# Pinned line, borrowed intercut

**10,513,050 views proved it** · 2 of Damon's swipes use this format

## What it is

One caption stays word-for-word identical across every beat while the picture alternates between the poster's own shot and footage from a visibly different second source. The maker's own frame is deliberately plain; the borrowed frames do all the punching, and the last third often lives entirely in the borrowed source.

## Why it works

The unchanging line is the constant that makes two unrelated sources read as one argument. Because the poster's own shot is flat by design, every cut to the borrowed source lands as an escalation without the poster having to perform anything.

## The beats, in order

1. the identical line lands over the poster's own full-frame shot
2. cut to the second source — letterboxed or plainly different — same line
3. back to the poster's own shot, still flat, same line
4. cut back to the second source, which now carries the punch
5. the last stretch stays in the borrowed source under the unchanged line

## On-screen text

one caption, usually two lines ending on an open colon, word-for-word identical in the same position at every single beat; never completed, never escalated

## Camera

two visibly different sources alternating — the poster's own plain full-frame shot against letterboxed or differently-graded borrowed footage; a cross-dissolve at the seam is common

## Higgsfield — image prompt

```
vertical 9:16, source A: {poster's own subject described exactly} in {plain real location}, full-frame, phone-camera look, no on-screen text · source B: {second subject described exactly} in {visibly different location}, letterboxed, {different grade or light}, no on-screen text
```

## Higgsfield — motion

```
alternate the two sources beat to beat with no attempt to match them; keep source A static and plain, let source B carry every movement
```

## Produce it

Paste those into the Higgsfield employee: https://higgsfield.ai/supercomputer/skills?employeeId=0d38d619-0ac2-45c9-bfd5-3371837ccad3

## The references in this folder

- **@thabiso_wavyy** — 10,513,050 views — https://www.instagram.com/p/DbQxX32scg5/
- **@biggerpicturemont** — 6,912,022 views — https://www.instagram.com/p/DXiQWC-jNcV/

Each `.md` beside this file is one reference torn down: its beats with
timestamps, what carries the value, how to shoot it, and its own prompts.
`frames/` holds the six beats of each as one picture.
