The second video in this collection, and three times as long as the first. Thirty seconds of an evening walk down an old Seoul lane, written as a timeline in six five-second beats, with no reference image.
All six beats landed, in order. Taking a frame from the middle of each five-second block gives the timeline back: fixing her bun at the door with the bag in hand; the sour face over a paper cup of fruit; crouched in the lane with a small dog sniffing her hand; the camera pushed in too close on her face; sitting on a low wall; walking off toward the end of the lane. Six numbered instructions, six blocks, no swaps. That’s the third time timecodes or numbered panels have held completely, after the five-shot clip and the nine-panel collage.
The numbers held too. The file runs 30.1 seconds and it’s 16:9, both as asked. It came back sharper than the 1080p it asked for, at 2560×1440.
Ignored, mostly: the early-2000s DV look. The prompt spends a whole paragraph on it — strong handheld shake, autofocus hunting, exposure shifts, faded colours, soft detail, noise. What came back is clean, modern footage with gentle handheld movement and warm evening light. The one DV habit that survived is the awkward push-in on her face in beat four, because that one is written into the timeline as an action and not as a style. Behaviour in a numbered beat landed. Behaviour in a style paragraph didn’t.
Holds: the same woman throughout, the soft-yellow sleeveless knit, light trousers, white retro sneakers, the dark-green shoulder bag, and a lane of low houses, plants, bicycles and wires with no brands or signs in sight. Varies from the text: the “reusable shopping bag” is a clear plastic bag of yellow fruit. There is an audio track, but I haven’t checked whether she actually says “Again?” and “Let’s go”.
