# Filth-extraction montage — rebuild sheet

A 30-second wordless callus-removal video: a tool dragged across one bad surface until a pile of shavings builds up, then the same tool on a second surface in another room, closing on the tool itself. By heyheels — 1,273,692 views, 8,533 likes.

**Why it works** — The persuasion is the debris, not the surface: a pile of removed material grows in every beat, and extracted material is the one kind of proof that cannot be staged or edited into existence. Nothing is written on screen, so there is no claim to disbelieve — the viewer is only measuring how much came off.

## The beats

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
|---|---|---|
| 2.42s | Low, floor-level handheld looking up at a woman in blue medical scrubs seated in a retail shoe store — shoe shelves, sandals on the floor, fluorescent ceiling strips, a display mirror behind her. Her bare foot is out toward the lens on a navy towel, the sole filling the lower half of frame, dry and thickly calloused. A second person's hand supports the foot at the left edge. She is speaking. | none |
| 7.25s | Same angle, same store. A white handheld tool with a red abrasive pad is drawn across the ball and heel of the sole; the first curl of white shavings lands on the navy towel. | none |
| 12.08s | Same setup, slightly closer. The tool works the heel; shavings on the towel and the tiled floor have multiplied into a visible scatter. | none |
| 16.92s | Hard cut to a different place — a home interior, white door, wood floor, plain wall. Macro on a foot on a navy towel, a hand running the same white tool (grey pad now) down the side of the heel, a pile of shavings already under it. | none |
| 21.75s | Same home setting, a touch wider — a hiking boot on the floor behind. The tool works the back of the heel; the pile on the towel is bigger again. | none |
| 26.58s | Close on the tool held in a hand against a white marble surface, red abrasive pad angled to the lens. No foot in frame. | none |

**Not visible in the frames, so not claimed here:** there is no on-screen text at any of the six beats. Whether anyone is speaking on the audio track cannot be told from stills, only that her mouth is moving in the first three. Nothing above the ankle appears in the home beats, so it cannot be told whether that is the same person. No rinse-the-tool beat is sampled — the video's last sampled beat is the pad held to camera.

## What carries the value

The debris. The pile of shaved-off skin on the navy towel is the only thing on screen that changes across the whole runtime, and it grows in every single beat. Everything else — the room, the person, the tool — is fixed dressing around it.

## Shoot it

- **Camera:** phone, vertical, handheld, held at the level of the work — not on a tripod, and not above it. First act from low and close so the treated surface fills the bottom half of frame; second act in macro right on the contact point. Reframe with the hands, no cuts inside a shot.
- **The debris must always be in frame.** Put the work on a dark towel or dark surface so pale debris reads instantly, and keep the growing pile inside the bottom of every frame from the first pass on.
- **Two locations, hard cut.** One public / borrowed setting, one plain domestic one. No transition, no establishing shot.
- **Light:** whatever is there — retail ceiling strips in act one, plain daylight in act two. No lamps, no fill, no colour grade.
- **Wardrobe:** ordinary working clothes on the subject, nothing branded, nothing styled. In act two only the hands and the treated area need to be in frame.
- **Text:** none anywhere. Everything to be said goes in the post caption.
- **Close on the mechanism** — the tool's working face held to the lens against a plain surface, no subject in frame.

## Or generate it

The beat worth generating is the macro contact beat with the debris pile.

```
vertical 9:16 close photograph of a hand holding {PRODUCT} pressed against
the heel of {SUBJECT}'s bare foot resting on a navy folded towel, a visible
pile of pale shavings lifted off and heaped on the towel below the foot,
plain domestic interior behind — wood floor, a white door, a boot on the
floor — even daylight, phone-camera look, slight grain, no retouching of
the skin, no on-screen text
```

**Motion:** handheld macro at the contact point, drifting with the hand as the tool drags down the heel, no cuts inside the shot, the debris pile staying in frame the whole time.

**Text overlay:** none on screen at any beat — the post caption carries everything:

> {time span} of {failed method} and it never worked 😭
>
> Would you have done the same?
>
> Comment {KEYWORD} and I'll send you the link 👀

**Reference:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DcUC3I3TM-Y/
