Using children's voices on safety briefs
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Now ANZ in for some stick. The Independent | Video
Is this a mistake - or carefully planned to generate more (free) publicity?
Is this a mistake - or carefully planned to generate more (free) publicity?
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The concept of using children's voices for safety briefings is rumoured to have been the brain child of Sergei Chaliapin, Director of Aeroflot, and Director General in Russian State Information Technologies. He's held the post since about 2007/8 and is a devoted family man of great probity. He was asked to design a concept which would help distinguish paedophiles from passengers in the run up to the games at Sochi and for the benefit of Russian society as a whole. His solution was to incorporate a series of sensor in the arm rests of the seats on Aeroflot aircraft and then, by routing children's voices through the aircraft PA system, to be able to measure the electronic tinglings of delight of each passenger as he or she became aware of the childlike voices. These readings could, as in a lie detector, be fed to a central computer within the aircraft system which would enable the seat number of anyone who registered a suspicious reaction to be reconciled with their name on the load sheet. Thus the purported paedophile could be a marked man or woman at destination and dealt with accordingly.
Unfortunately perhaps, the technology for the broadcasts themselves has been used by other airlines. But in the absence of the original screening equipment, the likes of Air New Zealand do not possess the sophistication to put the announcements to the use for which they were originally intended. There was a suggestion a couple of years ago that the New Zealand government had approached the Russians with a view to recording some trial announcements in a baa like reproductive tone.
Unfortunately perhaps, the technology for the broadcasts themselves has been used by other airlines. But in the absence of the original screening equipment, the likes of Air New Zealand do not possess the sophistication to put the announcements to the use for which they were originally intended. There was a suggestion a couple of years ago that the New Zealand government had approached the Russians with a view to recording some trial announcements in a baa like reproductive tone.
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cavcheet You are, as always, a mine of information. Possibly sourced from the salt mines in those long years of your incarceration for crimes against Moderators ... 
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On a personal note:
i would rather watch a catchy video with kids, and actually absorb the safety announcement rather than having to switch off from listening to the monitone voice of the Cabin manager/Chief Crew Member/Head Trolley Dolly droll on and on for an age until I fall into a deep comatosed snooze....
So 1 vote for the small people....
i would rather watch a catchy video with kids, and actually absorb the safety announcement rather than having to switch off from listening to the monitone voice of the Cabin manager/Chief Crew Member/Head Trolley Dolly droll on and on for an age until I fall into a deep comatosed snooze....
So 1 vote for the small people....
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Having reused this thread to keep related points together - we got thread drift as we watched the cheetah streaking across the horizon...
I quote from the article headline:
I quote from the article headline:
Air New Zealand's latest in-flight video has been criticised for being 'highly sexualised' after praise for previously creative publicity.
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I seem to recall a study that claimed people paid more attention to a child's voice than an adult's, especially the children who were listening. We all know kids don't listen to us adults so at least they could benefit from this 
And really, if a child can do this then as an adult you'd better be able to handle it too or you'll lose all your 'adult credibility'- the psychological side of this. As important as it is to get the message across to everyone, I'm for doing whatever might make the system work better, within reason, and with all the commenting going on it's obvious that people are paying attention to the message so I'd say this approach is working 
I'm not concerned about there being some kind of connection to Pedo's here, for just as with everything else these days any incident becomes hugely over-hyped as the paranoid people gain their audience, which takes things far beyond reasonable sanity and makes me wonder about that person's mental stability. When the rare incident does occur there needs to be an iron-fisted approach, but really- these incidents are rare compared when thought of in the context of how many times it does not happen with adult-child interactions. Wondering what doing that math would bring; perhaps 0.000001%? So yeah, it's a big problem when it happens but it isn't something to get paranoid about, just something to be aware of and watch for on the same level as keeping kids from playing with liquid mercury or from eating lead-based paint chips
Bad adults will find a way to do their evil deeds and until we can find a fool-proof way to identify them before they act we can't stop them until laws are broken. And especially with this kind of evil adult, there's a huge number of people looking for them behind the scenes these days so while we hear more of the incidents, I'm of the mind that probably fewer actual incidents are occurring since everybody knows they're being watched closely already, and that is how it should be.
So if having kids in the presentation is better for the many then let's do that. And if we see someone reacting inappropriately to this, then watch them closely and if you feel it needs to happen, then let authorities know of your concerns. And if you actually see someone doing evil with children, I for one will turn a blind eye to you for taking direct action to make that stop in whatever manner you may deem appropriate- I'll even help you if you like Methinks it would help matters to see news reports of mangled corpses being found by the Police with "Pedo" carved into their foreheads and somehow I doubt that the Police would find too many of us 'culprits' in that 'crime' when they during their investigation they discovered what the dead person had been doing but won't be doing any more
And really, if a child can do this then as an adult you'd better be able to handle it too or you'll lose all your 'adult credibility'- the psychological side of this. As important as it is to get the message across to everyone, I'm for doing whatever might make the system work better, within reason, and with all the commenting going on it's obvious that people are paying attention to the message so I'd say this approach is working I'm not concerned about there being some kind of connection to Pedo's here, for just as with everything else these days any incident becomes hugely over-hyped as the paranoid people gain their audience, which takes things far beyond reasonable sanity and makes me wonder about that person's mental stability. When the rare incident does occur there needs to be an iron-fisted approach, but really- these incidents are rare compared when thought of in the context of how many times it does not happen with adult-child interactions. Wondering what doing that math would bring; perhaps 0.000001%? So yeah, it's a big problem when it happens but it isn't something to get paranoid about, just something to be aware of and watch for on the same level as keeping kids from playing with liquid mercury or from eating lead-based paint chips
Bad adults will find a way to do their evil deeds and until we can find a fool-proof way to identify them before they act we can't stop them until laws are broken. And especially with this kind of evil adult, there's a huge number of people looking for them behind the scenes these days so while we hear more of the incidents, I'm of the mind that probably fewer actual incidents are occurring since everybody knows they're being watched closely already, and that is how it should be.So if having kids in the presentation is better for the many then let's do that. And if we see someone reacting inappropriately to this, then watch them closely and if you feel it needs to happen, then let authorities know of your concerns. And if you actually see someone doing evil with children, I for one will turn a blind eye to you for taking direct action to make that stop in whatever manner you may deem appropriate- I'll even help you if you like
Methinks it would help matters to see news reports of mangled corpses being found by the Police with "Pedo" carved into their foreheads and somehow I doubt that the Police would find too many of us 'culprits' in that 'crime' when they during their investigation they discovered what the dead person had been doing but won't be doing any more
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I see that I should have started another thread ... the words 'highly sexualised' are NOTHING to do with children in safety videos by ANZ.
If you do look at the article: The Independent | Video and watch the video this is about grown ups!
If you do look at the article: The Independent | Video and watch the video this is about grown ups!
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I've always thought famous people doing the briefings, with a selection of a few videos so you have a mix up of who you get on your flight would work well. Would appeal to all ages and because it wouldn't neccessarily be the same celebs on each video you'd be more likely to watch to see who you were getting. Obviously they'd have to be high profile to be most effective.
