Beat plan: Northwind Coffee
Thanks, that covers all five questions. Below is the beat plan. I won't build anything until you approve it.
The story: six beats, about 9.5 screens of scroll, one peak (beat 4).
| # | Beat | What the visitor sees | Words on screen | The one motion | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arrival | Morning window light on a wooden counter, with a kraft bag of beans, a ceramic cup and a few loose beans close to the lens. It's built from three planes: window and wall at the back, counter with bag and cup in the middle, loose beans as a foreground cut-out. | Fresh beans, every other Friday / Roasted in our Harbour Street cafe. | The three planes drift apart at different speeds, so the scene opens up in depth. | 2 screens |
| 2 | Why fresh matters | A close-up of a bag's blank roast-date label on Oat Linen. Beside it is a simple five-week line drawn in HTML. | Most beans taste best one to five weeks after roasting. / We print the roast date on every bag. | The one-to-five-week stretch of the line fills in with Kitchen Sage. | 1.5 screens |
| 3 | How it works | Four unlabelled bags in a row on linen. Their names are real text underneath. | Pick your beans. Every two weeks or every four. / House filter, single origin, espresso, decaf | The row of bags slides in as one layer, and the names settle once it stops. | 1.5 screens |
| 4 | PEAK | Tuesday is beans cooling in the roaster tray at the cafe. Friday is the same bag on a kitchen table beside a full cup, in morning light. | Roasted Tuesday. then In your cup by Friday. | The biggest move on the page: the Tuesday scene scales up and opens into the Friday scene. "Roasted Tuesday." appears once the cafe scene has settled, and "In your cup by Friday." once the kitchen has settled. | 2.5 screens, pinned |
| 5 | Price | A calm Pale Sage panel with no moving images. | From $15 a bag. / Delivery is $5, free over $40. | The text fades in. Nothing else moves. | 1 screen |
| 6 | Action | Filter Paper background with the button in Roast Brown. | Start my subscription / Skip or cancel any time from your account. | None. This beat isn't pinned. | 1 screen |
With reduced motion turned on, and on a phone, every beat still reads as a plain section in this order, with no pinning.
Copy trims. Each beat can hold at most twelve words, so I've shortened some lines. Tell me if any of these should stay word for word:
- Hero line: I took out "on Tuesday" and "At your door by Friday" so the peak is the first place the Tuesday-to-Friday promise appears. If you'd rather keep your full line in the hero, the peak will repeat it.
- Bean names: "Single origin of the month" becomes "single origin", and "espresso blend" becomes "espresso".
- Freshness: "So yours arrive at the start of that window" is gone, because the peak makes that point.
- Delivery choice: "Choose every two weeks or every four" now sits inside the beat 3 heading.
Next: once you approve the beats, I'll list every image you need to make. Each entry will give its job (back, middle or foreground cut-out), its size and a prompt in your photo style: soft window light from the left, muted warm tones, fine grain, two or three objects in a frame and no people. I'll keep the total under 3 MB.
Two questions:
- Shall I go ahead with these six beats?
- Are the copy trims okay, or does any line need to stay exactly as written?



