# Pinned-panel screen monologue — rebuild sheet

A 2:22 talk-over: someone else's Instagram post is screen-recorded and held on screen for the entire runtime while the poster's own face, cut out and pinned in the bottom-right corner, argues over it — 84,239 views, 1,337 likes, by marvingoodly.

**Why it works.** Leaving the borrowed post whole — the other account's photo, their caption, their like counts, even the app's nav bar — makes it read as an exhibit somebody is reacting to in real time, not as content that was made to sell you something. The pinned corner face then does all the persuading in speech, so the viewer is listening to a case being argued about a real thing on screen rather than watching an ad, and because nothing on screen ever changes there is no visual event to wait for — only the argument.

**The beats.** Six stills sampled across 142.06s. They are, to the eye, the same frame six times: no cut, no push, no reframe, no second location, and no progression of any kind.

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
|---|---|---|
| 11.36s | The locked composite is already established: full-frame screen recording of another account's post — a bearded, tattooed man in a white tee and black shorts standing behind a woman with long dark hair in a black long-sleeve top and black trousers, plain white seamless studio backdrop — with the app's furniture left in shot. A small cut-out of the poster is pinned lower-right, chest-up, mid-sentence. | "_itskiley Plot twist Adam was the upgrade ✨ @adam22" |
| 34.09s | Identical framing. The borrowed photo shifts very slightly in pose; the corner cut-out has not moved, mouth still open. | same, unchanged |
| 56.82s | Identical framing. The poster's head turns a little in the panel; nothing else changes. | same, unchanged |
| 79.55s | Identical framing. Past halfway and the video still has not cut away from its opening frame. | same, unchanged |
| 102.28s | Identical framing. The woman's stance reads a fraction differently — the only variation anywhere in the sample. | same, unchanged |
| 125.01s | Identical framing. The composite never resolves and never hands the frame to the poster. | same, unchanged |

Said plainly, from the frames alone: **there is no authored on-screen text anywhere.** The only words visible are the borrowed post's own interface — the caption line "_itskiley Plot twist Adam was the upgrade ✨ @adam22", the timestamp "28 minutes ago", the audio strip "Drake · Burning Bridges", and the counts 1,825 / 303 / 32, which belong to the *borrowed* post and are not this video's numbers. Two things the stills cannot settle: whether the borrowed post is a short looping clip or a held photograph (the pose barely moves between frames), and what the poster is actually saying — his mouth is open in all six frames, which is evidence of continuous speech and nothing more. The words are not on screen and the audio was not read.

**What carries the value.** The unbroken spoken argument over an exhibit that never changes. Someone else's post is left on screen whole as the thing being talked about; the pinned face is the person making the case. Nothing is demonstrated, nothing is written, and the offer lives in the post caption — "DM me 'APP'" — never in the frame.

**Shoot it.** Two recordings, composited.
- **Layer one:** open the post you want to talk about on your phone and screen-record it full screen. Do not crop the app's interface out — the other account's handle, their caption and their counts are what make it read as found rather than made. Do not scroll and do not zoom; let it sit.
- **Layer two:** front camera on yourself, chest-up, static, and talk the whole argument in one unbroken take — this runs 2:22, so it is a monologue, not a soundbite. Flat, even indoor light; plain dark t-shirt; no set, no props, no gestures that leave the small frame.
- **The composite:** the poster's layer is background-removed and pinned in the lower-right, overlapping the bottom of the borrowed image. It never moves and is never cut to at full size. Add no text of your own. Put the claim and the DM keyword in the post caption.
- Needs a person who can hold a two-minute argument on camera — this one does not work without a talker.

**Or generate it.**

```
vertical 9:16 phone screen recording composite — the full frame is another
account's Instagram post open in the feed, showing a single held photograph of
{PRODUCT} against a plain white seamless studio backdrop, with the app's own
interface left visible around it (audio strip and Follow button along the top,
like/comment/share counts, the original poster's caption line beneath, bottom
navigation bar); pinned over the lower-right of that image, a small
background-removed cut-out of {SUBJECT}, chest-up, mid-sentence, plain dark
t-shirt, flat even indoor light, phone front-camera look, slight grain, no
retouching, no authored on-screen text
```

*Motion:* both layers absolutely static for the whole runtime — the screen recording holds on the same post with no scroll and no zoom, and the corner cut-out never moves or reframes; the only movement anywhere is {SUBJECT}'s face and shoulders as they talk.

*Text overlay:* none authored. The only words on screen belong to the borrowed post's interface — `{original poster handle} {their caption} @{tagged account}`. The written pitch goes in the post caption instead: `{one-line claim about the audience}. {Who it is for} have built everything except {the thing they want}. I rebuild {the things you fix} so {outcome}, DM me "{KEYWORD}".`

**Reference:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DZPvl-Cw5TV/
