Unregistered wrote:First hit on google for narrative...."A narrative or story is a construct created in a suitable format (written, spoken, poetry, prose, images, song, theater, or dance) "
I know what narrative means, I did english lit at university, I'm just not sure why you want to apply it to technology demo videos.
Do you look for narrative in DVD player manuals and cereal ingredients lists? Bus timetables? Wardrobe assembly instructions?
The narrative is: plug the phone into the TV, switch on the keyboard, play the games.
The unfolding of the keyboard which you made fun of is to show just how portable Bluetooth keyboards are. If you've used one you'll know this, but most people haven't used one and often assume a full-size keyboard is too big to carry in a pocket.
All those words that eventually popped up while we had to watch things load were too widely spaced, with some judicious editing that could have been half as long and just as informative.
I don't have any control over loading times, if Ovi is slow then it's slow. As I said you can use YouTube instead, and vice versa.
The reason the words are there is to make it easier to understand for people who don't speak english.
The vast majority of people who use N-Gage and Nokia phones are from outside English-speaking countries. I know from direct feedback that many such people find it difficult to understand a narrator or dense text. They find it easier to understand simple written english, just as anyone would when encountering a foreign language.
3:12 to get to some gameplay footage is truly self indulgent!
I don't know why I bother really, there's always someone who finds something to complain about.
This video took me about six hours to do including the filming, editing, rendering and uploading, and you're getting it for free. It took ages just to get the TV to show up on the video camera properly.
You could at least be a bit more constructive in your criticism and a bit more appreciative of other people's labours, especially when you've paid nothing for it.
Other things I'd like to have seen touched on were using the free options for input e.g. RockNscroll/nokmote
It's just meant to be a simple demo video for one specific technology which many people are unaware of. We're not a TV company, we don't get any kind of income from any of these videos, we don't have any professional video-making equipment.
But there's actually a good reason for keeping technologies separate which is that it's easier to update separate videos. If the method for doing TV Out changes (for example there has been talk of doing it wirelessly), this is the only video that needs to be redone.
the sound quality as I can't hear it over the muzak (sic) supplied
There is no sound from the gameplay as my all-I-can-afford camcorder isn't good at picking up ambient noise, it has a constant buzzing when using its microphones. In any case, compilations of short clips from games is much better with one soundtrack over it instead of brief snatches from the games themselves.
and the future potential for the 3d chip upscaling to higher resolutions in future firmware releases/ graphics chip revisions.
How on earth is ANYONE meant to do THAT on a YouTube video?