I believe that a capstone is a culmination of everything you've learned while in your selected major. It is also a way to show potential employers skills that you can use out in the field or to impress your employers. It essentially gives employers a photograph of you and helps them determine whether they will want to call or email you for job interviews or not.
You need at least two semesters to create a capstone, because you will need time to brainstorm ideas and to find just the right idea as a medium to showcase your learned skills to faculty, employers, and other students. Planning out what project to do and what you use and how you create that project is probably the hardest part of the Capstone process. The reason you will need lots of time and the right idea is because employers may end up judging you based on your capstone performance and subject matter and media of the capstone.
The tools and what you choose to do may result in a sort of "typecasting". For example, if you do something similar to Ben Prout's "New Media Bathroom", employers might hire you for development of amusement park rides. If you do a graphic novel such as "Just Frank", you could be hired by the comic book industry. A demo reel of animation can get you hired by Disney. This cannot just be a great project you can knock out for a grade, because your future hinges on what you do and how it is received. Your capstone can open doors or it can close them entirely.
Also, you may need to test the project and make sure that it works properly before the deadline. If you experience ANY type of technical difficulty in your capstone, employers will frown upon you and it could be harmful to you and your future endeavors. So careful planning, production, and refinement is important for what may be the most important project in your academic career.
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