# Filth-extraction montage — rebuild sheet

A 48-second hands-only tabletop demo of a sticky-tipped ear cleaner: three era cards run the old tools, then the tip is proved on an ear model, on loose particles and in a bowl of seeds, then rinsed in water — 884,199 views, 14,660 likes, by beautime.official.gb.

**Why it works**

The persuasion is a tip that visibly picks things up, and it is repeated on three unrelated substrates so the viewer stops judging one use and starts judging the tool. The era cards at the front ("Back then… → Then… → Now it's 2026…") get the viewer to agree the old ways were bad before the product is ever shown, then the text disappears entirely so nothing competes with the proof.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
|---|---|---|
| 3.87s | Close on a table, hands only. Left hand holds a flesh-toned silicone ear model; right hand works a thin metal spiral ear pick into the canal. Blurred styled shelf behind — green and blue glass bottles, white daisies in a white vase. | Back then... |
| 11.61s | Same framing. Hands hold a clear plastic tube applicator with a pale rolled tip up to camera; two more ear models on the table behind. | Then... |
| 19.36s | Same framing. The white sticky-tipped swab goes into the ear model's canal and a clump of yellow-brown material comes away on the tip. The hero pull. | Now it's 2026... |
| 27.1s | Tighter, more top-down. An open bare palm fills frame; the swab is held across it with small dark particles stuck to the tip. | — |
| 34.84s | Back to the tabletop. A patterned ceramic bowl heaped with black rice and seeds; the swab tip is lowered into it. | — |
| 42.58s | Same tabletop, a cut-glass tumbler of clear water; the swab is brought down into the water. | — |

Stated plainly: the six stills are the only evidence. They do not show whether there is a voiceover or music, whether any text appears between the sampled beats, or whether the camera drifts inside a beat. The last frame shows the swab going into the water, not coming out clean — the "rinses clean" claim comes from the poster's own caption, not from the frames. The ear is a silicone model (two spares sit on the table as props), so the material coming out of it was placed there, not produced by a person.

**What carries the value**

The sticky tip picking things up on camera. Not a claim, not a before/after — a clump lifted out of the ear model, then the same tip proved on loose particles and a bowl of seeds, then dropped in water. Repetition on unrelated substrates is the whole argument.

**Shoot it**

- **Camera.** Phone on a small tripod at tabletop height, framed tight on the hands. Do not move it — the same framing holds for five of the six beats, and only the palm shot tips more top-down. Cut on each new substrate.
- **Set.** A grey linen cloth on the table. A styled shelf about a metre behind — glass bottles, flowers in a plain vase — thrown fully out of focus. Nothing on the table but the thing being cleaned and the current prop.
- **Light.** Soft, even, frontal, no hard shadows. A window or one softbox is enough.
- **Wardrobe.** Bare hands and forearms, no jewellery, no watch. No face and no voice needed — nothing in the frames requires a person on camera.
- **Props to plan.** The old-way tool, the interim tool, the product, one substrate that shows pick-up against a light background (a palm), one substrate that shows pick-up in bulk (a bowl of loose grain), one glass of clear water. Get the material onto the demo surface before rolling — it is placed either way, so place it convincingly.
- **The order matters.** Two beats of old tools, one beat of the product doing the same job with visible pick-up, then three wordless proof beats. Text stops the moment the proof starts.

**Or generate it**

The hero pull at 19.36s is the beat worth generating:

```
vertical 9:16 close tabletop photograph, hands only and no face, left hand
holding {SUBJECT} steady in the centre of frame while the right hand feeds
{PRODUCT} into it, visible debris coming away on the tip, bare forearms and no
jewellery, grey linen tablecloth, a styled shelf about a metre behind thrown
fully out of focus — green and blue glass bottles, white daisies in a white
ceramic vase — soft even frontal daylight with no hard shadows, shallow depth
of field, phone-camera look, no on-screen text
```

**Motion:** camera fixed on a low tripod at tabletop height, no move and no reframe; only the hands and the debris move.

**Text overlay:** three cards on the first three beats only, white bold, upper third, same position each time — `Back then...` → `Then...` → `Now it's {YEAR}...` — then no text at all for the rest of the runtime.

**Reference:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Db3sASKiU2a/
