Story about real life sidequests from @joinwabi

The creator introduces a real-life 'lore' competition he started with a friend, demonstrates the custom app he built to track their 'side quests', and explains a specific challenge to see a volcano. He then details the obstacle of his friends being employed and unavailable to travel, shows his problem-solving process of adding local regions to the app, and concludes with a dynamic montage of their successful local side quest going fossil hunting in the rain.

Creator: @joinwabi on Instagram

Video format

Vlog

Video outline

  1. Establish high-concept challenge
  2. Introduce real-world obstacle
  3. Pivot to accessible alternative
  4. Prove alternative is superior

Hook overview

The High-Stakes Premise: Introduce a unique, time-bound competition with a specific, intriguing metric to instantly capture attention and set the narrative stakes.

Verbal hook

See three weeks ago me and my friend Jake started a competition to see who could get the most lore in thirty days.

Visual hook

The creator abruptly thrusts a large physical whiteboard reading 'THREE WEEKS AGO...' directly into the camera lens, immediately followed by a creative stop-motion chalkboard animation using paper cut-out faces.

Hook strategies

  1. curiosity-open-loops
  2. transformation-payoff

Payoff

The Superiority Resolution: Visually prove that the accessible, scaled-down alternative delivered a better, more authentic experience than the original impossible task, leaving the viewer with a satisfying emotional takeaway.

Narrative framework

The Gamified Pivot Blueprint

Narrative framework logic

Hook viewers with a high-concept, gamified challenge, introduce a relatable real-world obstacle, and pivot to a scaled-down, emotionally resonant alternative that proves to be superior.

Narrative framework breakdown

  • frameworkName: The Gamified Pivot Blueprint
  • frameworkType: Standard Narrative
  • coreLogic: Hook viewers with a high-concept, gamified challenge, introduce a relatable real-world obstacle, and pivot to a scaled-down, emotionally resonant alternative that proves to be superior.
  • confidence: 95
  • pendingStatus: created

Topics: Friendship, Lifestyle, App, Travel

Concepts: Challenge, Journey Documentation

Formats: Vlog

Elements: Dynamic Word-by-Word Captions, Montage Editing, Prop-based Text Reveal

Account types: Personal Brand

Transcript excerpt

See three weeks ago me and my friend Jake started a competition to see who could get the most lore in thirty days. Me. Me. Me. Me. And I made an entire app to track our score and give us side quests. But last week I got a side quest to see a volcano. I live in London. Now I good have booked a cheap flight to Italy and see Mount Vesuvius, but when I asked my friends if they were free, they're all implored. For me, the best part of side quests is doing it with friends. So I came up with a solution. Get new friends. Regions. I added three better. Local, national and global. So I didn't go to a volcano better we did manage to get a group of friends to go fossil hunting in Whitby instead because seeing the volcano would have been cool better our reaction to finding a fossil on a rainy beach? Yeah. Much cooler.

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