Challenge 1: Why Only a Light Correction Pass, No Grade — Solution Walkthrough

Why Step 6 stops at correction:

Per Chapter 6's own material, color correction fixes technical
problems — exposure, white balance, matching shots to look consistent
— while color grading is a creative, stylistic choice establishing a
mood or look on top of already-corrected footage. This capstone's own
footage is screen and webcam content from a tutorial, not cinematic
material trying to establish any particular emotional tone or visual
style.

Why a creative grade genuinely isn't needed here:

A tutorial's own actual goal is clear, accurate communication of
information — the webcam and screen capture simply need to look
correct and consistent, not stylized. Applying a creative grade would
add a stylistic choice this specific content has no real use for,
since there's no mood or narrative tone being established the way
there would be in cinematic or narrative footage.

Why this is an honest scope decision, not a shortcut:

This capstone explicitly frames this as "an honest scope match" — the
decision to skip grading here isn't a corner being cut; it's applying
Chapter 6's own correction-vs-grading distinction correctly to content
that genuinely only needs the correction half of that distinction, not
both.

WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER
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This exercise checks that Chapter 6's own correction-vs-grading
distinction is correctly applied to justify a specific capstone
decision, rather than assuming every project needs both steps
regardless of content type.