
Title: Canadians in Middle Earth
Title: Canadians in Middle Earth
Video length: 1:38 minutes
Pleasant, upbeat music plays throughout.
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New Zealand Working Holiday
Canadians in Middle Earth
A corkboard displays a map of New Zealand, a photo of 4 people doing a Haka (ceremonial dance), a photo of a person bungee-jumping, a photo of 2 people in a Zorb (large inflatable clear ball), a photo of 2 people parachuting and a photo of someone in Hobbiton.
A shot through an airplane window shows clouds, mountain tops and the aircraft’s right wing.
Text displays:
New Zealand here I come!
#WorkingHoliday @IECVoyage #AOTEAROA
A New Zealander performing a Pōwhiri, or welcome ceremony, on a brick pathway surrounded by a garden.
Two women, a man and 3 sheep walking on a grassy hill side.
Back to the same corkboard with a new photo of people skydiving and a photo of a person on a dock in Hobbiton, New Zealand.
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#FallingWithStyle
A man bungee jumps in front of a bridge, rocks and flora.
The image changes to a cityscape with several people are walking on the sidewalk.
Two men on a chair lift surrounded by snowy mountains.
The SkyTower in Auckland, New Zealand.
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#ThisIsSparta
Mountains in the background. In the foreground, a man accompanied by 2 bungee instructors is getting ready to bungee jump.
Instructor [shouting]: “This is Sparta!”
Two people doing the bungee jump.
A snowy landscape and empty chair lifts.
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#OfficeView
A pilot and his co-pilot fly over the mountains in a helicopter.
Text displays:
#TimeForWork
Fast-motion sequence of dozens of people walking in a train station.
The corkboard reappears.
Text displays:
Work project due 12th March
Meeting at Sky City at 10 a.m., 20th March
Team-building Kaitaiki whitewater rafting
Weekend on Waiheke Island
NZ To do:
Work near the beach
Visit Hobbiton
Watch a Haka
Whitewater rafting
A post-it note on the corkboard lists a work project due on 12 March, a meeting at Sky City on 20 March, a team-building activity and a weekend on Waiheke isle. A second post-it note lists 4 activities to do in New-Zealand: work near the beach, visit Hobbiton, watch a Haka and try whitewater rafting. A photograph of a hiker.
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# Discover
A person goes down steps in the forest. The next shot shows another person walking on pebbles.
Two people are skipping rocks on a lake.
Geysers discharging steam appears in the next image then changes to mountainous landscape.
A man and a woman seated around a table on a café patio. They are reading the newspaper. A tramway can be seen in the background.
Back to a mountainscape. There is a lake in the centre of the mountains. Next image is a quick shot of a ferry. The next part shows 2 groups of people taking selfies, on a boat and in town.
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#Explore
Hikers are walking through a narrow path between 2 icy glaciers.
A Kea Bird walking. A dolphin swimming, then a waterfalls down the side of a mountain and into the ocean.
Three side-by-side shots show: a man jumping into a lagoon, the city along the shoreline and a woman jumping into the lagoon.
Looking through a windshield, showing a gravel road with mountains covered in foliage in the distance.
Quick appearance of the corkboard.
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#Adventure
Three people in a jet boat speed through the rushing whitewater at Huka Falls.
A person is riding on a scooter through a small tunnel while some friends watch from above.
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#BaristaLife
Image of a customer seated outside at a café while a server takes her order.
Snow top mountains in the background with a man in the foreground walking from the left side to the right of the screen.
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#MiddleEarth
Three side-by-side shots of Hobbiton from the film series Lord of the Rings: the entrance to the hobbit-hole, rolling hills and a dirt pathway leading through the hills.
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#EatingWithKiwis
A supermarket employee is stocking kiwi fruit.
A woman sits on the rocks watching waves crash against the shoreline.
Image of geysers discharging steam.
Back to thecorkboard with a zoom-in on the image of zorb ball.
Inside of the zorb ball: the woman inside the large, clear plastic ball smiles and raises her hands in excitement.
Maori men and women performing a traditional dance using poi (equipment used in the dance). In the background, a man is playing guitar.
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#POI
#FirstDayAtWork
Three side-by-side shots of a woman shearing a sheep, a man behind the counter of a brewery and young man slicing open a large watermelon.
A large outdoor stadium is filled with cheering rugby fans. More fans are shown gathered under a large tent watching the rugby game on a big screen TV.
Back to corkboard.
Skydive
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#ConquerFear
Two skydivers filming themselves soaring over New Zealand. The camera angle changes to the landscape below with long winding rivers and green forest.
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#WorkandTravel
Three side-by-side images of a woman scanning documents, a server wiping down a table and a barista making a coffee.
Two girls bungee jump together and take an upside down video as they fall towards the water below.
A quick image of the Huka Falls with the white rapids rushing along the river towards the falls.
A man plays golf with the mountains in the background.
Point-of-view shot of a raft going through some rapids, then a shot of a person in a kayak paddling down a waterfall.
A skydiver takes a selfie of himself and his instructor while they’re in a plane. The instructor makes a peace sign as the other man smiles.
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#PickThosePaddlesUp
Five women are making a video of themselves on a yellow raft. They yell “Pick those paddles up!” They are wearing helmets and life jackets.
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#WorkAbroad
A sequence of 3 people in an office, smiling at the camera while wearing headphones and a microphone.
Shot of 2 people skydiving filmed by skydiving instructor. You can see water and land below.
Maori men and women are performing the Haka. Shot of a female hiker standing on frozen snow with mountainous background.
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#Haka
#Roadtrip
A road with green fields and large mountains can be seen through a car windshield.
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#WorkingHoliday
Slow-motion of 5 people jumping in the air on a grassy landscape. In the background, the mountains are shrouded in fog with the sun shining through.
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canada.ca/iec
New Zealand – Working Holiday
International Experience Canada
Expérience internationale Canada
Canada wordmark
A small Canadian flag waves above the last letter of the Canada wordmark.