# Self-demo, screen verdict — rebuild sheet

A man films himself fixing his own thinning hair in his bathroom mirror under one line that never changes, and closes by holding a scored app readout to the lens. 173,252 views · 1,436 likes · 61.67s · by guntherdagreat.

**Why it works** — He opens on the worst possible view of himself, the back of his own head with scalp showing through, which is a thing nobody fakes and nobody volunteers unless the ending is real. The pinned line makes one flat promise and then never argues again, so every beat is the viewer checking the promise against his head, and the app score at the end lets something other than him deliver the verdict.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
|---|---|---|
| 4.93s | From behind, chest height: he stands with his back to the lens in a mint-green bathroom, crown and back of head short, sparse, scalp visible through the curls. Grey long-sleeve tee, spotted. | Thin hair fix ✅ |
| 14.8s | Same vantage from behind. He pulls a black wide-tooth comb up through the back of his hair — wet, dark, lying flat. Face never shown. | Thin hair fix ✅ |
| 24.67s | He turns to the lens, three-quarter, chest-up, a step closer. Hair on top is now a dense curly mass. Finger raised to his hairline, brow furrowed, deadpan. | Thin hair fix ✅ |
| 34.54s | Chest-up, facing slightly past the lens. White hair dryer held at his left ear, cord hanging down, other hand lifting hair at the side. | Thin hair fix ✅ |
| 44.4s | Wider and plainly into a mirror — he is holding a phone up. Now in a black t-shirt, so this beat was shot on a different day. Hair is a full, high, round afro, clearly bigger than at 4.93s. | Thin hair fix ✅ |
| 54.27s | Tight, back in the grey long-sleeve. He holds a phone flat to the lens showing a dark hair-analysis app: "Hair Health", four small photo thumbnails, "Scalp Health — Healthy", then a 2×2 score grid reading Minimal / Minimal / Moderate / None on green and orange bars, SAVE and SHARE buttons below. | Thin hair fix ✅ |

**What carries the value** — The hair itself across the runtime: the scalp-through-the-curls crown offered from behind at the open, against the full high afro in the mirror at 44s. The app score at the end is the verdict on it, delivered by something that isn't him.

Two things the frames do not show, and you should not fill in: **no product appears anywhere in the video** — no bottle, no label, no application step on camera; the only place the thing being credited exists is the post caption, "the @basedbodyworks curly duo". And the stills carry no audio, so whether he speaks over any of this is unknown — there are no speech captions on screen either way.

Also honest: the wardrobe changes (grey long-sleeve → black tee → grey long-sleeve), so this is at least two shooting sessions cut together, not one take. He never breaks deadpan and never performs.

**Shoot it**

- **Camera** — a phone, handheld, shooting into a bathroom mirror. Do not lock it off; the frame moves deliberately across the six beats: behind him → behind him again → three-quarter to the lens → front → wide mirror selfie → tight on the phone screen. The first two beats being from *behind* is the whole opening move; a front-on start throws away the worst-state reveal.
- **Light** — flat, even daylight from the room's own window. No lamp, no fill, no colour. Nothing in the light changes between beats, which is what makes the change in the hair readable rather than arguable.
- **Room** — one bathroom, used and unstyled. A strong flat wall colour behind the head helps enormously here (his is mint green) because the silhouette of the hair is the measurement.
- **Wardrobe** — plain, no logos, nothing that pulls the eye up. Rule: whatever is worn must not compete with the head, and the neckline should be low and simple so the hairline and shoulders read clean.
- **Performance** — none. Deadpan, no smiling, no talking to camera. The only acting is the pointed finger at the hairline.
- **Casting** — this one you cannot get around: it needs a real subject whose surface genuinely changed, and their own app readout at the end. That is why it is marked not replicable without talent — not because it needs a performer, but because it needs a real body and a real result.

**Or generate it** — the payoff beat (44.4s):

```
vertical 9:16 phone photograph shot into a bathroom mirror, {SUBJECT} standing squarely to the mirror in a plain black t-shirt, holding a phone up in one raised hand at head height so the phone is in frame, hair a full high rounded volume, framed from mid-thigh up, mint-green painted wall behind them with a recessed ceiling light, an open doorway to a bedroom with a made bed visible on one side and a curtained window on the other, flat even daylight with no visible lamp, slight grain, no retouching of the skin, no on-screen text — no product in shot, since the source video never shows {PRODUCT} on camera; if you want it in frame, stand it unopened on the counter edge at the bottom of the mirror
```

*Motion:* handheld into the mirror, no cuts and no zoom — the subject holds still and only the raised phone hand moves, the framing wide enough that the whole silhouette of the hair reads against the plain wall.

*Text overlay:* one line in a white rounded box, bold black sans, top-centre, identical size and position on every single beat and never changing — `{Problem} fix ✅`

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