# Subtitled monologue, angle cuts — rebuild sheet

A 57-second podcast-room argument about autoimmune conditions and vegetables, carried entirely by a running speech caption cut across fixed camera angles — 589,748 views, 8,780 likes.

**Why it works**
The caption is mid-sentence at every single beat and never completes, so there is no clean moment to leave — the viewer is always three words short of the point. Nothing else in the frame changes, which forces all the attention onto the claim itself and makes the angle cuts read as pace rather than production.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
|---|---|---|
| 4.56s | Chest-up on a man on a low pale couch — dark hair, plain black tee, big boom mic entering from the right. White painted brick and a pale curtain behind. Mouth open mid-sentence, camera at seated eye level. | AUTOIMMUNE |
| 13.69s | Cut to a second person on the same couch: blonde, long hair, white fitted tee, olive trousers, her own boom mic at frame right. Wider than beat 1, hands loose in her lap, mouth open. | BUT I'M PROBABLY |
| 22.81s | Same person, tighter and from a slightly different angle, head turned off-lens, hands together, mouth closed. | AND THIS IS EXACTLY |
| 31.94s | Back to the man, tighter than beat 1 and from a different angle — mic further right, more brick behind him. Mid-sentence. | AUTOIMMUNE |
| 41.06s | Man, tightest framing of the six, right hand raised into frame gesturing. | IS WHERE |
| 50.19s | Man, close again, eyes cast down, still mid-sentence. | AND I'M JUST USING |

Two things the frames do not show, and I have not guessed at them: **who is speaking on the two beats with the second person** (her mouth is open at 13.69s and closed at 22.81s, and the caption reads as one continuous voice either way), and **whether any camera moves inside a shot** — six stills can only prove the cuts, not the motion. The supplied caption is also cut off mid-word ("full of defense chemicals th"), so the argument's ending is not in evidence.

**What carries the value**
The running speech caption. It is unfinished at every beat, and the claim it is carrying — a clinical-experience claim about removing a whole food group — is the entire payload. There is no product in a single frame, no demonstration, no cutaway, no b-roll. The angle cuts do no persuading; they only stop an unchanging room from going stale while the sentence runs.

**Shoot it**
- **Camera:** two or three phones on tripods, all at seated eye level, all locked. One on each speaker plus one tighter angle on whoever carries the argument. Roll all of them for the whole take and cut between them in the edit — never move a camera mid-shot.
- **Framing:** chest-up. Get tighter as the argument gets to its point (this video's tightest frame is its most emphatic one, at 41.06s).
- **Light:** soft, even, from the front. No visible shadow shapes, no coloured light, no glow. It should look like a room with good daylight, not a set.
- **Room:** one plain textured wall — brick, plaster, a curtain — and a low couch. Nothing on the wall. The room must be identical in every angle.
- **Wardrobe:** plain, single-colour, no logos, no pattern. Black tee here; white tee on the second person. Nothing that pulls the eye off the caption.
- **Props:** real boom-arm microphones in frame at chest height. They are the only signal that this is a recorded conversation rather than an ad, and they are doing real work.
- **Text:** burn the speech captions in, one or two lines, centre-low, heavy all-caps sans with a hard black outline. Red on the word carrying the claim, white on the rest. Cut every caption mid-sentence — the sentence should never finish inside a beat.
- **Talent:** this one needs a person with something to claim. There is nothing else on screen to hide behind.

**Or generate it**

```
vertical 9:16 photograph, {SUBJECT} seated on a low pale couch in a podcast
room, plain black t-shirt, a large studio microphone on a boom arm entering
frame from the right at chest height, white painted brick wall and a pale
curtain behind, soft even front key light, chest-up framing at seated eye
level, fixed camera, natural skin with no retouching, no on-screen text —
no product appears in any frame of the source; if {PRODUCT} must be present
it sits unheld on the low table beside the mic
```

*Motion:* camera locked at seated eye level with no push and no pan — the piece advances by cutting between fixed angles, not by moving. Generate every beat from the same seed so the room, the wall and the mic match exactly across cuts.

*Text overlay:* one or two lines, centre-low, heavy all-caps sans with a hard black outline; the first line in red is the word carrying the claim, the second line in white continues it — `{CLAIM WORD}` / `{NEXT CLAUSE}` — mid-sentence at every beat, completing at none.

**Reference:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DT5eRyDDec2/
