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@jennaphipps POOL RENO PART 1: The official demo and reno work won’t start till after we finish the house this year but we are starting to plan now because… there are a lot of unknowns with this pool 😂
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Abandoned pool before renovation tourfrom @jennaphipps
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Overview
The creator provides a tour of their abandoned swimming pool after it has been cleaned out. She walks through the empty pool and around the deck, pointing out all the dilapidated and non-functional elements, including broken lights, a single old ladder, missing tiles, broken pavers, an old wooden diving board, and a large wooden bench. She concludes by stating that nearly everything needs to be replaced and announces that this is the start of a pool renovation series.
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Simple outline
- 1Establish 'before' state
- 2Systematically tour flaws
- 3Summarize overwhelming scope
- 4Glimpse the 'after'
- 5Promise future content
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Hook analysis
What stops the scroll in the first 3 seconds
Title hook · 40%
renovating our abandoned pool part 1
Verbal hook · 30%
We cleaned out our abandoned pool two years ago.
Visual hook · 30%
The video opens with a visually striking shot of a dirty, overgrown, and abandoned pool filled with murky water. This is followed by a rapid montage of the cleaning process, including weed-whacking, pumping out sludge, and pressure washing, which creates immediate action and visual contrast.
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Hook template
Steal this for your own video
part 1:
- — Renovating our abandoned pool part 1: the before nobody wants to see
- — Restoring my grandfather's rusted truck part 1: it hasn't started in 20 years
- — Turning a gutted storefront into my bakery part 1: day one of demo
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Hook and payoff
The promise the opener makes, and how the video pays it back
Hook
A wide shot of the 'problem space' with a text overlay stating the ambitious goal, immediately establishing the context and stakes of the transformation.
Payoff
The Relatable Cliffhanger: A concluding statement that expresses vulnerability or uncertainty about the process, followed by a direct promise of a future content series, effectively converting viewers into followers.
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Narrative framework
The structural pattern this video runs on
Framework
The 'Before & Promise' Tour
To showcase the massive scale of a problem/project by systematically inventorying every flawed component, thereby creating immense anticipation for the future solution/transformation.
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The Invitation
State the project's context and invite the audience on a guided tour of the current, problematic state before any work begins.
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The Problem Inventory
A rapid-fire sequence where the creator moves through the space, identifying specific components and detailing their flaws, forming the core 'list' of the video.
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The Quirky Detail
An optional, unscripted-feeling moment that adds personality and humanizes the tour by pointing out a small, unexpected detail.
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The Scope Summary
A beat that transitions from listing individual problems to a single, overwhelming statement about the total scale of the required work, emphasizing the project's difficulty.
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The Lone Exception
A statement identifying the one thing that will remain unchanged, which ironically highlights the magnitude of the changes needed for everything else.
- 6
The Vision Flash
A very brief, almost subliminal visual flash of the intended final outcome. This acts as a powerful visual promise and reward for watching the 'before' tour.
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Post caption
POOL RENO PART 1: The official demo and reno work won’t start till after we finish the house this year but we are starting to plan now because… there are a lot of unknowns with this pool 😂
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title · beginning
renovating our abandoned pool part 1
Transcript
We cleaned out our abandoned pool two years ago. And before we start the no, let me give you a tour of what we're working with. Right now, we have two of these lights, which they definitely don't work. We have this one six year old ladder as the only stairs to get into the pool. We probably have 50% of the tile left. We have all original pavers as well. Sometimes if you lift this one up, there's a lizard. No lizard today. We also have the original wood diving board tier. And then we also have this huge wood bench that goes around the whole pool. But Best basically, everything needs to be replaced in this pool. We need to make tier. We need to make it more shallow. We gotta fix our bench here. The only thing that is probably staying is the shape of it. I have no idea how we're gonna do this, but a pool series will be coming next year.