# Subtitled monologue with evidence cutaways — rebuild sheet

A 2m28s health-claim monologue delivered by a robed elder standing in a Japanese garden, cut twice to visuals that show what he is claiming — 728,638 views, 15,037 likes, by shenmuhealer.

**Why it works**

A costumed authority figure standing perfectly still in a serene, expensive-looking place buys the claim credibility before a single word is read — the viewer is judging the persona, not the evidence. The captions then never finish a sentence, so there is no clean place to leave, and the one anatomical cutaway converts an assertion into something that looks observed.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
|---|---|---|
| 11.84s | Front-camera head-and-shoulders of an older woman, grey hair pulled back, navy V-neck top, dim room with warm window light behind. She looks down the lens, faintly smiling. | AGING **BADLY** |
| 35.53s | Locked full-body medium-wide: elderly bald man in a yellow outer robe over a red under-robe, centred, hands clasped, in a manicured Japanese garden — raked gravel, stone lantern, pond, temple roof, maples, pink azaleas. Flat bright daylight. | NOT BAD **SKINCARE** |
| 59.22s | The identical frame. Same pose, same garden, same light — nothing has moved but his mouth. | **MENOPAUSE** |
| 82.91s | Identical frame again, but both hands are up at chest height holding the robe open; mouth open mid-word. | IT **CANNOT** PROCESS |
| 106.6s | Full-frame 3D medical render — liver and gallbladder in deep red inside a translucent torso, ribcage and spine ghosted around it, vessels running down. No person, no room. | **CLEAN** THE LIVER |
| 130.28s | Back to the identical garden frame, hands clasped again, mouth open mid-word. | *(none)* |

Every caption is bold white with a black outline, centred, with one word in yellow. The words read as fragments of one continuous piece of speech — nothing is ever pinned and no fragment is a complete sentence.

**What carries the value**

The costumed elder himself. A calm old man in temple robes, standing still in a garden that reads as ancient and unhurried, gives a health claim an authority nobody has to earn or prove. The liver cutaway is the only beat that shows rather than asserts, and it lands exactly once.

**What the frames do not show**

- No product and no brand appears in any of the six sampled frames. There is no on-screen call to action anywhere — the offer lives entirely in the post caption, which sends people to a paid handbook via a link in bio.
- Only 6 stills across 148 seconds were read. What happens between the samples is unknown — there may be more cutaways than the one.
- I cannot tell from stills whether the elder is lip-synced to a real voice, dubbed, or silent under a voiceover. His mouth is open in three frames, so something is being spoken; that is as far as the evidence goes.
- Both the woman and the elder look generated rather than filmed — very smooth skin, flawless flat light, a background that never varies by a pixel. I am reading that off the stills, not off any metadata.

**Shoot it**

The source almost certainly was not shot, but this rebuilds on a phone:

- **Camera.** One tripod, one framing, full body, subject dead centre, lens at chest height, and never touched again. Every return to the speaker must be the same frame to the pixel — mark the tripod feet. No push, no pan, no second angle, no handheld.
- **Location.** One place with layered landmarks — something on the ground, something mid-ground, a structure and trees behind. It has to be recognisable in half a second so every cut back reads as home.
- **Light.** Flat, outdoors, overcast or open shade. No hard shadow across the face. Same time of day for every take so the returns match.
- **Wardrobe.** One costume, unmissable, worn identically at every beat — the costume is the argument. Never change it mid-video.
- **The two cutaways.** One tight front-camera head-and-shoulders of whoever the problem happens to, dim room, warm light behind. One full-frame anatomy or mechanism render, no person and no room in it.
- **Captions.** Transcribe your own narration, break it into 2–4 word fragments, one per cut, heavy bold white with a black outline, centred. One word per fragment in yellow — the word that carries the claim. Never let a fragment complete a sentence.

**Or generate it**

The speaker frame is the beat that matters — build it once and regenerate it from the same seed for every return.

```
vertical 9:16, locked full-body medium-wide of {SUBJECT} standing dead centre
frame, hands clasped at the waist, looking straight down the lens, wearing a
single unmistakable authority costume, in one serene outdoor location with
strong recognisable landmarks behind them at every depth — foreground ground
texture, a mid-ground water feature and stone object, a building roofline and
trees behind; bright flat overcast daylight, no hard shadow on the face,
saturated colour, clean render look, no on-screen text, no {PRODUCT} anywhere
in frame
```

**Motion.** Camera absolutely locked — no push, no pan, no reframe — with only the speaker's mouth and hands moving, and the frame regenerated from the same seed every time the video returns to it so the background matches exactly.

**Text overlay.** `{SPOKEN FRAGMENT IN CAPS}` — one 2-to-4-word clause of the narration per beat, centre frame, heavy bold white sans with a black outline, the single load-bearing word set in yellow (`{KEYWORD}`). The fragment changes on every cut, is never a complete sentence, and is never pinned across beats.

**Reference:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DbD9fxkijjf/
