Road Safety Video

[cv01jw]

Apologies if this is a repost, but I have just been shown this video by Gwent Police:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDOmwjgKBcI&fea...

I think it is very good, particularly bearing in mind the target audience. Any thoughts?

[p1esk]

cv01jw said:

Apologies if this is a repost, but I have just been shown this video by Gwent Police:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDOmwjgKBcI&fea...

I think it is very good, particularly bearing in mind the target audience. Any thoughts?

Any thoughts?

Yes, it is silly nonsense. I watched the first 90 seconds then abandoned it, so any merit it may have had beyond that point was lost on me. I do not support the use of these contrived and overly dramatised portrayals of the hazards of driving, or anything else, for that matter. IMHO they are largely a waste of time and effort.

Tell me a straight story about what we need to look out for and avoid, and I'll try to take account of that and benefit from it, but I will not bother with this style of approach.

Best wishes all,
Dave.

[waremark]

It is a magnificent piece of drama - extraordinarily impressive.

It is vital to persuade youngsters of the importance of road safety. Towards that end, they have to realise that the car is a deadly weapon, and that driving involves immense responsibility. The very graphic and heartrending detail of the accident and its aftermath may be a powerful weapon here. I am very encouraged by the responses under the video, many of which obviously come from young people.

My main concern is that it should not be seen solely as a warning against texting; I hope youngsters watching this video will associate the consequences with any form of carelessness or recklessness.

As it happens, I did not understand what the first scene in the video, of the girl's nightmare, contributed.

[Evangelion]

Didn't understand the need for the first bit either, but was very impressed by the rest. Think I might download that and put on the laptop to show any of my pupils who think they can text safely while driving.

Have also found this one, an insight into how they did it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgHwY5Prtd8&NR=...


ETA - just found this, this is real though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCHdZxO4_tQ&fea...

Edited by Evangelion on Tuesday 17th November 10:21

[Nigel Worc's]

waremark said:

It is vital to persuade youngsters of the importance of road safety.

Ohhhhhh yessssss, couldn't agree more

waremark said:

they have to realise that the car is a deadly weapon, and that driving involves immense responsibility.

Oh FFS, you've just lost your target audience.

(just in my opinion of course)

[7db]

waremark said:

My main concern is that it should not be seen solely as a warning against texting;

The image that lives on in my mind (now many weeks since I saw the video) is the second impact, side-on.

If there's a point to this video, it's that someone died as a driver was following too close to stop in the distance they could see to be clear.

[Nigel Worc's]

I find the video quite hard hitting.

I'll show it to my little girl who passed her test yesterday, and let you know what she says.

Just as an experiment

[Nigel Worc's]

The result from my daughter.

tears in her eyes.

The message she took was "keep your eyes on the road"

She thinks its a very "bad" video, and "they" shouldn't show things like that.

[waremark]

Nigel Worc's said:

waremark said:

they have to realise that the car is a deadly weapon, and that driving involves immense responsibility.

Oh FFS, you've just lost your target audience.

(just in my opinion of course)

What do you mean? You are my target audience. The target audience of the vid is teenagers.

I emailed the link to the just passed 17 year old daughter:

"Why would you make me watch that?! I’m like sobbing. I never want to drive again!!!! Incredible video though."

None of my kids could work out why they included the nightmare bit at the beginning.

7db - I fear most would miss the 'not being able to stop' aspect.

[Nigel Worc's]

waremark said:

Nigel Worc's said:

waremark said:

they have to realise that the car is a deadly weapon, and that driving involves immense responsibility.

Oh FFS, you've just lost your target audience.

(just in my opinion of course)

What do you mean? You are my target audience. The target audience of the vid is teenagers.

I emailed the link to the just passed 17 year old daughter:

"Why would you make me watch that?! I’m like sobbing. I never want to drive again!!!! Incredible video though."

None of my kids could work out why they included the nightmare bit at the beginning.

7db - I fear most would miss the 'not being able to stop' aspect.

I'm most certainly not your target audience, I'm a 48 year old IAM senior obsever, if I don't know the message you're trying to get across by now, I'm a lost cause.

My daughter says that talking about a car as a deadly weapon etc would make her not bother listening to whatever else you have to say, because she hears it so often, and is sick of hearing it.

You and I both know they don't have to listen.

What she is most interested in just now, oddly I think, is anything to do with driver training.

She's passed her test, is excited about that, but is also a bit frightened ..... which I suppose is good !

Edited by Nigel Worc's on Tuesday 17th November 16:13

[7db]

Nigel Worc's said:

I'm most certainly not your target audience, I'm a 48 year old IAM senior obsever, if I don't know the message you're trying to get across by now, I'm a lost cause.

Given your comments on your other threads (the roundabout and feedback threads) it does strike me that you are quite defensive about your driving standard and seek to justify your existing behaviour rather than to criticise and improve.

Perhaps Mark's message might not get across, but for a different reason than the one stated.

Such is life.

[waremark]

Nigel Worc's said:

What do you mean? You are my target audience. The target audience of the vid is teenagers.

I don't understand why you don't understand me Nigel. We are violently agreeing here. I am using the term 'responsibility' in talking to you, a stripling at 48 Senior Obs. We are I think in agreement that this is hardly an attractive buzz word to teenagers. Hence the need to make them realize their high level of responsibility without talking to them in terminology which is a turn-off. And this is one of the things which the video sets out to do. Agreed?

[p1esk]

7db said:

Nigel Worc's said:

I'm most certainly not your target audience, I'm a 48 year old IAM senior obsever, if I don't know the message you're trying to get across by now, I'm a lost cause.

Given your comments on your other threads (the roundabout and feedback threads) it does strike me that you are quite defensive about your driving standard and seek to justify your existing behaviour rather than to criticise and improve.

Some people have the same feeling about me. It's not entirely true, but I feel I'm entitled to my view (and my "over-confidence") after all this time - and so is Nigel.

I'll listen to the feedback I get, then I'll measure it against what I believe in, and then we'll see what happens; but what I will not do is immediately ditch my own ideas in favour of new input - wherever it comes from.

Edited to own up to being a stripling of 69, going on 70.

Best wishes all,
Dave.

Edited by p1esk on Tuesday 17th November 18:56

[Nigel Worc's]

7db said:

Nigel Worc's said:

I'm most certainly not your target audience, I'm a 48 year old IAM senior obsever, if I don't know the message you're trying to get across by now, I'm a lost cause.

Given your comments on your other threads (the roundabout and feedback threads) it does strike me that you are quite defensive about your driving standard and seek to justify your existing behaviour rather than to criticise and improve.

Perhaps Mark's message might not get across, but for a different reason than the one stated.

Such is life.

Hmmm ok, that wasn't what I was trying to achieve, or indeed lead you to believe.