# Word-per-beat internal reveal — rebuild sheet

A 26-second herbal tea recipe told in one-word captions — four macro shots of ingredients going into a pot, then two rendered shots of the effect happening inside a body. 1,617,932 views · 39,529 likes · @herbal_healing_path.

**Why it works**
Only one word is ever on screen, so the sentence is always mid-air and there is no clean place to leave — the caption is the retention device, not the recipe. Then the payoff is an interior view no camera could take: the glowing gut inside the glass and the body lighting up, which turns four shots of lemon and cloves into something you can see working inside you.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
|---|---|---|
| 2.12s | Lidded glass jar on a counter, lemon slices and cloves swirled into a tunnel of golden liquid. Ceiling downlight, blurred warm kitchen. No hands. | TOGETHER |
| 6.36s | Hand drops whole cloves into a clear glass pan of hard-boiling water on a burner. Steam, warm bokeh behind. | OF |
| 10.6s | Hand sprinkles a golden-orange powder into the same pan, now holding lemon rounds, a cinnamon stick and cloves. | OF |
| 14.83s | Golden tea poured from a glass vessel into a clear glass mug on granite. Steam, condensation, lemon slice in the cup. | WARM |
| 19.07s | Hard turn to CG — a glowing large intestine suspended inside a glass of the golden liquid, particles rising around it. | FLATULENCE |
| 23.31s | CG payoff — a glowing human figure riding a column of fire up through the roof of a house, debris flying. | WHOLE |

Read honestly: the six sampled words do **not** make a sentence. They are single words pulled from a continuous spoken narration, one word on screen at a time — so what you copy is the behaviour (one word, replaced constantly, never a phrase), not these six words. The powder at 10.6s is never named or labelled anywhere in frame; it looks like turmeric but the video does not say so. The blurred shape behind the mug at 14.83s reads as a US flag but is too out of focus to confirm. Nothing in the six frames names a product, shows a face, or shows a brand.

**What carries the value**
The glow going inside. Four beats of ingredients dropped into water sell nothing on their own — the two rendered interior shots are the whole payload, and the second one (the body igniting) is the emotional close the first one (the gut) earns.

**Shoot it**
Beats 1–4 are shootable on a phone; beats 5 and 6 are not, and there is no honest way to fake them with a camera. For the four you can shoot:
- **Camera:** one new close setup per beat, handheld or on a small tripod, no move inside a shot. Never the same framing twice — the format wants a fresh macro each cut. Vertical, close enough that the vessel fills the frame.
- **Light:** one warm source from the side, everything behind it thrown well out of focus. Backlight the steam so it reads. Every frame in this video is warm gold; nothing is cool or clean.
- **Wardrobe / cast:** none. Hands only, no sleeves in frame, no face at any point, no talent to book.
- **Kit:** clear glassware throughout — a glass pan on the hob, a lidded glass jar, a clear glass mug. The whole trick is that you can see into everything.
- Whether the source video moved its camera inside these shots cannot be read from stills, so shoot them locked and let the pour and the steam supply the motion.

**Or generate it**
The single most important beat is 19.07s — the glowing organ in the glass. Leave `{PRODUCT}` and `{SUBJECT}` as placeholders:

```
vertical 9:16 photoreal CG render, close on a clear glass tumbler of hot golden {PRODUCT}
filling the frame, and suspended inside the liquid a photoreal anatomical model of
{SUBJECT}'s large intestine rendered in luminous amber-white and glowing from within, its
coils lit brightest at the edges; fine golden particles and bubbles drifting upward through
the liquid around it, warm caustics and refraction across the glass, near-black falloff at
the frame edges with no room, no hands and no label visible, cinematic render, shallow
depth of field, no on-screen text
```

**Motion:** camera drifts in very slowly on the glass while the glowing organ turns a few degrees and the golden particles rise around it — nothing else in frame moves.

**Text overlay:** one bold white all-caps word per beat, centred low with a hard dark drop shadow, only ever one word on screen. Cut the narration into single words — `{ONE SPOKEN WORD}` replaced on every word — never a phrase, never a pinned line.

**Reference:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DbQyKCCNwMQ/
