# Split-screen mechanism verdict — rebuild sheet

A 42s locked two-band video: a music-making session recorded off the screen up top, the maker sat at his desk on webcam below, and one lowercase brag — "someone call drizzy" — pinned across the seam for the whole runtime. 1,776,766 views · 125,191 likes (a 7% like rate). Posted by prodclaz; the caption is only "w/ @thedylanhyde".

**Why it works**

You see the claim and the person making it in the same second, so the work in the top band is doing the arguing while the line just sits there as a verdict nobody has to defend. Because the frame never changes and the maker never reacts, the only thing moving across 42 seconds is the session filling up — which reads as proof he actually made it rather than a boast about it.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
|---|---|---|
| 3.4s | Locked composite established. Top: the arrangement window, audio tracks and waveforms, tracks named "[vocal] LET ME LOVE YOU 140 dylanhyde" and "100_SEBH_-_Ambience". Bottom: him in a green printed tee, glasses, headphones, leaning back with both hands behind his head — mic on a boom arm overhead, patterned wall, clothes rail of hanging shirts, red chair edge. | someone call drizzy |
| 10.19s | Same frame exactly. He has come upright, arms down, face flat. | someone call drizzy |
| 16.98s | Top band switches to the piano roll — window titled "Piano roll - DecentSampler", green notes across it. Bottom band identical. | someone call drizzy |
| 23.77s | Back on the arrangement, the vocal track still there, a "Pattern 2" block now at the lower right. He's looking down at the desk. | someone call drizzy |
| 30.56s | Top band: a big audio clip named "let_me_love_u_136_claz_dylan" opened full width with its waveform, pattern blocks under it. | someone call drizzy |
| 37.36s | Arrangement again, now with green pattern blocks laid across the right of the timeline — visibly more built than the opening. Same flat face. | someone call drizzy |

Not visible in the stills: the audio, which is the actual payoff of this video and the thing the whole structure is built to deliver. The stills also can't tell you whether there are cuts between these six moments, whether the line ever moves or fades, or whether his face reacts at any point in between. The collaborator named in the caption never appears in frame — the only trace of him is the file names in the session.

**What carries the value**

The real working session in the top band visibly building across the runtime — arrangement, then piano roll, then the named vocal chop, then a filled-out timeline — held under one unchanged brag line, while the face below never sells it. The evidence is the work; the line is the verdict; the deadpan is what keeps it from reading as a pitch.

**Shoot it**

- **Two bands, both locked.** Screen recording fills the top two-thirds, webcam fills the bottom third. Neither one moves, zooms or reframes for the entire runtime — no cuts away, no second angle.
- **Camera:** a laptop or desk webcam at seated eye level, square-on, chest-up. It is deliberately a webcam, not a phone rig — the low-fi look is part of the credential.
- **Light:** whatever is in the room. Here it's dim flat indoor daylight with no fill. Do not light it.
- **Room:** his actual workspace, untidied — the mic arm hanging into frame, a clothes rail with shirts on it, a patterned wall. The mess is evidence that this is a real session.
- **Wardrobe:** plain printed t-shirt, headphones on the whole time, no styling. Rule: nothing he wouldn't already be wearing.
- **Performance:** none. He is not presenting to the lens. He leans back on the first beat and sits flat for the rest. If someone performs, the format breaks.
- **Text:** one lowercase line, white with a soft shadow, sitting on the seam between the two bands. Set it on frame one and never touch it again.
- **The top band must be genuinely yours.** The whole mechanic is that the person below made the thing above. Borrowed footage up there is a different format.

**Or generate it**

```
vertical 9:16 locked composite, upper two-thirds a full-bleed screen recording of {PRODUCT} filling a desktop window, dark interface with coloured blocks and waveforms across a timeline; lower third a fixed webcam frame of {SUBJECT} seated chest-up in their own small bedroom, headphones on, glasses, plain printed t-shirt, a microphone on a boom arm hanging into the top of the band, patterned wall behind and a clothes rail of hanging shirts at one side, dim indoor light, laptop-webcam look, slight grain, no retouching, both bands locked and identically framed at every beat, no on-screen text
```

**Motion:** both bands absolutely static — no zoom, no reframe, no cut away for the whole runtime; the only movement is the work advancing inside the top band and small idle shifts from {SUBJECT} below. Generate every beat from the same seed so the lower band matches exactly.

**Text overlay pattern:** one lowercase line pinned across the seam between the two bands, set on the first frame and never changed — `someone call {authority}` — a flat brag naming the person the work supposedly deserves, never explained and never answered in words.

**Reference:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DankbcYNA24/
