It's a majorly epic scale

Compared to the other videos we've done, we've got multiple people, multiple locations

We've got Sir Peter Jackson involved, Weta workshop

What's really neat is that Air New Zealand continues to out do themselves with every new safety video

and they'll always make it fun

This Air New Zealand flight safety video is going to be the most epic of all time

I thought that a lot of the Hobbit films were CGI and just completely faked in computers

and it turns out that it's just the way the South Island looks, it just looks fake

You just stand there and you just are totally surrounded by this enormity of the granduer

I just love it down there, I love filming down there, I love just being there

Flying in to Queenstown is just amazing

Coming through the mountains and you land and around you is just this great wall of mountains

We are in the lovely Queenstown and this morning we're up very early, to start at four o'clock

and put into process the whole prosthetics deparment. All our dwaves and orcs are up first

Compared to the actual filming of the movie, it is like a mini version I suppose

These are the actual armour and weapons that were used in filming the Hobbit

And right now we're putting on the chain mail

Queenstown Hill is my favourite location because we were working with all the orcs and the elves

That was absolutely breathtaking!

and just having the Remarkables, Coronet Peak and all these amazing mountains around you was just surreal

It was quite different sitting down having lunch with the orcs and the hobbits and the elves

You kind of expect a big fight to break out between the two

You just feel like you're in a bit of a dreamland sometimes

Action!

Dean! Give me a ride! Dean O'Gorman! The Hobbit's changed you bro!

It feels incredible to back at Hobbiton. It's become a pretty massive part of my life

I have a long relationship with Air New Zealand

Its the gateway, getting on that plane is so familiar to me, its this gateway to this place that I love so much

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I think its brilliant that they use their real flight attendants

Nice to be Hobbiton

We pride ourselves on being personable real people onboard

and not only for us its a nice day to get out of the office but also a great opportunity to have the experience

of shooting on location, of meeting different people and seeing how all these bits and pieces are put together

I have met Elijah Wood. He's beautiful

We locked eyes. I'm excited to work with him

We've had rain, we've had hail, we've had snow, we've had wind, freezing

Yeah, its been great!

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You know it looked fantastic, it was one of those things that is the reality of being in New Zealand

Whether you're a tourist or a shooting crew, you have to deal with the rain sometimes

Throw on your wet weather gear and tuck in

We're here on the Kawarau River bungy bridge

Working alongside the first commercial bungy operation in the world

There's an element of the unknown. He hasn't done a bungy before and I'm sure there will be first time jitters

I'm just a bit worried I'm going to forget to tuck my chin under and look at the water and break my face

THREE, TWO, ONE, JUMP

Top man

I'm Matt Mueller and I'm with Weta Digital. We're doing the visual effects on this Air New Zealand safety video

You know with visual effects you can do almost anything

That may be doing a sky replacement or adding a Ruskerville rabbit or adding a whole army

There's a lot of people who worked on the Hobbit that are back for more on this shoot

The shots that will be handed over to Weta Digital to take care of start at the bridge

Dan, the actor, drops the ring and so we have to add in a digital ring

because when you drop a real ring they usually don't behave the way you want them too

The scene with Richard Taylor in it was started on Queenstown Hill

with the seat, an orc and a flight attendant with the horn behind him and of course the beautiful landscape

When we got to Wellington we had to shoot Richard Taylor and he'll be shrunk down to fit into the seat

The orc has to put an oxygen mask on Richard Taylor

So there'll also be an element of just the arm reaching in to cover his face and leave the mask

And when its all cut together it should like it was all one big shot at the same time

even though its from four or five different places

I do love it. Yeah, this is a great job. It's fantastic and we get to shoot in beautiful locations all over New Zealand

It's been absolutely fantastic

Today we're here at Monkey Studios in Wellington

recording the flute and the drums for the Air New Zealand safety video

It's sounding great

Really wanted to put a full orchestral feel behind it. It just brings an energy and a life to the music

Putting a real person behind an instrument suddenly the music comes alive

The piece was called the most epic safety video ever, so you kind of have to go there

Well no matter how big, how creative, how epic the video gets

at the end of the day the most important part is the safety

and how we translate those safety messages for our passengers

Air New Zealand have been very supportive to us

You know these movies aren't made by a film company, they're made by a nation of people

Kiwis are the best

I've had some of my best experiences making films here and so much of that had to do with the Kiwi ingenuity

It kind of bound everyone together and it was filled with that sense of the New Zealand spirit

Its A) an advertisement for New Zealand

B) an advertisement for Air New Zealand

and C) a practical way to make people pay attention

Very clever Air New Zealand. Props to you

We've also got actors that love to see their faces on the side of planes too. They get such a big thrill out of that

That's a wrap everyone. I hope you enjoyed it