Scripted street interviews. Brand-controlled, ad-account-ready.
Actor-led street interviews where the questions, hook beats, and brand mentions are planned in advance. Cleaner edit, reliable hook delivery, the fastest path to a hero ad you can actually scale on cold traffic.
If you need a hero ad that reliably hits, this is the lane.
Scripted is the right pick when the brand message has to land specifically, the hook has to deliver on the first frame, and the timeline doesn’t allow for the higher variance of pure unscripted capture.
It still reads as native, vertical, real environment, real-feeling delivery. The script is a planning tool, not a teleprompter.
Three signals you should go scripted.
How we structure questions and prompts for scripted shoots.
A scripted street interview script isn’t a monologue. It’s a short stack of questions and prompt beats that the actor delivers like a real person being interviewed. The questions are the structure; the answers stay loose enough to land natively on camera.
We typically build three layers per shoot: the hook question (what stops the scroll), one or two product questions (what the brand actually wants the audience to take away), and a closing beat (the line we want the viewer leaving with). Brand approves all three before we shoot a frame.
Where scripted street interviews fit in a campaign: hero ads for cold paid acquisition, launch creative on a tight timeline, and any moment when the brand message has to land precisely the same way every time the ad runs.
Every scripted shoot, every time.
The deliverable list is the same baseline, packages differ on volume, hook variants, and turnaround.
- Edited videos in vertical 9:16
- Captioned and uncaptioned versions of each video
- Hook variations on every hero video
- Raw footage
- Ad-account-ready exports
- One-year ad-usage rights (paid + organic)
- Actor releases
- On-camera brand direction
From brief to ad-ready in as little as 5–10 days.
Recent scripted work.
The other path is unscripted street interviews.
If you don’t have a script and want real strangers reacting on camera, no actors, no rehearsal, the unscripted approach might fit better.
Common questions about scripted.
How is "scripted" different from a regular commercial?
Why pick scripted over unscripted?
Do the actors feel like real people?
Can we approve the script before the shoot?
How many videos do we get?
How fast is turnaround?
Ready to ship a scripted hero ad?
Real people. Real reactions. Real ad creative.