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A film by Will Mosley, 2019. All the films
Film · Good Time · 2019
A movie, a coffee. A good time.
A spontaneous afternoon with Stoven: a daytime movie, a coffee run, and a night out downtown. Will calls it a reminder that leading well also means knowing when to enjoy the moment. Shot and cut by Will into 10 minutes, with the city seen from straight above.
- 10:00running time, published on YouTube December 23, 2019
- 136shots, counted by scene detection on the film file
- 2.1sthe median shot, a steady walking pace
- 51sthe longest take, at 5:11: walking downtown behind Stoven as the lights come on
01 · The span
Grey afternoon to a red room.
The day goes from flat winter light to the glow of a night out. Nine frames in film order, grouped by the hour, with the film timecode under each.
Afternoon
0:08
1:20
1:36
Coffee
3:16
3:22
3:41
Night
5:02
6:03
6:52
02 · From above
The city, straight down.
Between the scenes the camera goes up and looks straight down. Rooftops, crosswalks and parked cars turn into a pattern, and the film uses them like chapter breaks.
The moving frame at the top of the page is a rooftop at 1:52. It plays without sound; the film itself is below.
03 · Stylish by night
He started out cold. He ended stylish.
That is how Will sums up Stoven at the end of the film. By night he is in a pale suit, on an old phone, then leaning over a pool table in a red lit room.
Frames at 6:44 and 8:04.
04 · The cut
136 shots in ten minutes.
Every bar below is one shot, as wide as it runs on screen. The rhythm is a walk: steady short shots, with a few long ones where the night is left to play out.
Each bar is one shot, in film order
Counted with scene detection (ffmpeg, a cut wherever the scene score is over 0.35) on the film file: 136 shots, median 2.1 seconds. Will’s own shot sheets for the film, which merge the shortest flashes, list 130.
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Next film: Jacob Graduates →CreditA film by Will Mosley, who shot and edited it. Stoven appears as himself. Published on Will’s channel in 2019 as E1: Good Time. Stills are cropped to the picture; on screen text from the original upload is left out.