# Reaction-panel repost — rebuild sheet

A barbershop clip the poster didn't shoot, running under a talking cut-out panel of the poster himself — 27.16s, 1,694,406 views, 65,356 likes, posted by obo_lines. Caption: "Make Una calm down ooo 😂😂😂#barberlife #talk #barber #plsviral"

**Why it works** — The borrowed clip is given the whole frame first, so the viewer is already invested in the device and the haircut before a single word of the poster's arrives. Then the panel drops in and stays: a real face laughing at what you are also looking at is faster proof that this is worth watching than any caption, and it costs one phone and a flat wall to shoot.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
|---|---|---|
| 2.17s | Borrowed clip full-frame, no panel. A black-gloved barber lowers a domed black hair-dryer/steamer helmet (copper band, red LED strip) onto a seated client with an afro, cape on. Shot into the shop mirror — all signage reads reversed. | none |
| 6.52s | Same clip. The dome is seated on the head, gloved hand still on it; a man on the waiting bench is on his phone, cut hair on the tiled floor. | none |
| 10.86s | The barbershop image goes to a held still — a head with deep 360 waves and a fade fills the foreground, a barber crosses behind. A hard-edged rectangular panel of a man chest-up in a grey printed tee and cross chain is composited over the lower centre, mid-word to the lens. | none |
| 15.21s | Background frame identical to the last beat — nothing in the barbershop advances. Panel drifted slightly; the man is mid-sentence, mouth open. | none |
| 19.56s | Identical held background. The panel man is laughing, eyes shut. | none |
| 23.9s | Identical held background. Panel back toward centre; the man is talking again, straight-faced. | none |

**What carries the value** — The talking panel. The barbershop clip supplies the spectacle — the dome device, the finished waves — but the payoff is the man's face and voice, and once it arrives it never leaves the frame. There is no text anywhere in the video doing any work; the line lives in the post caption.

**What the frames do not show** — I cannot hear the audio, so whether the panel is loose commentary or a scripted bit is unknown; the frames only show him talking and laughing. The first two beats show a client with an afro under the dome and the last four show a head with waves — the frames never show a transition between them, so whether that is the same client after the treatment is unconfirmed. Whether the background is a deliberate freeze-frame or footage that happens to be near-static is inferred from four sampled beats being identical, not from the full clip.

**Shoot it**

- Two pieces, shot separately. Piece one is the borrowed clip — footage you did not shoot, given the full frame with nothing on top of it for the first third.
- Piece two is you: phone on anything at chest height, arm's length, chest-up framing, plain wall behind you, flat even light straight at your face — no window flare, no room styling, nothing behind you to look at. Talk straight into the lens.
- Cut yourself out and paste that panel over the lower-centre of the borrowed frame. Leave the rectangle's edges visible — the seam being obvious is part of why it reads as a repost rather than a production.
- Freeze the borrowed image the moment the panel arrives, and leave it frozen. Nothing behind you should move or compete.
- Never cut to yourself full-frame. The panel arrives and holds to the end.
- Wardrobe: whatever you'd wear anyway — a printed tee and a chain here. No set, no props, no branding on you.
- Zero on-screen text. The line goes in the post caption, in your own voice, with the laughing emoji.

**Or generate it**

```
vertical 9:16 composite. Background: a single held still frame of {SUBJECT} seated in a real
barber-style chair with {PRODUCT} being used on them by an operator in black, filmed into a wall
mirror so all signage in frame reads reversed; shopfront window with street and parked cars behind,
wall sconce, waiting bench, tiled floor, ordinary overhead interior light mixed with grey daylight
through the glass, phone-camera look, slight grain, no retouching. Composited over the lower centre
of that still: a hard-edged rectangular cut-out panel of a man chest-up in a plain printed t-shirt
and a thin chain, talking straight to the lens, flat even light on a plain wall inside the panel,
panel edges left visibly rectangular. No on-screen text anywhere.
```

*Motion:* the background is completely frozen — a still frame, nothing in it advances for the whole stretch; only the composited panel moves, the speaker talking and laughing, the panel itself drifting a few percent in position between beats.

*Text overlay:* none burned into the picture at any beat — the words live in the post caption instead: `{spoken punchline, in the creator's own voice} 😂😂😂 #{topic} #{niche} #{plsviral}`

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