Satisfying process / ASMR: 30 seconds of one process, real sound, no talking

The sound-led format that holds without a hook sentence because the first frame is mid-action and the audio is the process itself. The prompt plans the cuts to the sounds and the single text line.

Plan a satisfying-process video of {process} for {topic or channel}. The format works because the viewer's ear is hooked by a real sound in the first half second and the eye follows a process to its end; narration kills it. Sound is recorded on set, no music, no voice.

Structure (30 s, 9:16):
- 0-1 s: start mid-action, on the loudest clean sound of the process (a knife through cabbage, a scraper on a board, a tap on glass). Never start on a wide shot of the room.
- 1-25 s: 6-9 shots, each cut on a sound event, not on a beat. Shot sizes alternate close-up and extreme close-up; one medium shot allowed, placed in the middle. Each shot shows the process one step further; no step repeated.
- 25-29 s: the finished thing, held, with its own sound (a plate set down, a lid closing).
- 29-30 s: one on-screen line only, max 6 words, naming the result or the time it took. No CTA of any kind. If a tool or app was used, it is visible; the comments will ask.

Word budget: 0 spoken. On-screen text: the one line at the end.

Return: a table (time, shot size, what happens, the sound that starts the shot, mic position), then a 3-line recording note (which sounds to record separately, which to keep from camera audio).

Process: {process}
Sounds in it that I can record cleanly: {list}

In Claude Code, paste the prompt as a message.

Example

Process: making a smash burger. Channel: weeknight cooking.

Time Shot size What happens Sound that starts the shot Mic
0-3 s ECU Ball of meat hits the hot pan the sizzle 10 cm from the pan, off to the side
3-6 s CU Spatula presses it flat the press, metal on metal same
6-9 s ECU Edge crisps, fat bubbles bubbling same
9-12 s MS Hand salts from above salt landing overhead
12-15 s CU Spatula scrapes under, flips the scrape side
15-18 s ECU Cheese lands, starts to melt the slap of the slice side
18-21 s CU Lid on, steam lid on the pan side
21-25 s CU Lid off, patty onto the bun lid off, the soft drop onto bread side
25-29 s CU Bun top pressed on, burger set on a board the press, the board board level
29-30 s CU Hold silence

On-screen at 29 s: ‘4 minutes, one pan’.

Recording note: record the sizzle and the scrape separately with the mic close, the room is too loud for the camera track; keep the camera audio for the salt and the lid; shoot everything twice so each cut has a clean sound start.

Tips

  • Cut on the sound, not on the picture. Start each shot a few frames before its sound so the ear leads the eye.
  • Life2Film's frame scoring finds the sharpest, best-lit second of each take; for this format that is the shot, and you only pick the order.
  • A phone's built-in mic clips on the sizzle. A cheap lavalier taped to the counter edge, 10 cm from the pan, is the whole audio setup.
works withClaude Code: Runs as a skill or a prompt in the terminal; can read your files and write the result. · Claude: Paste into claude.ai or the Claude app. · ChatGPT: Paste into ChatGPT; works with any GPT model. · Any LLM: Model-agnostic: Gemini, Mistral, a local model. · Life2Film: The montage app: analysis, segment scoring and cuts on your device.
costFree. No API, no key.
statusUnverified: written from the technique, not yet run end to end by us.
licenseCC BY 4.0 for the text here; skills are MIT.
updated2026-11-01
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