# Pinned-headline monologue — rebuild sheet

A 65.8s piece to camera: one man, one chair, one room, one locked frame, a threat headline pinned over him the whole way and a numbered list of fixes running underneath. 610,109 views · 27,097 likes (shrug.manny).

**Why it works**
The headline states a bad outcome the viewer already fears and never leaves the screen, so every sentence he speaks is read as a step away from it. Numbering the fixes turns the runtime into a list the viewer has to stay to finish — and because the frame never changes, the argument is the only thing that can hold them, which is exactly why the headline has to be the strongest line in the piece.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
|---|---|---|
| 5.27s | Locked medium close, chest-up: man seated in a dim home room, panelled door and a small wall shelf behind, dark quarter-zip, big studio mic standing in the bottom-left foreground. Mid-sentence to the lens. | `How to not get hacked when vibe coding your app` (pinned) + `1. Exposed API keys` |
| 15.8s | Identical framing. He raises a pen beside his face, still talking. No cut, no reframe. | Headline only |
| 26.33s | Identical framing. A white definition card is composited into the lower half of the *same* frame — he is never cut away from and does not change size or position. | Headline + `2. Input Validation` + `Input validation is the critical process of ensuring only properly formatted, expected, and safe data enters a software system. It acts as a security barrier, preventing malicious input from triggering` |
| 36.86s | Identical framing, eyes down, mid-sentence. Nothing in the room has changed. | Headline + `"Sanitize all user inputs"` |
| 47.4s | Identical framing. A stacked list of four service names sits over his chest, in the same lower-third zone the numbered labels used. | Headline + `Clerk / FIREBASE / Supabase / Auth0` |
| 57.93s | Identical framing, hand and pen raised at frame right, smiling as he talks. Same door, same shelf, same mic, same light as frame one. | Headline only |

Two honest gaps: the sheet is six stills across the runtime, so anything between them is unknown — there may well be a third numbered item, or rolling speech subtitles, that no sampled beat caught. And the two beats marked "headline only" show no lower-third *at that instant*; that is not proof the lower-third was empty for the surrounding seconds.

**What carries the value**
The pinned threat headline plus the numbered countdown running under it. The viewer stays to collect all the items. The borrowed definition screenshot and the stacked list of named services supply the authority a talking head on its own could not — they are the only evidence in the piece, and both are pasted into the frame rather than cut to.

**Shoot it**
One camera, one setup, and do not touch it again. Sit chest-up, square to the lens, in a real room with something plain and readable behind you (a door, a shelf) — not a set. Warm frontal light on the face, room falling off dark behind; a desk lamp or a window in front of you does it. A visible mic in the bottom of frame is part of the look; leave it in shot. Plain dark top, nothing patterned. Talk straight through in one take: no cuts, no second angle, no reframe, no B-roll, nothing held up to camera. The whole edit is the text you lay on top afterwards — the headline goes on at frame one and never comes off; the numbered items and any evidence card drop into the lower third and change on the beat.

**Or generate it**

```
vertical 9:16, {SUBJECT} seated chest-up in a dim home room, panelled door and a small wall
shelf visible behind them, plain dark quarter-zip top, a large studio microphone standing in
the bottom-left foreground, talking straight to the lens mid-sentence, soft warm frontal light
with the room falling off dark behind, phone-camera look, slight grain, no retouching, nothing
held or displayed to camera — the frame carries no product, so {PRODUCT} appears only in the
on-screen text, no on-screen text
```

*Motion:* camera absolutely locked for the whole runtime — same distance, same angle, no cuts and no reframe; only the speaker's head, hands and pen move, so generate every beat from the same seed frame.

*Text overlay:* two centred lines pinned in the top third, unchanged from first frame to last — `How to not get {BAD OUTCOME} / when {ACTIVITY}`. Under it, one changing lower-third per beat: `{N}. {NAMED FIX}` for each numbered item, a quoted rule `"{RULE}"` on its own, and a stacked list of `{TOOL NAMES}`. Nothing is pinned except the headline.

**Reference:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DVUFs9ykc8_/
