# Reaction-panel repost — rebuild sheet

A two-minute repost: someone else's clip of a woman washing in a bare tiled bathroom runs the whole way while the poster's talking cut-out sits pinned in the frame and is never cut to. 120.02s · 335,694 views · 5,544 likes · @marvingoodly.

**Why it works** — The borrowed footage does all the watching-work: it is a real life, unstyled and unresolved, and the viewer stays to see where it goes. The pinned face is what converts it from a repost into an argument — he is visibly present the entire time without ever taking the frame, so his verdict rides on footage he did not have to earn.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
|---|---|---|
| 9.6s | Locked composite. Borrowed handheld clip: a blonde woman in a pink floral robe bends over a basin on a small tiled bathroom floor — stained wall above the tiles, toilet beside her, hose across the floor. A small cut-out panel of the poster (long braids, plain dark tee, mouth open mid-speech) sits lower right. | none authored — only the clip's own `@VALERIABLOND13` watermark, lower left |
| 28.8s | The borrowed clip cuts to a second room in the same home — patterned wall with framed pictures, wooden table, a pot on a stove. The woman stands holding a large clear plastic bag. The panel is unchanged, same place, same size. | same watermark |
| 48.01s | Back in the bathroom, the woman at the basin with a shower hose. The panel has stepped up in size — chest-up across the lower centre, mid-sentence. | watermark now upper right |
| 67.21s | Identical composite. The woman still at the basin; the panel man mid-speech, different mouth shape. Neither band has moved. | same watermark |
| 86.41s | Identical composite. The woman leaning further over the basin; the panel man still talking. No cut to him, no cut away. | same watermark |
| 105.62s | Identical composite at the last frame. Still no on-screen resolution and no on-screen call to action. | same watermark |

**What carries the value** — The borrowed footage: a real woman's real conditions, running unbroken with nothing explained. The poster's pinned face is what makes it his; the footage is what makes it watchable.

**Not shown by the frames, so not claimed here:** there is no audio in a contact sheet, so what he actually says is unknown — the mouth is open and differently shaped at every sampled beat, which is why this reads as a monologue rather than a silent reaction. Six stills across two minutes also cannot tell you how many cuts the borrowed clip makes between them, or whether the panel is on screen before 9.6s. Nothing on screen credits the source beyond that visible watermark.

**Shoot it**

- Two bands, one composite, and neither ever moves. Lock the panel first: phone on a stand, front camera, chest-up, arm's length, one plain room, one continuous take of you talking for the full runtime. No reframing, no cuts, no standing up.
- Key it out or crop it to a rectangle and paste it low in the frame over the borrowed clip. In the source it starts small in the lower right and steps up once to lower-centre about a third of the way in — one size change, then never again.
- The borrowed band is whatever camera the source was shot on. Do not stabilise it, grade it or crop its watermark out; the fact that it is plainly someone else's footage is what makes it read as found rather than staged.
- Light: nothing lit. The source clip is bare overhead bathroom light; your panel wants flat, even indoor light with no ring-light look.
- Wardrobe: plain and unbranded on the panel — a single dark t-shirt, nothing to look at. Anything styled competes with the footage, which is the one thing that must hold attention.
- Zero on-screen text. Every word of the claim and the ask goes in the post caption — here: `Don't save her from the trenches` / `DM "APP" if your dating life doesn't match your success.`
- Sourcing is the real cost, not the shoot. This needs a clip strong enough to hold two minutes on its own, and permission or credit is your call to make before posting.
- **Needs a person on camera.** There is no cutaway, no b-roll and no text to hide behind — the panel is one unbroken take of someone talking. That is the one part of this format you cannot fake.

**Or generate it**

```
vertical 9:16 locked composite, upper two-thirds a borrowed-looking handheld clip of {SUBJECT} in a real unstyled interior — tiled walls, worn paint above the tiles, plain overhead light, another creator's small watermark in the corner — lower third a cut-out chest-up panel of the commentator in a plain dark t-shirt, seated close to a phone front camera in a plain room, soft even indoor light, mouth open mid-sentence, {PRODUCT} in reach on the surface beside them, both bands locked and identically framed at every beat, phone-camera look, slight grain, no retouching, no on-screen text
```

*Motion:* both bands absolutely static — the commentator panel is a fixed front-camera frame that never moves, never reframes and is never cut to, while the borrowed band plays on with its own handheld camera; generate the panel from the same seed at every beat so the only thing changing in the composite is the footage behind it.

*Text-overlay pattern:* none authored. The borrowed clip's own `{@source_watermark}` is the only text on screen at any point. The claim and the ask live in the post caption: `"{claim line}"` / `DM "{KEYWORD}" if {condition the viewer recognises in themselves}`.

**Reference:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DcJNYgUuja2/
