# Spoken-caption applied demo — rebuild sheet

A woman works a small brush over her own face in one unmoving selfie frame for 83 seconds, one half of her face hidden behind her hand the whole time, and uncovers it at the end with four labels naming what changed — 1,780,205 views, 29,474 likes, by nicoledomuret.

**Why it works**

The age stamp pinned top-left never leaves the screen, so every second of the demo is read against a number the viewer has already accepted as the credential. The hand over half the face is a physical withholding device — the result cannot be judged until she takes it away, which is why the last beat lands as a reveal rather than a claim.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
|---|---|---|
| 6.66s | Front-camera selfie, chest-up, plain interior. Left hand flat over her right eye and cheek; right hand holds a short pale-handled bristle brush against the brow above the covered eye. A whitish cream or sheen on the brow. | `54 years old` · `I'M GOING TO REMOVE ALL THE TENSION` |
| 19.97s | Same frame. Hand still covering the same half, pressed flat, no tool in shot; covered eye shut, she is mid-word to camera. | `54 years old` · `THERE'S GOING TO BE` |
| 33.28s | Same frame. Left hand still over the brow; right index finger points at the under-eye of the uncovered side, which reads flushed pink. | `54 years old` · `BE MOVING ANY OF THAT PULLED` |
| 46.59s | Same frame, leaned slightly closer. Brush now at the side of the nose, bristles in the nostril crease, worked upward. | `54 years old` · `UP` |
| 59.9s | Same frame. Brush has moved down to the side of the neck below the jaw. | `54 years old` · `WATCH THIS.` |
| 73.22s | Hand removed — the whole face uncovered for the first time, both eyes to camera. One finger traces up the jawline. Four labels sit beside the features they name. | `54 years old` · `Lifted eyelid` · `Thinner Nostril` · `Depuffed Jowls` · `Defined Jawline` · `Drop brush in the comments to find ⬇️my recommended brand⬇️` |

The six stills are 13 seconds apart, so the caption run is sampled, not continuous — the frames do not show what is said between them, and the fragments as sampled do not join into one sentence.

**What carries the value**

Her own uncovered face at the stated age. Half of it is hidden behind her hand for the entire demo and only released on the last beat, where four labels name the change on the side you were never allowed to watch being worked. The brand is withheld entirely — the payoff for the viewer is the comment gate, not a product shot. The frames never show the product's label, so there is no brand or model visible anywhere in this video.

**Shoot it**

- **Camera:** one phone on a stand, front camera, chest-up, subject centred. Same distance and angle from first frame to last — do not reframe, do not cut away, no second angle. The six stills are framed identically; they cannot prove there was zero drift, but nothing in them moves.
- **Room:** a plain pale wall with the ceiling line visible at the top of frame and a panelled door edge at frame right. Nothing styled, nothing on the wall.
- **Light:** soft and even, straight onto the face, no hard shadows. The frames do not show where it comes from — a window or a ring light would both produce it.
- **Wardrobe:** a wide knotted fabric headband pushing all the hair off the forehead, a plain zip-front top, rings left on. No makeup on the working area; the skin should read bare and slightly shiny.
- **The blocking is the format.** One hand stays flat over the same half of the face from the first beat to the second-to-last — that is the whole retention device. Work the tool through the sequence with the other hand: brow, under-eye, nostril crease upward, then down the neck. Take the hand away only on the final beat.
- **Text:** the age stamp goes on at frame one and never moves. Speech captions burn in bottom-centre, all caps, one word per card set in yellow. Result labels appear only on the uncovered beat, each one placed next to the feature it names. The comment gate lands last, in a black box.

**Or generate it**

The most important beat is the final uncovering.

```
vertical 9:16 front-camera selfie photograph, {SUBJECT} chest-up and centred,
facing the lens, wide knotted fabric headband pushing the hair back off the
forehead, plain zip-front top, bare unmade-up skin with a soft sheen, one index
finger raised to trace the jawline, {PRODUCT} out of frame, plain pale interior
wall behind with a panelled door edge at frame right and the ceiling line at the
top, soft even frontal light with no hard shadows (the source is not visible in
frame), phone front-camera look, slight grain, no retouching, no on-screen text
```

**Motion:** camera fixed at the identical distance and angle held for every earlier beat (same seed); the only movement is the hand coming away from the face to uncover it and one finger tracing up the jawline.

**Text-overlay pattern:**

- Pinned top-left, whole runtime: `{AGE} years old`
- Bottom-centre, changing every beat: all-caps speech captions with one word in yellow — `I'M GOING TO REMOVE ALL THE {HIGHLIGHT}`
- Final beat only, white labels beside the features they name: `{RESULT 1}` · `{RESULT 2}` · `{RESULT 3}` · `{RESULT 4}`
- Final beat, black caption box: `Drop {KEYWORD} in the comments to find ⬇️my recommended brand⬇️`

**Reference:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DSLt5NtjVVA/
