# Day-count self-test — rebuild sheet

A guy in his attic bedroom runs a three-day breathing experiment on himself, with a coloured-ball breath trainer scoring it on camera — 24.3s, 15,059,706 views, 562,527 likes.

**Why it works**

The promise is dated and small enough to check ("2x Stamina in 3 Days"), so the day counter turns the video into an experiment the viewer wants the result of rather than a pitch they can leave. The plastic instrument is the referee: a dumb object visibly reacting to his breath does the persuading, so nothing rests on him being believable.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
|---|---|---|
| 1.95s | Chest-up selfie in a grey hoodie, attic bedroom, plain white sloped wall. A short black mouthpiece clamped in his teeth, one hand up beside his face, eyes shut mid-effort. | Day 1: / POV: 2x Stamina in 3 Days❗ |
| 5.84s | Camera propped at counter height. Pale blue fitted training top, black strip across the bridge of his nose, leaning over a stone counter exhaling hard. Lower third, in focus: a clear three-chamber breath trainer with red, yellow and green balls. Unmade bed behind. | First Test: |
| 9.73s | Tight face close-up, back in the hoodie, finger pointing at the black strip on his nose. | EndurancePro+EnduraStrips = PROFI-STAMINA! 🫁✅ |
| 13.62s | Extreme close insert: open palm holding a clear plastic bottle-shaped vessel with a cloudy off-white column inside. Plain grey wall. | 1. Clean my Lungs! 🤢🫁 |
| 17.52s | Low-angle selfie against the sloped ceiling, plain black t-shirt, a grey ridged mouthpiece (a different device from beat 1) in his mouth, eyes shut, face flushed. | Day 3: ✅ |
| 21.41s | Borrowed footage — soft, shallow, telephoto, obviously another source. A footballer in Real Madrid training kit and a blue training mask jogs on indoor green turf. | 3. Used by Real Madrid!⚽✅ |

**What the frames do not show — do not fill these in**

- The numbered claim run jumps from "1." to "3.". Item 2 falls between sampled beats; it is not in any frame.
- No score is ever readable. The trainer appears twice but no number, no before/after, no ball-height comparison is visible in these frames — the "2x" is asserted in text only.
- Six stills across 24.3s say nothing about audio. Whether he speaks, and whether there is music or a voiceover, is unknown. Cut rhythm between beats is likewise unobservable.
- The vessel at 13.62s is not identifiable from the frame. It reads as a clear bottle with a cloudy white column; what it is and where it came from is not shown.
- The product names on screen are the source's own. Nothing in the frames demonstrates how either item works.
- The closing beat is not his footage. Sourcing something equivalent, and the rights to use it, is on the maker.

**What carries the value**

The measuring instrument. A cheap clear-plastic device with coloured balls that visibly reacts to a breath — the claim gets scored by an object on camera instead of argued by a person. Everything else (the room, the hoodie, the face) is deliberately ordinary so the instrument is the only thing worth looking at.

**Shoot it**

- **Camera.** Phone front camera, vertical, handheld for the face beats and propped/static for the test beat. No moves, no zooms. Keep the device in the lower third and in focus while the person's effort happens above it — one frame holds both the claimant and the referee.
- **Light.** Whatever the room has. Dim warm ceiling light, flat and unflattering, is correct here. Do not light it; lit footage reads as an ad and kills the experiment.
- **Room.** One ordinary room, visibly lived in — sloped ceiling, unmade bed, a counter with a bit of clutter. Same room every beat so the day counter is the only thing changing.
- **Wardrobe.** Change tops between days and nothing else. Grey hoodie / training top / plain black tee — that wardrobe change is the only evidence that days passed, so it has to be visible and boring.
- **Performance.** None required. Effort with the eyes shut is the whole performance; no talking to camera, no delivery.
- **Text.** Bold white sans, same position each beat. Two runs going at once: the day counter, and the numbered claim list. Keep each under six words.
- **You need.** A device that visibly measures something. If your product has no such object, this format does not transfer — the format is the instrument.

**Or generate it**

The beat worth generating is 5.84s — the test.

```
vertical 9:16 photograph, {SUBJECT} in a plain fitted long-sleeve athletic top,
standing behind a grey stone counter in a small attic bedroom with a sloped white
ceiling and an unmade bed with a striped pillow behind them, leaning forward and
exhaling hard with cheeks drawn in and eyes squeezed shut, {PRODUCT} standing on
the counter in the lower third of the frame in sharp focus, dim warm indoor ceiling
light, phone front-camera look, slight grain, no retouching, no on-screen text
```

**Motion:** camera propped at counter height and essentially static — only the subject's effort and the device's reaction move in frame, held long enough for the device to visibly respond.

**Text-overlay pattern:** bold white sans with a thin dark edge, same left-aligned spot every beat. The opener pins two lines — a stage label `Day {n}:` mid-frame and the promise `POV: {result} in {n} Days❗` low. Test beats carry a short label (`First Test:`, `Day {n}: ✅`). A separate numbered claim run cuts in between them — `{n}. {claim}! {emoji}` — with the last number landing on borrowed authority footage as `{n}. Used by {authority}!{emoji}✅`.

**Reference:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DU_S_B9ilq2/ — @maksymbochan
