Path 2 · Unscripted

Unscripted street interviews. Real strangers. Real reactions.

No script. No actors. We stop real strangers on the street and ask real questions. The reactions are what you ship. Highest trust ceiling in the format, longest durability in an ad account.

Trusted by 600+ brands
When to pick unscripted

If trust is the lever, this is the lane.

Unscripted is the right pick when the audience needs to see a real person say it before they’ll believe the brand says it. Repositioning, skepticism-heavy categories, trust-led launches.

Slower per usable beat than scripted, you can’t direct a stranger. But the trust ceiling, and the ad-account longevity, are in a different class.

Best for

Three signals you should go unscripted.

01
Trust-led campaigns
Skeptical categories, social-proof-driven verticals, anywhere the audience needs to hear it from a real person first.
02
Repositioning a category
When you’re trying to shift how people think about a product type: real reactions move the needle that polished ads can’t.
03
Highest watch time
Cold-traffic ad accounts where retention is the bottleneck. Unscripted delivers the longest hold per dollar spent.
How it stays real

How we preserve authenticity on an unscripted shoot.

Unscripted only works if the strangers on camera are actually unprompted. We never feed answers, never cast in advance, and never ask people to do another take with a different opinion. What you see is what was actually said the moment the question landed.

The trade-off is variance. Some strangers light up the camera. Some don’t connect. We over-shoot , talking to ten to twenty people for every one we use, so the final cut is built entirely from genuine, on-brand reactions. The variance becomes the asset, because the moments that survive are the moments viewers trust.

What unscripted captures that scripted can’t: real objections the audience also has, real surprise, and category insights from people who don’t know they’re saying something a brand will use. That’s the kind of social proof that holds up in an ad account for months, not weeks.

What you get

Every unscripted 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)
  • On-the-ground production with permits
Process

From brief to ad-ready in as little as 7–14 days.

01Step 1
Strategy
Goals, audience, platform mix, hook lanes. We figure out what an honest stranger could say that would land for your brand.
02Step 2
Question design
We design questions so genuine answers naturally land on-brand. You approve before we shoot.
03Step 3
Casting & shoot
Real strangers, real environments. Permits handled. Multiple looks, multiple lanes, multiple voices captured.
04Step 4
Edit
Hook variations plus captioned and uncaptioned versions of each video. Built for TikTok, Reels, Shorts, and Meta.
05Step 5
Delivery
Edited videos, raw footage, captions, ad-account-ready exports. Full ad-usage rights for one year from purchase.
Examples

Recent unscripted work.

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Reconsidering?

The other path is scripted street interviews.

If you have a script ready (or want us to write one with you) and need a hero ad on a tight deadline, the scripted approach (actor-led, brand-controlled) is the faster path.

FAQ

Common questions about unscripted.

What makes "unscripted" different from a regular street interview?
No script, no actors, no plants. We stop real strangers and ask real questions. Their reactions are what you ship.
Why pick unscripted over scripted?
When trust is the conversion lever, repositioning a category, defusing skepticism, or running cold paid where social proof has to do the lifting. The ceiling on watch time is the highest in the format.
Isn't this slower?
Per usable beat, yes, you can't guarantee any given stranger will land the message. We plan for that. We capture more, edit harder, and the variance becomes the asset, not the problem.
How do you protect the brand if you're not scripting?
Two ways. We frame the questions so honest answers still land on-brand, and we cut around moments that go off-brand. Brand approves every clip before publishing.
How many videos do we get?
20+ edited videos per shoot day, plus captioned and uncaptioned exports and raw footage. Hook variations are available as a paid add-on.
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