First Audience Will See the Safety and Prevention Movie “You Won’t Make It! 2”
10.09.2018
Inattention, bragging or needless hazard are the most common causes of serious injuries of children and young people on the railway or in its Immediate surroundings. Merciless statistics show that a considerable number of such events still ends with permanent consequences or even fatalities. Správa železniční dopravní cesty (SŽDC) and České dráhy (ČD) have been appealing for many years already for observing all rules and regulations, A new safety and prevention movie “You won’t make it! 2” has its premiere today and will help both organizations in the field of prevention concentrating especially on pupils and high school students.
This unique student movie on safety and prevention with a characteristic title “You won’t make it!” was prepared in cooperation of SŽDC and ČD; its premiere was aired in March 2015. This feature document acquaints the public with basic rules of safety on the railway and its neighbourhood, informs on dangerous behaviour and shows its possible fatal consequences. Although the stories are fictional, the film is very emotional and impressive because each story is based on real events which happened on the railway. In more than three years, thousands of students from the whole Czech Republic saw it as part of the Prevention Train for a Safe Railway.
The sequel of this project under the name “You won’t make it! 2” is going to be very similar – it offers a movie adaptation of real tragic accidents which happen on the railway to teenagers and unfortunately still repeat, such as e.g. walking on tracks, often with earphones, moving in the trackage outside premises designed for passengers, taking shortcuts by crossing the rails, looking for adrenaline experience or ignoring warning signs at railway crossings.
The target group of the movie are especially teenagers. Using “their” way of speech will emphasize the stories’ overall impression and thus the prevention effect of the project. Using modern means of communication is precisely one from the components which makes the new movie different from its predecessor. Both young people and children communicate today more and more often through mobile phones and create various posts on social networks. These amateur videos are often of a very high technical quality and constitute now a common way for teenagers to express themselves. Acted scenes recorded in a normal way alternate with personal testimonies of the main stories’ protagonists shot in a way to imitate selfie videos or directly shot as “selfies”.
”It will be a great success if this movie helps to decrease the number of tragic accidents on the railway where young people are involved. I would like to appeal not only to young people to pay maximal attention near the railway in the first place and to observe all tried and tested rules. Hazardous behaviour consisting e.g. in climbing cars on standstill is worthless, often unfortunately with extremely tragic consequences“, says Mr. Jiří Svoboda, Director General of SŽDC.
”We know from practice that most sad stories happen quite needlessly, in many cases due to a lack of discipline, taking risks and frequently fatally underestimating the situation. Young people of 14 to 19 years of age belong to the most endangered groups. We want the sequel to the successful movie to address another generation of young people and to make it think over its behaviour”, said Mr. Michal Štěpán, member of the Board of Directors of České dráhy responsible for passenger transport.
Right after today’s premiere, the movie will meet its first audience as it will become a part of the Prevention Train for a Safe Railway which will stop this week on its autumn tour through the Czech Republic in Zlín (12 - 13 September); the cities of Otrokovice (17 September) and Kroměříž (18 and 19 September) will follow. The final stop of the train this year will be at Praha-Smíchov railway station on 25 – 27 September.
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