmas tree and this year my sister and me got to pick out the tree. There were also shots of some urban areas that included Down Town Silver Spring, My house, and DC. I wanted to include a variety of shots with multiple settings to better capture the fall mood. I edited this video in Final Cut Pro X and did all the color corrections with Magic Bullet Looks. This was a slightly tedious process and putting all the clips together to match the music was difficult. Also going in and color correcting each shot to make it seem more professional took a long time. I am probably most proud of the last shot which is a sliding shot of my porch rail with the words Capturing Fall edited onto the railing as if the camera was really passing over it. I actually edited this part in Motion 5 and used the Match Move effect to make it appear like the text was part of the railing. I thought it looked decent but next time I hope to use cinema 4d to make more realistic looking text. You will notice that I only have a few transitions between my clips and this is very much on purpose. When syncing the video and audio, it is hard to make it look good if the shots fade into each other. I wanted to keep shots changing with the beat and believe that this created a more professional look overall. I did use a few transitions, which are pretty hard to notice. I think the best one was of the elevator in Down Town Silver Spring which transition into the ice-skating rink without changing the downward motion. Overall this project has been really fun and I hope we get the same freedom for creativity in other projects to come.
