# Subtitled monologue, angle cuts — rebuild sheet

A shirtless man talks one car metaphor straight to the lens for 79.71s in his own apartment, with his speech burned in a clause at a time — 6,392 views, 137 likes (@altayyourshoe).

**Why it works** — The metaphor is a ladder, so every clause opens the next rung and the subtitle is always cut off mid-sentence, leaving no clean place to stop watching. The body making the claim is on screen for the entire runtime with nothing else to look at, so the argument gets audited against the person the whole time instead of against a product.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
|---|---|---|
| 6.38s | Chest-up medium. Shirtless, patterned lounge pants, standing in a bright apartment living/kitchen space — counter and appliances behind at right, dark doorway at left, track lights, rug. One arm out mid-gesture. | you only get from point a to point b |
| 19.13s | Much tighter — head and shoulders fill the frame, mouth open mid-word, eyes on the lens. | you upgrade the engine |
| 31.88s | Tightest beat. Face and bare torso large; one open hand thrust up toward the lens, out of focus. | once you become a mercedes |
| 44.64s | Wide — he has stepped back into the room, full torso and thighs, standing on the rug, arm extended. Doorway and a small wall sheet visible at left. | and boom then you push again to the next level |
| 57.39s | Back in close, chest-up, still mid-word. | six to twelve months later ("six to twelve months" highlighted yellow, "later" white) |
| 70.14s | Medium close, brow raised, still talking to camera. Identical room and light. | and when you walk up to that fine piece of ass at the gym |

Not visible in the frames, so not claimed: the first 6.38s are unsampled, so whatever opens the video — a hook card, a cold open — is unknown. There is no audio here, so whether the size changes are hard cuts or him walking toward and away from a fixed camera cannot be settled from six stills; the background reads slightly wider on the 44.64s beat, which leans toward a real reframe. The caption's "Ferrari" and "Camry" wording and the "Comment 'Ferrari'" gate appear only in the post caption — neither shows up on screen in any sampled frame.

**What carries the value** — The spoken metaphor itself, running unbroken through the subtitles (point a to point b → upgrade the engine → become a mercedes → push again → six to twelve months later), with the operator's own shirtless body standing in for proof. No product, no demonstration, no evidence footage, no second location at any beat.

**Shoot it**

- **Camera.** A phone at chest height, roughly still, in one room. Three sizes across the runtime: a chest-up medium, a tight head-and-shoulders, and one wide where the speaker steps back into the room. Get the size change by moving the speaker, not by zooming — his hands stay free to gesture, including one shove of an open palm at the lens.
- **Room.** A real lived-in space with depth behind the speaker: a kitchen run on one side, a doorway on the other, a rug underfoot. Nothing styled, nothing cleared.
- **Light.** Plain window daylight with the room's own ceiling lights on. Flat and even; no fill, no bounce, no colour.
- **Wardrobe.** Whatever puts the claim on the speaker's own body — here, shirtless plus lounge pants. The body is the credential, so it has to be visible for the whole runtime.
- **Text.** Burn in the speech one clause at a time, bold white with a dark outline, centre-low, two lines maximum, changing on every beat. Break the clauses so they land mid-sentence. Highlight exactly one phrase in the whole video in yellow — the timeframe, the thing you want remembered.
- **Talent.** Not replicable without a person. This is one performance held for 80 seconds with nothing to cut away to.

**Or generate it**

```
vertical 9:16, {SUBJECT} shirtless in patterned lounge pants, standing in their own bright apartment living room, framed tight from the chest up, one open hand raised toward the lens and slightly out of focus, talking straight to camera mid-word; a kitchen counter with small appliances behind at right, a dark doorway at left, track lights on a white ceiling, a rug on the floor; flat daylight from windows off-frame, phone-camera look, slight grain, no retouching, no on-screen text, no {PRODUCT} anywhere in frame
```

**Motion** — camera at chest height and roughly still while {SUBJECT} moves toward the lens on the tight beats and walks back into the room on the wide one; the change in size comes from the subject, not a zoom.

**Text overlay** — one spoken clause per beat: `{clause of the running metaphor}` → `{next clause}` → `{timeframe} later` (timeframe words alone in yellow) → `{clause that names the payoff}`. Nothing is ever pinned unchanged.

**Reference:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DVj04MMkkei/
