Air New Zealand "Hobbit" safety film
Air New Zealand/WETA
If you're a routine flyer, the most tedious part of the whole process is watching the safety demos. Air New Zealand has changed all this.
Featuring a cameo appearance from New Zealand's greatest natural resource, Peter Jackson, and put together by WETA, the now legendary CGI and VFX facility, this four-minute piece must have had the biggest production budget in safety film history.
A nice touch is the Hobbit-like language: "If an oxygen mask should fall before you…"
David is the Managing Editor of RedShark. He's been a professional columnist and author since 1998, when he started writing for the European Music Technology magazine Sound on Sound. In his day job, David has worked with professional digital audio and video for the last 25 years.
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