# Stunt funnel reveal — rebuild sheet

A woman does a full face-cleansing routine at the table in a fine-dining restaurant while the diners around her stare, then the video cuts to the product and to the same routine done properly at home. 20.27s · 6,418,514 views · 40,918 likes · @donna1466yd.

**Why it works**

The routine is performed in the one room it does not belong in, so the strangers around her become an on-camera audience whose reactions do the persuading — the change is witnessed, not claimed. Once the stunt has bought the attention, the video funnels straight down: pack held to lens, routine repeated in a normal room, skin close-up, no argument attempted.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
|---|---|---|
| 1.62s | Seated at a formal dinner table, diners and waiters behind. She presses a yellow round pad to her forehead and turns to camera, mouth open. The man beside her keeps eating. | none |
| 4.86s | Standing now. Lower face covered in white lather, wiping it off with the white cloth napkin. Four or five diners behind have stopped and are staring at her. | none |
| 8.11s | Tight on her face leaning into the lens, grinning, napkin at her chest. Skin reads clean and lit. Diners behind are open-mouthed. | none |
| 11.35s | Hard cut to a home office — blinds, laptop, desk chair. One hand holds the pad to camera, the other holds the pouch label-forward: "Amococo Turmeric & Kojic Cleansing Pads, 20 count". | none |
| 14.59s | Home, white headwrap. Whole face under white and yellow lather, a pad held over each closed eye. Lather on her chest too. | none |
| 17.84s | Extreme close-up on thigh and hip, striped fabric pulled aside, skin glossy and even, water streaking down. | none |

**What carries the value**

The bystanders. Every other beat in this video exists in a hundred other skincare posts; what is unusual is that the transformation lands in a room full of strangers who react on camera. Take the crowd out and it is an ordinary demo.

**Not shown by the frames — do not fill these in**

- No audio was available, so whether anyone speaks, and whether the beat is carried by dialogue or by music, is unknown.
- None of the six sampled frames carries burned-in text. Text appearing between samples cannot be ruled out from stills.
- Whether beats 1–3 are one continuous take or several cuts is not determinable from six stills.
- Her skin tone reads noticeably lighter at 8.11s than at 1.62s, seconds apart in the same scene. No cleansing pad does that in seconds, so this is generated, edited, or filtered. The frames cannot say which, and the crowd's reactions may be generated too. Rebuild the *structure*, not that claim.

**Shoot it**

- **Camera.** Handheld phone, vertical, held close — chest-to-eye height, subject filling the lower two-thirds. Keep the room's depth behind her so the reacting people stay readable; that background is the format. Stunt half feels continuous; hard cuts for the product beat and the home beats.
- **Location.** A room where the routine is socially wrong and there is a seated audience already facing the right way — a restaurant, a waiting room, a boardroom. The audience must be in shot, not implied.
- **Light.** Available light only. Daylight from windows on one side, warm overheads above, no fill, no reflector. The mixed colour is part of the phone-footage read.
- **Wardrobe.** One loud, high-saturation sleeveless piece against a room dressed dark and formal. The colour contrast is what makes her the subject in a wide frame.
- **Cast.** Background people who actually stop and look. Their faces need to be in enough focus to register the reaction — that is the shot.
- **Props.** A white cloth napkin (it reads as "she is using the restaurant's linen", which is half the transgression), the applicator, and the pack.
- **The product beat.** Shoot it somewhere plain and unstyled — a desk, blinds, a laptop. Label square to camera and readable. The drop in production value after the stunt is deliberate.
- **The tail.** Repeat the same routine at home with nothing hidden, then one close-up on the treated area. Two shots, no more.

Needs a performer and a reacting crowd, so this is not a hands-only format.

**Or generate it**

Most important beat — the face-to-camera payoff with the diners reacting behind (8.11s):

```
vertical 9:16 handheld phone photograph inside an upscale restaurant — white
coffered ceiling, brass chandeliers, tall windows with daylight, white
tablecloths, diners in dark formalwear at tables behind. {SUBJECT} in a bright
high-saturation multicoloured sleeveless dress leans close to the lens, filling
the lower two-thirds of the frame, face clean and lit, mouth open in a wide
grin, a white cloth napkin held at her chest, {PRODUCT} just out of frame. Two
or three diners behind her in shallow focus are open-mouthed, looking straight
at her. Mixed light: cool daylight from the windows on one side, warm chandelier
light overhead, no fill. Phone-camera look, slight grain, no retouching, no
on-screen text.
```

**Motion:** handheld, camera pushed in toward her face as she turns to lens, the room and the reacting diners staying visible behind her — no cut, no zoom ramp.

**Text overlay:** none. This format runs with zero burned-in text; the claim lives in the platform caption instead —
`{benefit}—literally! Our {PRODUCT} {verb} your {body area} in just one {unit of use}. ✨`

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