Some people say it is a bad idea to add a bit of levity to airline safety videos.
I disagree.
Here’s the latest version of the safety video from Turkish Airlines, which has enlisted fast-cut filmmaker and YouTube sensation Zach King to encourage you to watch the action very closely.
How does he do that???
Here’s Air New Zealand’s newest safety video. This one doesn’t have nearly naked airline staff as stars, or Hobbits, but instead stars actors from Hollywood.
“Safety in Hollywood” stars comic actress Anna Faris (from the CBS show “Mom” and the “Scary Movie” franchise) and New Zealand actor and comedic legend Rhys Darby (from “Flight of the Conchords”). S
Take a look:
The summer Olympics in Brazil don’t kick off until August, but United Airlines – which has been flying Team USA athletes to training events and competitions for more than 35 – has a new Team USA-themed safety video ready to spring into action on May 1.
The video features appearances by star athletes including decathlon champion Ashton Eaton, swimmer Missy Franklin and others who will compete in gymnastics, weightlifting, soccer, basketball, swimming and other Olympic events, as well as (very) fleeting glimpses of Nessie the Sea Monster and the llama from previous videos.
On a special Team USA section of the United Hub website, fans can also view behind-the-scenes footage, photos and interviews taken during the making of the new video and watch a short video filled with travel and packing tips offered by United crewmembers and athletes. Ashton Eaton is a fan of packing cubes, Missy Franklin is, not surprisingly, a big advocate for staying hydrated, and trampoline athlete Logan Dooley’s favorite packing method evidently involves shoving everything into a suitcase and sitting on it until it can be zipped.
Elisabeth Rohm American Heart Association Kiosk at DFW Airport, Friday, January 22, 2016. Photo by Brandon Wade
Travelers with time on their hands at the airport can learn how to use those hands to save lives.
The American Heart Association and the Anthem Foundation are installing Hands-Only CPR (HOCPR) training kiosks in five major airports – with the first kiosk debuting today at O’Hare International Airport and the rest set to roll out by mid-March at Indianapolis International (IND), Las Vegas’ McCarran International (LAS), Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) and Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI) airports.
These kiosks join the pilot kiosk installed in 2013 at the Dallas/Ft. Worth International Airport (DFW) by AHA and American Airlines Occupation Health Services.
Each Hands-Only CPR training kiosk has a touch screen with a video program that gives a brief “how-to,” followed by a practice session and a 30-second CPR test on a practice manikin, or a rubber torso. The kiosk provides feedback about the depth and rate of compressions and proper hand placement – the key factors that influence the effectiveness of CPR.
Why is taking a few moments to learn CPR more important than having another airport cupcake?
Because each year more than 359,000 cardiac arrests occur outside the hospital and more than 20 percent (71,200) occur in public places such as airports.
Given the wacky one-upmanship airlines are into these days with their safety videos, it’s refreshing to see one airline resort to a cool use of art and animation.
KLM called on the Delft Blue artists to help make a new safety video that will be shown on intercontinental flights starting November 1.
To make the film the safety instructions were translated into a series of Delft Blue-style illustrations, which were sent to a digital animator, who turned them into the series of images that would end up in the animated video. Those images were painted onto more than a thousand Delft Blue tiles and photographed using the stop the stop-motion technique to create the video.
This short film shows that process.
KLM has a long history with the Delft Blue design. Since 1952 the airline has been giving out miniature Delftware houses to World Business Class passengers on intercontinental flights.
The Delft Blue miniature houses are copies of real houses from throughout the Netherlands and the collection now includes 96 models.
