# Wordless POV procedure — rebuild sheet

A tool passes over a seated guy's untouched afro in a friend's living room and leaves finished cornrows behind it, in one unbroken textless take — 3,203,876 views, 31,395 likes, 10.24s, by thefamousdaveyt.

**Why it works**
The before-state and the after-state are on screen at the same time, in the same shot: raw hair behind the tool, finished hair in front of it, so there is no cut where a trick could hide and the viewer keeps watching to see the line move. Nothing is written and nothing is held up to camera — the only claim is the head itself, and the subject's reaction at the end just confirms what the frames already showed.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
|---|---|---|
| 0.82s | Close handheld, three-quarter front at head height. Subject seated in a cream barber cape and white tee; operator behind him presses a rose-gold handheld tool with a lit orange bar into the front of an untouched afro. Living room: blinded windows, lit tripod lamp, a friend on the couch with a game controller. | none |
| 2.46s | Tool flat on the front of the head (its shell reads "AG23"). The section it crossed is already sharp cornrows with a clean lineup; the afro still bulges behind it. Subject deadpan. | none |
| 4.1s | The hero frame. Camera drifted slightly wider; tool mid-pass over the crown, orange glow under its comb face, braids laid down in its wake and raw afro still visible behind — the half-and-half head in one shot. | none |
| 5.73s | Tool further back over the ear, nearly the whole head finished. Two more friends now visible on the couch. | none |
| 7.37s | Tool lifted away at frame left, bar still glowing. A hand comes in from the right and presses the finished hairline. Subject's eyes go wide, mouth open — the reaction. | none |
| 9.01s | Camera pulls back into the room. Subject grinning, full head of cornrows; a friend at frame right leaning in laughing, another on the couch with a snack. | none |

**What carries the value**
The half-and-half head inside one unbroken shot — untouched hair behind the tool, finished hair in its wake. The reaction beat and the friends in the room are the sign-off, not the proof.

Where the frames do not show something, plainly:
- **No overlays anywhere.** The only lettering in the video is "AG23" printed on the tool itself. The claim lives entirely in the caption.
- **Audio is unknown.** The caption says "Let's talk about it", so there may be a voiceover or live dialogue — six stills cannot tell you. Nobody is framed as a talking head in any sampled frame.
- **Cuts are unproven.** Continuous framing, matching light and a steadily advancing braid line say one take, but only six moments were sampled; there could be hidden cuts between them.
- **No product beat.** The tool is never held up to camera, no box, no label shot, no price. The video ends on the person, not the object.
- **How the effect is achieved is not shown** and cannot be read off the frames.

**Shoot it**
- **Camera:** phone, vertical, handheld, close, at the seated subject's head height and slightly off to one side so the operator's hands and the subject's face are both in frame. Drift back along the head with the tool — reframe with the work, never zoom, never cut.
- **Both states in frame.** Every shot has to hold the untouched side and the finished side at once. That single rule is the format.
- **Light:** ordinary warm indoor light — a corner lamp and window blinds behind. No lighting kit, no colour, nothing that looks lit.
- **Room:** a real front room with friends actually in it doing something (a controller, a snack). They are set dressing until the last beat, where they become the reaction.
- **Wardrobe:** subject in a plain white tee under a cream cape; operator in a plain grey hoodie, face mostly out of frame. Nobody dressed to be seen.
- **Performance:** the subject stays deadpan the whole way through and only reacts once, at the end, when a hand touches the finished hairline. The flat middle is what makes the reaction land.
- **Casting is required.** You need a real subject and a real before/after on a body — this cannot be shot hands-only on a table, and it needs someone whose transformation you can capture. No lines and no on-camera personality are needed.

**Or generate it**
The hero beat is 4.1s — the tool mid-pass with both hair states in frame.

```
vertical 9:16 photograph, close handheld three-quarter view at head height of {SUBJECT} seated in a cream barber cape over a white tee, an operator standing behind in a plain grey hoodie holding {PRODUCT} pressed flat against the top of the head mid-pass, the hair behind the tool still in its untouched before-state and the hair the tool has already crossed finished and neat, real suburban living room behind — blinded windows, a lit tripod lamp in the corner, a leather couch with people sitting on it — warm indoor lamp light, phone-camera look, slight grain, no retouching, no on-screen text
```

**Motion:** handheld and close, drifting slowly back along the head to stay with the tool as it passes, reframing with the work — no cuts, no zoom, the untouched and finished halves both held in frame.

**Text overlay:** none. The source runs textless for the full 10.24s; the claim goes in the caption instead — "Watch as this new {TECHNOLOGY} instantly gives {RESULT}! This {CATEGORY} technology is insane! Let's talk about it."

**Reference:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Db8cjdXRqpV/
