[Android General] levander:
I would just have the two turned-off phones sitting askew across a paper print-out of a Motorola logo. Like a print-out with your ink-jet printer. The more garish and happy the logo looks (garrish and happy is how I would describe things like a McDonald's road sign, with the golden arch's over a bright red banner that says "McDonald's")... the more garish and happy the logo looks, the more sarcastic I think you come across. I like sarcasm. You've got their bright, happy logo and you're sitting their bashing them. Something funny about that in my mind.

Plus, the logo adds some color to an otherwise dull shot. Without the logo, it's just a camera shot of two turned off phones.

But I liked the visuals of the dark room when the phones are booting, so all you have is the light from the phones. There's no underlying purpose for this. I just liked the way it looks.

Yeah, I'm like that too. Such a waste of time waiting for people to beat around the bush to find out what they really think. Although sometimes, just being nice no matter what's going on is appropriate... I knew there was something I liked about you when I saw that first video.

You do what you're comfortable with. It's your video. I'm just offering you opinions that hopefully you use to your own advantage. Even if you don't use any ideas I propose, if my saying something ticks something in your head and makes you think of something else you want to do, I'm happy with that.

The stuttering and stammering and getting ahead of yourself I thought was fine in the first video. This is an amateur video. It's going to look weird if you try to hard and make it perfect. It's like people always telling you to be yourself. No lies or exaggerations will ever be as interesting as who you really are. Honesty is a lot more interesting than anything else.

What I'm comfortable with when I have a bunch of items I want to cover, is I just make a list of bullet points. LIke I just cancelled my contract with AT&T (see other thread I just started. These were my bullet points:

1.) Ask to cancel, say I already know about termination fee

2.) Tell them I know it's not AT&T's fault, but Verizon did get their customers a $100 rebate

3.) They're not gonna offer a good deal

4.) Confirm how much the early termination fee is

5.) Confirm they'll prorate the monthly bill for this month

6.) Ask how the bills will come and when they'll be due.

And last, when you do Take 3, why don't you start a new thread? We are completely hijacking this thread and the other guys have their SupportMyMoto campaign going on in here that I really wonder if we're stepping on this point. We're talking more about how to make a video than just how bad Motorola sucks. Although I hope somehow that Motorola gets how bad they screwed up in their head. Their enthusiast community is now conspiring to make them look bad...

Note that the hijacking is as much my fault as it would be yours. I'm not trying to flame you about it.

If you turn the phones on pretty quick at the beginning of the video, that removes worrying about a shot with just two turned off phones and the logo thing we were talking about becomes moot. That's not a complaint, just saying you don't have to worry about it if before turning on the phone only takes maybe 10 seconds...

---------- Post added at 03:16 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:07 PM ----------

Look man, your first video was fine. The only problems were it was too long (we've talking about stuff to cut-out), the opening shot was just shadows in the darkness and was creepy and it lasted 45 seconds - that's too dry of a visual for that long, and you didn't make it clear at the very beginning that this was a test of start up times in an attempt to disprove Motorola's claim about ICS being too slow. We want to know why the hell we're watching this from the get-go, like a newspaper article tries to make its first paragraph attention getting.

The high point of the first video was you talking about this and that, interrupting yourself to point out some progress of the test, then going back to whatever the hell you were talking about before. It was even kind of funny how you were doing that. You'd be talking, then stop and go "geez, this thing is still booting", then go back to what you were talking about before.

---------- Post added at 03:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:16 PM ----------

What the hell does ostrich mean? You are Aussie? That is an Aussie expression?