Haha, hilarious! Nice ideas, although I'm not too fond of the idea of making it 3D, which, in my opinion, makes it look cheap and less funny than if it were acted.
Also, in your silly comparisons, you only mentioned speed, althought we should also mention ergonomy, although I can't think of a comparison for that at the moment, but I'll try to. Then, to compare colemak to dvorak, we could perhaps say you wouldn't want a car where you have to steer with your feet and break and accelerate with your hands! (i.e. something totally different to what you're used to.)

I would love to do the narrations, but I'm not sure that my voice is appropriate! (I think it's weird) But I'm quite good at making british accents [snobby and proletarian ;)] and of course a german one. Also, I can make an indian, a japanese and a fake borat accent, although I'm really not sure where this comes handy for a cmk movie! (Perhaps a 'superior' queen's english voice for dvorak?)

I also totally agree, that the ad should be funny, otherwise no-one will even care to go to colemak.com for a glance.

Ah - topic necromancy. I think this was from a very creative phase on these forums - nowadays it's more about optimizing algorithms and learning 5 progressively crazy layouts at a time.  ;)

I haven't seen either of our creative friends up there in the longest time, unfortunately. I miss them both.

Clever. What's with the Hs and carets?

We need some actors. I can get working on a script, when I have the time.

or it could be an animation video.

or a cartoon by that guy that did the one for Google on Chrome.

of course their already is a cartoon out there for Dvorak.

I think that Colemak may be best served by not so actively promoting it. The general consensus is that we are all noisy fanboys and a video advert posted anywhere would only reinforce that view. It reeks of desperation to my mind. Think about it. I mean really, why bother?

I first heard of Colemak via Capsoff.org. I then forgot all about it for several months. When I searched for Dvorak or Alternative keyboard layout (or whatever it was), I found this site and it was this site that persuaded me to commit my time to learning the layout.

Even if you were to run a commercial on prime time TV, most people would (probably) not be in the slightest bit interested...

Edit: The most productive thing to do is write blog posts and comments directing people to the colemak site as I have done:

http://www.simonharrison.net/blog/2008/ … n-colemak/

I too think it'd be fun and cute and not dangerous to do. (And I also think it'd be hard to pull off, but best of luck to anyone who tries.)

The "noisy fanboys" sarcastic phrase came up in debates such as the Michael Kaplan one where there was a bit of a quarrel going on. Never in my experience has it come up in relation to overly enthusiastic positive focusing on Colemak. To avoid the accusation of fanboyism, I think therefore that jammycakes is dead on: Noisy good (per se), belligerence bad.

Even the otherwise diplomatic Jammycakes appears to get a tad tetchy when too many people with a message post it on his blog:
https://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/ … 39024.aspx
http://jamesmckay.net/2008/06/alternati … /#comments
(Hmmm... the only overly noisy character I could spot in that debacle wasn't a Colemak supporter at all. Go figure.)  :)

Heh, that video actually made me think twice about the TypeMatrix! The goofy music I could probably live with, but those gridlines turning into orthogonal hash lines made me think up the slogan "TypeMatrix - if you have square hands!". No idea whether the TypeMatrix is a really good idea or not but that's the feeling I got. Now I think that rows should have stagger - just not the way the standard layouts use them (with the left-hand stagger going in the wrong direction).

Any point to this post? If any, it'd be that a video needs to be well thought-out for all sorts of audiences. Maybe that one is and I'm the odd viewer who got the wrong idea as opposed to all the others, but still.