10 files. 1080×1920, 10.5 seconds, silent. Same file works for TikTok and Reels.
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12 quote posts for the easy daily ones, text over a moody clip with trending audio.
Open the quote posts
Quote videos · 20
8 seconds, silent, serif. Seventeen are real quotes checked to a primary source; three are the lines you picked yourself. Add a trending sound in the app.
01The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. — Henry David ThoreauDownload02Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost. — DanteDownload03A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. — Francis BaconDownload04If you hear a voice within you saying, you are not a painter, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced, but only by working. — Vincent van GoghDownload05When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind. — SenecaDownload06While we are postponing, life speeds by. — SenecaDownload07Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. — Marcus AureliusDownload08It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. — Theodore RooseveltDownload09Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. — Mark TwainDownload10The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. — Nelson MandelaDownload11If you are idle, be not solitary. If you are solitary, be not idle. — Samuel JohnsonDownload12To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar WildeDownload13The secret for harvesting the greatest enjoyment from existence is to live dangerously. — Friedrich NietzscheDownload14If man were never to fade away, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty. — KenkoDownload15We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. — Norbert WienerDownload16Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate by knocking on the wall. The wall separates them but it is also their means of communication. Every separation is a link. — Simone WeilDownload17There is a great difference between still believing something and believing it again. — Georg Christoph LichtenbergDownload18You have got very good at a life that does not include anyone. — oursDownload19You would rather look uninterested than look like you tried. — oursDownload20Nobody is ignoring you. Nobody knows you are there. — oursDownload
Three scenes · newest
Face, day 1, day 30. 7.5 seconds. Both end on the real completion screen.
native-04day 1 is smile at a stranger. day 30 is dates in the diary.Downloadnative-05nothing has happened in a year. this is what 30 days does.Download
Four scenes · earlier cut
7 seconds, caption stickers, hard cuts. Built after the first reel held only
3.5s of a 10.5s runtime, with the drop landing exactly where the designed slides started.
native-02is day 1 too easy? it's smile at one strangerDownloadnative-038 reasons a guy ends up dating no one. which one is you?Downloadnative-01the stat one. weaker, kept for referenceDownload
The ten
d1you can't get a date.Downloadd2you haven't had a date in a year.Downloadd3you go home alone. every weekend.Downloade1you talk to her. then nothing happens.Downloade2you never get past small talk.Downloade3you get on well. then it ends there.Downloade4you can't turn a conversation into a date.Downloadl1you're lonely and you don't say it.Downloadl2nobody's met you.Downloadl3you spend every weekend on your own.Download
Captions. The hook is already on screen, so the caption should not repeat it.
d1, d2, d3 — it's not your face. it's that nothing's happening.
e1, e2, e3 — the conversation isn't the problem. what comes after is.
e4 — you don't need better lines. you need the ask.
l1, l2, l3 — 30 days of one small step. that's the whole thing.