N900 Videos

The bride’s wedding was messed up because the groom and his best man were offline as the venue change happened.

In this followup, Sally gets her revenge on “John and the boys” for turning up at the wrong venue.

She tells them they’re probably wondering why they didn’t get their groomsman’s gifts, and that’s because she still has them and is about to auction them on eBay.

Sally signs off with “Bye bye boys, and happy shopping.”

Groomsman’s gifts? Not in my day there weren’t.

This is another of Nokia’s viral N900 videos, designed to show the perils of not being online all the time.

The habitual loser is about to finish up at work. He has been designated to camp overnight outside the stadium, to be sure of getting the best tickets for the game of the year. He collects payment from his co-workers, and gives the thumbs-up to assure them that everything is under control.

He arrives at the stadium as night is falling, and settles down in his sleeping bag together with a bunch of other fans.

Next morning he wakes as a dog licks his face. An expensive pair of Nokia headphones hang from his head. Looking around, all he sees is two friendly homeless people, but behind him we can see that “sold out” has been slapped onto all the posters.

An N900 appears in the foreground, with the multitasking screen showing. A thumb brings the web browser to the foreground and we see it’s displaying soccernet.espn.go.com which shows a soccer ball, the word “FINAL”, and the message “Tickets sold out online”. If only the loser had been online as it was happening.

The music is “Chasing Time” by Alan Pownall.

Nokia’s viral marketing department has released a series of videos based on the theme of a loser who always gets things wrong because he’s not constantly online.

In this video the loser is John, the Groom’s “best man”. The movie opens with John asleep after the stag night (”buck’s party”), together with the groom and their mates.

The landline phone rings. John wakes and stumbles over his mates to answer it. We don’t hear the message, but it must be that they are late for the wedding. Better hurry!

John wakes the others. There’s a general panic. The groom has had his chest hair shaved into a smiling face, and the hair superglued onto someone else’s face as a beard. Hurriedly they sort themselves out, doing the final preparation in the limousine ride to the church.

Outside the church they pause only to pick some flowers for their buttonholes, before racing into the church and taking their places as if nothing has happened.

There’s an uneasy silence, with members of the audience looking around uncomfortably. Something’s not right! Then the “real” groom and best man walk in. John and the others turned up at the wrong church.

As they race out of the church, an N900 appears in the foreground showing a chat between a Bruce Harrison and a Judith. They’re wondering whether John, the best man, got the message that the venue had changed. If only he had been online as it was happening.

The music is Chasing Time by Alan Pownall.

There is also a sequel: Sally’s revenge.

These viral videos from Nokia revolve around a common theme—”offline as it happens”. In this video, a loser has gone fishing in his little boat and fallen asleep.

Suddenly dozens of fish start leaping out of the water. One even leaps into the bucket on his boat, but still the loser sleeps. A fleeing flock of birds flies noisily overhead, ahead of a blazing meteor leaving a smoky trail.

Finally the fisherman awakes and looks around, in a daze. In the foreground someone slides open the keyboard of an N900. We see a picture of the meteor, being geotagged and having the “fun” tag added, before being uploaded to the cloud.

The unseen operator of the N900 was “online as it happened”, unlike the luser.

The snatches of music in the video are from Chasing Time by Alan Pownall.