# Screen-record walkthrough, face inset — rebuild sheet

A 36s vertical by @nomadatoast: a laptop glowing in a dim room, then raw screen capture of the tool being driven step by step, then back to the laptop for the payoff — 15,054,303 views, 87,786 likes.

**Why it works**
The opening line is an unfinished promise ("beginners can sell 3D sites like this now. I'll show you") laid over a finished result you can already see running on a real laptop, so the viewer stays to close the gap between the claim and the proof. The middle is unedited screen capture — real dialogs, a real pasted url, a real model picker — which is unfakeable in a way a polished demo reel is not, and the small face inset supplies a person to trust without ever taking the screen away.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
|---|---|---|
| 2.91s | Real room. Laptop open on a plain desk, handheld from desk height slightly above and left. Warm orange lamp glow on the bare wall behind; everything else in shadow. A hand enters from the bottom edge onto the trackpad. The screen fills the frame with a dark 3D site — a glitching, dissolving portrait head, and the line "Over one million curious people". No face inset yet. | "I feel useless... begginers can sell 3D sites like this now. I'll show you." |
| 8.74s | Same room, tighter and lower, keyboard in frame. Screen now shows a different dark 3D site: chrome "StringTune" lettering with pink and purple particles. A small talking-head inset appears at the bottom — a man, dark curly hair and beard, cream open-collar shirt, bright window behind him. | Sticker still up · plus "GRANDMA CAN" |
| 14.56s | Full-frame screen capture, room gone. A dark dialog: repository picker reading "...c Repository", a green "Connected" pill with the hand cursor on it, "Select Branch", "Select a repository firs" dropdown. Opening sticker is gone. Inset still at the bottom. | "IF NEEDED." |
| 20.39s | Screen capture of an AI builder prompt box: big "What w[ill you build]" heading, "Full Stack App" / "Mobile App" buttons, MP4 and TXT file chips attached, a pasted url `https://fine-n7vljkp34f.peachworlds.com/` with the cursor sitting in it, a model chip reading "Claude 4.7 Opus". Inset still there. | "WEBSITE LINK." |
| 26.22s | Screen capture of a video-generation panel: a "GENERAL / Kling 3.0" card with a Change button over a basketball-dunk preview, two thumbnail options, a "Multi-shot" toggle, and a prompt block — "Cinematic transformation, organic motion, continuous evolution from frame 1." — with START: and END: sections. Inset still there. | "AI VIDEO" |
| 32.04s | Back to the real room and the same warm lamp glow. Laptop on the desk, screen filled with an iridescent chrome 3D object on a colour-gradient page ("...tracking ...fits real life"). In the inset the man raises a hand toward camera. | "LITERALLY SELL" |

Only the overlay text is listed above. The words inside the dialogs and prompt boxes are the app's own interface, not captions — described in the shot column so you know what to record, not text to recreate.

**What carries the value**
The unfaked screen capture of the tool actually being driven, bookended at both ends by the finished 3D site glowing on a laptop in a dim real room. The room shots are what make it an object on a desk instead of a screenshot; the capture in the middle is the receipt.

**Shoot it**
Two setups, a phone and a screen recorder. No performance required.

- *Setup A — the desk shot (beats 1, 2 and the last beat).* Laptop open on a plain desk. Phone handheld, vertical, at desk height and slightly above-left, close enough that the screen fills most of the frame. Your hand comes in from the bottom edge onto the trackpad. Don't cut — let it drift.
- *Setup B — the screen capture (the middle).* Record your actual screen, cropped vertical. Whatever you claim at that moment has to be visible on screen at that moment. Don't cut inside a step; cut between steps.
- *Light.* One warm lamp on the wall behind the laptop, room otherwise dim, so the screen is the brightest thing in the shot. For the face inset, sit with a window behind or beside you — soft daylight on the face.
- *Wardrobe.* Plain, unbranded, light open-collar shirt. Nothing dated, nothing logo'd. The clothes are not part of the sell.
- *Text.* Opening sticker — black on a white box, top third, three short lines — holds over the first beats then drops for good. From there a small all-caps caption at the bottom, one short spoken phrase at a time, changing every beat.
- *Face inset.* Small window at the bottom of frame, present from the second beat onward, never covering the part of the screen you're pointing at.

*What the frames don't show, and I'm not going to invent:* there is no audio in a contact sheet, so I can't confirm there's a voiceover or music — the bottom captions are shaped like burned-in speech captions ("GRANDMA CAN", "IF NEEDED.") but the stills alone don't prove a voice track. The sticker disappears somewhere between 8.74s and 14.56s; the exact point isn't sampled. The inset isn't visible at 2.91s but I can't tell whether it fades in or was simply outside that frame. Nothing between the six sampled moments is known — no cut count, no transitions, no closing CTA card. The comment gate ("Comment AI for the link") comes from the post caption, not from anything on screen. The opening line is spelled "begginers" in the frame; that's transcribed as-is, not corrected.

**Or generate it**
The beat worth generating is the first one — the laptop in the dim warm room. Everything else is a screen recording and should be captured, not generated.

```
vertical 9:16 phone photograph, a laptop open on a plain wooden desk in a dim
domestic room, {PRODUCT} filling the laptop screen as a live web page,
{SUBJECT}'s hand resting on the trackpad entering from the lower edge of frame,
a warm orange lamp glow washing the bare wall directly behind the laptop, the
rest of the room in shadow, the screen the brightest thing in the shot, camera
at desk height slightly above and to the left, shallow depth of field, slight
grain, no retouching, no on-screen text
```

*Motion:* handheld and near-static at desk height, a slow drift toward the screen while the hand moves on the trackpad — the laptop screen stays centred and stays the brightest thing in frame, no cuts.

*Text overlay pattern:* opening sticker held over the first beats, black text on a white box in the top third, three short lines — `{feeling}... {audience} can {outcome} now. I'll show you.` Then it drops and a small all-caps caption sits at the bottom, one spoken phrase per beat — `{PHRASE}.`

**Reference:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DXhCmYajj_X/
