# Subtitled monologue with evidence cutaways — rebuild sheet

A 71-second piece to camera: a gloved presenter in a clinic room talks straight at the lens under a running subtitle, twice cut away to full-frame lab-grade imagery. 23,479 views · 251 likes · @dr.rafaelvega.

**Why it works** — The subtitle is cut off mid-sentence at every single beat, so there is never a clean place to leave; the viewer stays to finish a sentence, not to see a result. The costume (white shirt, glasses, blue exam gloves, sanitiser dispenser in shot) and the two borrowed renders supply all the authority, so nothing has to be demonstrated on camera.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 5.68s | Presenter chest-up in a small clinic room — white button-down, glasses, blue nitrile gloves. Sanitiser dispenser over one shoulder, daylight window and a tissue box over the other. He holds two flesh-toned anatomical models up, one on each gloved palm, level with the lens. | Listen *carefully* |
| 17.04s | Full-frame cutaway, no presenter: extreme macro of translucent braided fibres packed with amber-brown crystalline deposits, on black. | them |
| 28.40s | Back to the identical presenter frame, mid-speech, a small handheld mic raised toward his mouth in a gloved hand. | and you don't |
| 39.76s | The same frame again, unchanged — presenter speaking, mic up. Nothing in the room or the framing has moved. | metformin, without |
| 51.12s | Full-frame dark cutaway: a glowing blue-white rendered cell membrane across the upper half, cinnamon sticks and ground cinnamon on a dark surface below. | cinnamon, |
| 62.48s | The identical presenter frame to close — speaking, mic raised, gloves on. | the message. |

Two honest gaps: these are six stills from a 71-second video, so the fragments above are samples of a continuous subtitle track, not a whole sentence — the words between them are not visible in the frames. And the frames cannot tell you whether the cutaways are 3D renders or sourced macro footage, or whether the camera drifts at all inside a beat; across the four presenter beats the framing is identical.

**What carries the value** — The unfinished sentence. Every beat is a fragment cut mid-clause, and each one hands off either to the clinical costume or to a piece of borrowed lab imagery. Authority plus an open loop, with nothing demonstrated and no product in hand.

**Shoot it** — One camera, fixed, chest height, roughly an arm's length away; set it once and never move it, so all four talking beats match exactly. Shoot side-on to a window with no lights of your own — plain daylight, the room left as it is, its real fixtures visible behind the shoulders. Wardrobe is the credential: a plain white button-down with rolled sleeves, and gloves worn for the whole take. Hold a small mic up in one gloved hand; it reads as recording rather than performing. Talk continuously and subtitle every word — the caption must break mid-sentence at each cut, never on a full stop. Drop in two full-frame evidence visuals over the running caption; the presenter leaves the screen entirely for those, and the caption is the only thing joining them.

**Or generate it** — the opening beat, the one that has to land:

```
vertical 9:16 photograph, {SUBJECT} in a white button-down shirt with the sleeves
rolled, glasses, blue nitrile examination gloves, seated close to a fixed camera at
chest height in a small clinic consultation room — a wall-mounted sanitiser dispenser
behind one shoulder, a daylight window with a tissue box and small boxes on the sill
behind the other — holding {PRODUCT} up on both gloved palms level with the lens,
daylight only, plain phone-camera look, slight grain, no retouching, no on-screen text
```

Motion: camera fixed at chest height for the whole beat, no push, pan or reframe — only the gloved hands lift {PRODUCT} into frame and hold it level with the lens. Generate every presenter beat from the same seed so the room and framing match.

Text overlay: one speech fragment per beat, lower-centre, thin white serif with no background box, each one cut off mid-sentence and never completing — `"{fragment}"` → `"{fragment}"` → `"{fragment}"`. The opening fragment is set larger with its second word in italic script: `Listen {carefully}`.

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