I’ll be the first to tell you that video reviews are hard. There’s a delicate balance between keeping things brief, yet informative and trying to make it all entertaining, yet… well, also informative.
Add to that the multiple takes (if you wing it, like most of us do here) or the amount of time it takes to write a script, plus editing the thing down to a manageable size, rendering it, and uploading it to YouTube, and you’ve spent an entire afternoon on what amounts to a short, unprofessionally produced video that most people will never watch.
If you actually manage to get all the right pegs to fall into all the right holes from the pre- and post-production angles, there’s still the on-camera presentation — a very important and oft-overlooked piece to the video puzzle. Some people are naturally good in front of a camera, some aren’t. Some of it can be coached, most of it can’t.
Then there are the anomolies, like the above video (and anything reviewed by DiiFii). I won’t critique anything contained within the video — it appears to be a school project, after all — except to say that I watched all 8:54 of it and was greatly entertained while actually learning something at the same time. And at the end of the day, that’s the entire point.
[via SlashGear]
That is one painful watch.
I laughed. I cringed.
I laughed again. I cringed again.
Hey, looks like the guy gave it his all. Good job and superb effort.
I’m from Poland… you have no idea how hard it is to watch this :) (hope he’s not speaking like that in real life)
It looks like he is doing this video from inside a secret polish arms bunker or something. Geez, he could have tapped out morse code faster than telling us about it.
Another Polish speaker here… @paralityk: painful as hell, but at the same time: I praise his perseverance and, honestly, if this was a school project (English class?), then let’s cut the man some slack! It was probably never meant to see the light of the day…
He took on a difficult subject (technical language, presentation skills etc.) and he succeeded, even if it was a bit choppy and un-steve-jobs-like.
Come to think of it… Ain’t that the perfect antithesis of the reality distortion field? The unsteve is Polish and he’s alive!
think this was painful try this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGzDrLKNu18
Doug — a quick props to you. You have the best video reviews on any gadget blog. They seem honest, not too long/short, and are funny. You really should do more of them. I have the soda water maker because of you….and it rocks.
Better try that :)
Polish guy trying to sing in english.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykl5JcK8xw8
Im from Poland and my opinion is: scenery rocks :D :) :)