Nightly's dark launch film, 7 scenes at 88 BPM

What happens in this clip

Nightly is a note-taking app, and its film opens on a title scene: the kicker “Meet”, the name “Nightly” and the line “Notes for the hours after dark”. The problem scene has two lines, “11:48 pm. Still writing.” and “The screen is still white.”, and five chips, including “Battery low: 9%”, “Night Shift is on” and “Brightness at 100%”.

Three product scenes follow. Dark mode, “Dark mode, done right”, starts on a light editor screen and changes to a dark one, with the callout “Every colour re-tuned”. Schedule, “It switches at sunset”, shows the appearance settings and calls out “Dark at 19:42 tonight”. Mobile, “Matches your phone”, uses a phone frame and calls out “True black on OLED”.

A features scene, “Also in 3.0”, lists four items: per-notebook themes, reading mode, a one-key switch and dark PDF export. The end card reads “Out now” and “Nightly 3.0 for Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android.”, above nightly.example and v3.0.

Compared with Lantern

Lantern, the other film from this skill, is set to the same tempo, 88, but is a different story. Nightly’s problem is a screen that stays white late at night; Lantern’s is a slow checkout at 3:12 am. Nightly has three product scenes (dark mode, schedule, mobile) and Lantern has four (traces, incidents, service map, on call). Nightly’s features scene lists four items and Lantern’s lists six. Nightly’s brief sets no colours of its own, and Lantern’s sets a ground of #0d0f1c, ink #f3f1ea and an amber accent, #f5b84a.

How the film is built

In order, the film is a title scene, a problem scene, three product scenes that each carry a callout, a four-item features scene and an end card with a web address and version number. The first product scene uses an after screen, so it shows a before and after of the same view.