# Found clip, reaction cut

**7,310,353 views proved it** · 3 of Damon's swipes use this format

## What it is

Someone else's footage runs full-frame with zero overlay for most of the runtime, then a hard cut puts the poster alone in a bare room for the rest of it. The reaction is withheld to the end rather than running alongside — the borrowed clip is never shared with a panel.

## Why it works

Giving the found clip the whole frame lets it work at full strength, so the viewer is fully invested before the creator appears. Arriving only at the cut makes the take feel earned rather than parasitic.

## The beats, in order

1. the borrowed clip opens full-frame, no overlay, no panel
2. it escalates on its own terms
3. it peaks — chaos, a collision, an unstageable moment
4. hard cut: the poster alone in a different room, straight to camera
5. the take is delivered and held to the end

## On-screen text

zero on-screen text at any beat — the post caption credits the borrowed clip and carries anything else that needs saying

## Camera

act one is whatever the borrowed footage was shot on, full-frame and uncut; act two is a handheld selfie in a bare room, no set, no props

## Higgsfield — image prompt

```
vertical 9:16, act one: {borrowed clip described exactly} full-frame, ground-locked, real location, no on-screen text · act two: {poster described exactly} alone in {a bare room}, handheld selfie distance, {light source}, phone-camera look, no on-screen text
```

## Higgsfield — motion

```
act one plays uncut with its own camera; hard cut to act two, handheld selfie, the poster talking straight to the lens with no cutaway
```

## Produce it

Paste those into the Higgsfield employee: https://higgsfield.ai/supercomputer/skills?employeeId=0d38d619-0ac2-45c9-bfd5-3371837ccad3

## The references in this folder

- **@jalenhinton_** — 7,310,353 views — https://www.instagram.com/p/DYU2tHsOcot/
- **@notkyrell.tos** — 5,178,235 views — https://www.instagram.com/p/DbrMJM2JmgX/
- **@official_lfy_trav** — 295,939 views — https://www.instagram.com/p/DUTHU6GkSKK/

Each `.md` beside this file is one reference torn down: its beats with
timestamps, what carries the value, how to shoot it, and its own prompts.
`frames/` holds the six beats of each as one picture.
