# Split-screen → mechanism → verdict — rebuild sheet

Episode 327 of a numbered review show: a host opens over someone else's clip, then spends the rest of the runtime at one desk putting a real gadget through its paces on camera — 5,525,844 views, 339,579 likes, 76.6s.

**Why it works**
The cold open is someone else's footage with the host's face inset above it, so the video starts inside a reaction the viewer wants settled — then the host cuts to himself holding the actual unit, which converts the reaction into a hands-on test. The show is named for its verdict and numbered into the 300s, so the viewer stays for a ruling they already know is coming and already trusts the host to deliver.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
|---|---|---|
| 6.13s | Stacked two-panel frame. Top strip: the host, glasses, black top, in a different room — red curtain and a bright window behind him — looking down at a phone. Bottom, larger panel: a sourced clip of another person outdoors under a wooden pavilion, yellow Chicago Bulls cap and white tee, holding a small dark object to their face. | none legible in either panel |
| 18.38s | Hard cut to the desk set — lavender-to-white gradient backdrop, white marble tabletop across the bottom third. Host medium-close, frame right, black hoodie with the show logo and TRASH OR GOLD across the chest, holding the open charging case up toward the lens. | none in this frame |
| 30.63s | Hand thrust toward the lens so the unit fills the foreground; his face sits behind it, mid-sentence. A second unit rests on the marble. | it's playing in English |
| 42.88s | Host holds the unit beside his mouth and talks at it, eyes to the lens. | do you wanna go to that |
| 55.14s | Host leans back with an open-mouth reaction, reaching across the marble where the parts are laid out — a single earbud and a red-cased phone beside the closed case. | hand the other person one earbud |
| 67.39s | Closer. Host holds the open case toward the lens, both earbuds visible inside it, other hand raised pointing at it. | but it plays music and translate |

Stated plainly: the six stills do not show a verdict card, an end screen, or any pinned title. The verdict lives in the caption — "KYD's Trash or Gold Episode 327" — not on screen in any sampled frame. The stills also can't tell you whether the camera moves between beats or whether there are cuts inside the desk section; the framing is consistent enough that a locked tripod is the safe read, but that is an inference, not evidence. Nothing in the frames says what the sourced opening clip is or who shot it.

**What carries the value**
The host's own hands on the real unit — the mechanism worked in front of the lens beat after beat: held out, talked into, split between two people, opened up — inside a numbered verdict franchise that promises a ruling is coming. Not the product's specs, and not the opening clip.

**Shoot it**
- **Camera:** one phone on a tripod at desk height, vertical, locked. Sit frame right so the near half of the table stays empty for the product to be pushed into. Do not move the camera at all — every beat is the same frame, and the only motion is the product coming toward the lens and going back.
- **The open:** film your reaction separately, in any other room, phone in hand, looking down at the clip. Stack it as a narrow strip above the sourced clip. Different room and different light from the desk set is a feature — it makes the cut to the desk feel like the show starting.
- **Light:** flat, soft, from the front — no shadow across the face, no window flare. The backdrop is a plain coloured gradient (lavender here) and the tabletop is plain white; both exist so the product reads instantly against them.
- **Wardrobe:** plain dark hoodie or tee carrying the show's own name. The wardrobe is the branding — there is no lower third, no logo bug, no title card in any frame.
- **Text:** burned-in captions of what he is actually saying, one short clause at a time, centred low, white with a thin outline. They change every beat. Nothing is ever pinned.
- **Talent:** this one does not run without an on-camera host. The persona and the episode number are the asset; a hands-only version loses the verdict.

**Or generate it**

```
vertical 9:16 photograph, {SUBJECT} seated at a white marble tabletop, medium-close
and frame right, plain lavender-to-white gradient backdrop behind them, wearing a
plain black hoodie, holding {PRODUCT} up toward the lens in one hand so it sits
large in the lower foreground while their face stays sharp behind it, other hand
raised pointing at it, even soft studio light from the front, mild colour cast from
the backdrop, clean creator-desk look, no on-screen text
```

Motion: camera locked at desk height and static — only the hands and the product move, pushed toward and pulled back from the lens as the mechanism is shown.

Text overlay: `"{spoken clause}"` — one short clause at a time, centred low, white with a thin dark outline, replaced on every beat, never pinned.

**Reference:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DVL8mCNDupo/ by kydyuzhini_realbackup
