Capture the Fall

This week I made my Capture the Fall video for media class. I used a flip camera to film it.

Here's a list of my shots:
1. colorful trees
2. my brother riding his bike
3. my mom walking our dog
4. a lawn display
5. a leaf pile along the street
6. fallen leaves
7. a spring with leaves in it at a park
8. my brother swinging
9. a tiny stream at the park
10. my brother walking
11. my brother throwing pine needles
12. a pretty sidewalk chalk drawing
13. more fallen leaves

Unlike some of the videos that I've seen for this project, my video doesn't tell a story or have any overarching theme besides fall. The clips that I used were things that I associate with fall in general. My favorite clip is the one of my brother throwing pine needles into the air. It looks staged, but it's actually not. It's just the type of thing that my brother does. I brought the camera to the park with me to film and  looked over at my brother and that's what he was doing.

There are a couple things that I didn't put into my Capture the Fall project that I wish that I could have. For me, fall is strongly associated with waking up and coming homes from school when it's dark. Unfortunately I kept forgetting to take my camera with  my to school, so I never got that footage.

One of the biggest challenges I faced when making this video was using the editing software, WeVideo. This is only the second video that I've ever edited so I still don't really know what I'm doing. I don't own any editing software so I had to use a free online software, WeVideo. WeVideo proved to be very glitchy. Some  of the clips would freeze as I tried to edit them so that when I tried to watch it in the editor, it would go through a couple clips and then freeze. In addition, the editor wouldn't play the transitions that I inserted between clips. Although the transitions wound up working when the video was exported to YouTube, I could only hope that they worked right because WeVideo would just skip over them.