# Captioned steps, comment gate — rebuild sheet

A 48s two-hander shot in one herbal-apothecary room: a routine is talked through in running subtitles, the finished drink is held to the lens, and the last beat holds a book up behind a one-word comment gate. 729,404 views · 15,235 likes · @hua_jin123.

**Why it works.** The whole remedy is handed over on camera — ingredients out on the counter, the finished drink raised into frame — so by the time the book appears the viewer has already been given something, and the gate reads as *more* rather than a toll. Nothing moves for the middle of the runtime, so the only thing advancing is the subtitle sentence, which never lands a full stop until the gate.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
|---|---|---|
| 3.87s | Two-shot behind a stone counter, wall of labelled glass herb jars and a framed calligraphy scroll behind. Older woman at left holds a small dark dropper bottle; younger woman at right. The lower third of the frame is a **pasted-in still** of a bare torso with a piece of ginger root at the bottom edge — a composited proof image, not part of the room. | people will start asking if you got plastic surgery |
| 11.6s | Same room, same counter. Both women behind it, younger one gesturing down at the surface. On the counter: a jar of amber liquid, a glass mug of cloudy yellow liquid, a small bowl of pale powder, a bowl of dried red berries. | drink this every morning for seven days |
| 19.33s | Same camera position, but the older woman has moved into the foreground and fills the frame, holding the glass mug up toward the lens with both hands. Younger woman stands behind at frame left. | and your body starts feeling lighter |
| 27.06s | Identical framing held. Older woman speaking to the lens, mug still raised, free hand open in a gesture. | a lot of aging starts inside the body |
| 34.79s | Identical framing again, mug raised higher and closer so the liquid fills the centre of frame. | and the results show up on the outside |
| 42.52s | Back to the two-shot. Older woman holds a small brown book to the lens, cover reading ANCIENT REMEDY BIBLE; younger woman holds the bowl of red berries, her other arm reaching toward the camera. | comment book |

Also on screen at every beat: a small `genaicontent` watermark, top left. The post is tagged `#syntheticperformer #ad` — this video was generated, not filmed.

**What the frames do not show.** Six stills across 48 seconds only sample the sentence, so I can't tell you whether the ingredients were actually named and dosed on camera between beats — the counter shows honey, a powder, red berries and ginger, but no amount appears in any sampled caption. The library format calls for the recipe given away in full; here I can confirm the giveaway *staging* but not the dosing. I also can't tell whether the camera cut between beats 2 and 3 or the subject simply walked forward — the room, angle and height are unchanged, so it reads as one locked setup either way. Nothing about audio, music or voice is readable from stills.

**What carries the value.** The giveaway. The remedy is visibly handed over — ingredients on the counter, the finished drink held into the lens — so the book at the end is an addition to something free, not a paywall in front of it. The claim stack does the wanting ("plastic surgery" → "lighter" → "shows up on the outside"); the gate is one word.

**Shoot it**

- **Camera.** One phone on a tripod at counter height, square-on, locked. It does not move, pan or push at any point. Every beat is the same setup — the subject steps forward into the frame rather than the camera coming to them.
- **Room.** One surface with a visibly specialised wall behind it: shelves of matching labelled jars, one framed piece on the wall. The wall is the whole credential — it must be built once and never redressed, because it has to be identical in every beat.
- **Light.** Window daylight from behind and beside the subject, no lamps, no fill, flat and even. Foliage visible through the window sells the daylight.
- **Wardrobe.** Plain, uniform-looking, no pattern, no jewellery, no logo. Both people in the same style of top in different colours so they read as one practice. Nothing on camera should look styled for a shoot.
- **Props.** Everything the routine uses laid out on the counter from beat two onward, in plain glass and plain bowls, and left there. The finished result gets held up into the lens with both hands.
- **Text.** Burn the spoken track in as subtitles, one clause per cut, lower-centre, lowercase, white with a soft shadow. The sentence must run across cuts — no clause ends on a full stop until the gate.
- **The close.** The physical thing (book, guide, whatever is being gated) held flat to the lens with the cover readable, and the caption drops to the single instruction: `comment {one word}`. The word must be short enough that people type it without thinking. Put the follow-first condition in the post caption, not on screen.

**Or generate it**

The single most important beat is the middle unit — the fixed frame with the result held to the lens — because it is three of the six beats and it is what the subtitle sentence plays over.

```
vertical 9:16, fixed frame, {SUBJECT} standing behind a pale stone counter in a
traditional herbal-apothecary room, shelves of labelled glass jars of dried herbs
filling the wall behind them and a framed calligraphy scroll top right, a window
with green foliage outside at frame left; {SUBJECT} in a plain mandarin-collar top,
no jewellery, holding {PRODUCT} raised toward the lens with both hands so it sits
in the centre of frame; soft daylight from the window, flat even exposure,
phone-camera look, slight grain, no retouching, no on-screen text
```

**Motion.** Camera fixed at counter height for the whole beat — no push, no pan, no reframe; only {SUBJECT}'s hands and mouth move as {PRODUCT} is raised toward the lens and held there.

**Text overlay pattern.** Running speech subtitles, one clause per beat, lower-centre, white with a soft shadow, lowercase, the sentence carrying across cuts:

`{what people will say about you}` → `{use this every {interval} for {duration}}` → `{the first thing you feel}` → `{the mechanism, stated as a fact about the body}` → `{where the result shows}` → `comment {one word}`

Generate every beat from the same seed so the shelves, the scroll and the window match exactly — the room being provably identical is what makes the locked frame read as one continuous take.

**Reference:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Db8QXbqS5Tq/
