Silver Spring. Video Challenge.

Here is my video for the video challenge. I shot around downtown silver spring using a point and shoot camera. I used a song from jamendo.com. In the video, I interviewed my British neighbor named Greta. She is usually really loud, but she got shy when I turned on the camera, so her dad asked the questions.

Capture the Fall

For my Capture the Fall challenge, I filmed a park in Virginia last weekend. It was a great place to film because it was close to water and surrounded by trees. It really portrayed the beauties of fall For example, the leaves were all different colors. It was a beautiful view. In addition to the amazing view, it was a great day to film. The weather was an amazing fall afternoon, not too cold and not too hot.

I filmed this using my friend's DSLR camera, which was a great in comparison to the Iphone that I used to film my  last 5x5. The DSLR's shots were wayy better quality than the Iphone's. It really helped show nature's beauty.
For this project, I used 10 different shots:

1.  The first shot was the trees that I shot on a trail.This was a great show in my opinion because you can see all the different colors of fall. For example the leaves were brown,yellow and green.
2.  The second shot was of my friends running to a tire swing that we found on the trail.I included this one because it showed the joys of fall and I found the house behind it adorable.
3. The third shot is of them playing of the tire swing.
4. The fourth show is another shot of trees. The camera starts at the roots of the trees and moves up until it is pointed at the sky.
5. The fifth shot is more trees and the front of the adorable house that I spoke before quickly moving by. I shot this in the front passenger seat of my car, I held it right out of the window as my mom drove out of the park.
6. The sixth shot was zoomed in on the leaves. In the middle of the shot, you can see my friend come in the shot to play with the leaves
7. The seventh shot is a shot of the water surronded by trees. The view is absolutly amazing! Than the camera zooms in on the leaves on the tree.I included the second part because I loved the way the sun is seen through the leaves
8. The eighth shot is another shot of the nature trail. You can see people enjoying the fall weather.
9. The ninth shot is really short, but I wanted to include it because I loved the lighting and the water in the background that is barely seen, but creates a nice view.
10.  The final shot is of my friends walking away on the trail

The hardest part of this project was finding good music to put in the backround. It really wanted it to signify the joys of fall weather. I used a creative commons website, www. jamendo.com, and I settled on the song "Built to Last" by Fall Walk Run. It's upbeat, but not too crazy.
I used Wevideo to edit my video.It wasn't too hard this time because I used it to edit my 5x5. However, it took me a while to figure out how to upload the song, but finally I figured it out.

I hope this video captured the fall!

5x5

 5x5
I filmed my 5x5 at the Sligo Creek Trail.
The clips are..
1) Sligo Creek itself
2) A man riding his bike
3)A squirrel in the tree
4) Two people playing tennis
5) A girl playing in the creek.

I filmed the clips on an iPhone. I filmed 6 or 7 clips of about 10 seconds, the cut it down to 5 clips of 5 seconds. I used the web-based video editor, Wevideo. After I got a hang of it, it was not too hard, but the hardest part was figuring out how to use the editing software.

I am pleased about my 5x5 because it was my first one, but next time I will deifantly use a actual camera to film.

For our next independent video challenge, I feel like we should be able to add music because that would make the project more challenging, but more enjoyable.