# Spoken-caption applied demo — rebuild sheet

A 23.87s front-camera pore demo shot entirely on the creator's own face — 1,623,609 views, 9,513 likes, by chxrryglowy.

**Why it works**

It opens on the worst-looking frame in the whole video — a nose in extreme macro with the blackheads individually countable — under a quoted line that says the problem doesn't matter, so the picture is already arguing with the text before anything is applied. Then a new caption lands on each beat while the product goes on her own face, and the captions stop entirely once the sebum is visible, because from that point the extraction is doing the persuading and words would only get in its way.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1.91s | Extreme macro of her own nose from below, squeezed between two fingertips, blackheads legible one by one; a small red spot at the top. No room visible. | “Blackheads are natural” |
| 5.73s | Macro from a lower side angle — nose and one eye, skin wet and glossy with product, a pale creamy patch on the nostril. | I'm cleaning my pores |
| 9.55s | Pulls out to the whole face, front-on, the entire face slick and shining; both hands enter from the bottom, index fingers pressing either side of the nose, one eye squinting shut. | only this product works |
| 13.37s | Back to extreme macro — one eye and the side of the nose. A fingertip presses the nostril and a pale plug of sebum stands up out of the skin under the nail. | SEBUM |
| 17.19s | Extreme macro on brow and eye, a fingertip and nail held up close in the foreground. *The frame does not resolve what, if anything, is on the nail.* | — |
| 21.01s | Wider three-quarter close of the face, skin still glossy, one finger under the nostril, mouth open. Plain grey wall behind. | — |

The frames do not show a clean before/after comparison — there is no final wide of cleared skin, and no product is ever held to the lens or shown with a readable label. The caption ("It's time for double cleansing 👃 #blackheads #sebum #doublecleansing #orien #kbeauty #koreangirl #bha") is the only place the routine is named. I could not hear the audio, so whether beats 2–4 are subtitles of her speech or lines she typed on is unverified.

**What carries the value**

The sebum. A pale plug pushed visibly out of a pore in extreme macro, on the exact nose the video opened on covered in blackheads — same face, same framing distance, so nothing could have been swapped in.

**Shoot it**

- **Camera:** phone front camera, held at arm's length or closer. Two distances only, and swap between them: extreme macro where the nose fills the frame edge to edge, and a face-wide front-on. Nothing else in shot — no room, no set, no props.
- **Light:** flat, even, frontal daylight. The skin has to read glossy and wet in every frame, so no side light and no shadow across the nose; a window straight in front of the face is enough.
- **Wardrobe:** irrelevant and mostly out of frame — a plain dark top is all that shows. Hair loose. Nails matter more than clothes: long squared nude nails read clean in macro right next to the skin.
- **Skin:** no makeup, no retouching, no filter. The pores are the asset. Shoot the untreated macro first, before anything touches the face — that frame is the hook and it cannot be recreated afterwards.
- **The extraction:** the payoff beat is one fingertip pressing beside a pore with the plug emerging. Do not cut inside that shot.

**Or generate it**

The single most important beat is 13.37s — the SEBUM macro.

```
vertical 9:16 extreme macro photograph, {SUBJECT}'s own face filling the whole frame — one eye and the side of the nose only, no room visible — skin wet and glossy with {PRODUCT} still on it, their own fingertip with a long nude squared nail pressing the side of the nostril, a pale plug of sebum standing up out of the pore under the nail and catching the light, visible pores and unretouched skin texture across the cheek, flat even frontal indoor daylight, plain out-of-focus pale wall at the very edge of frame, phone front-camera look, slight grain, no retouching, no on-screen text
```

**Motion:** front camera held at arm's length just off the nose and drifting closer as the fingertip presses — no cut and no zoom inside the beat, the pore staying centred while the plug emerges.

**Text overlay:** beat 1 only — “{the myth about the problem}” in curly quotes, bold white with a black outline, centred upper-middle. Then one plain thin white sans line per beat in the same centre position, no outline, never repeated: '{what I am doing}' → '{the claim about the product}' → '{ONE-WORD NAME OF THE THING COMING OUT}' → then no text at all for the final third.

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