Compare And Contrast Don T Play With Trains

Both Don’t Play with Trains a television advertisement by Sa Government Rail Safety Campaign and Dumb Ways to Die a viral advertisement are successful advertisements for trail safety. The television advertisement Don’t Play with Trains was produced to show that trains might cross a crossing even when they are not schedule to because schedules can change. “Train schedules can change, watch the signs and never enter a crossing unless you are absolutely sure that your exit is clear, you should never assume that there is no train coming.” This Television advertisement helps get the message across with the voice overs as well as the powerful visual effects, such as when the train hits the cars and you hear the impact meanwhile the cars completely …show more content…
Don’t Play with Trains and Dumb Ways to Die have used different approaches and styles to get their messages across, “Don’t Play with trains” and “Be safe around trains”. Don’t Play with Trains by SA Government Rail Safety Campaign shows the audience two different scenarios, one with two friends in a car ride talking and not really paying attention to their surroundings and another with a mother and two children leaving school when she stops on a rail crossing behind a track. The two friends don’t realise that the train is heading straight towards them until it’s too late, while the mother and kids see it coming but can’t do anything but panic as the track in front of them is blocking the exit. Dumb Ways to Die by Metro Trains in Melbourne was originally released on YouTube on the 14th of November 2012 to promote train and rail safety and currently has over a 120 million views. This viral advertisement shows twenty one different characters dying in dumb ways. The most important ones being the last three about train related deaths, namely “Stand on the edge of a train station platform, drive around the boom gates at a level crossing, run across the tracks between the