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Students with a drug message
XANTHE KLEINIG
August 04, 2006 12:15am
"BEST not get carried away" is the message southern suburbs teenagers are delivering in a home-grown television commercial about illicit drugs.
The advertisement, filmed and acted by 15 students to educate young people about drug use, will now be entered into a national competition "GetReel".
If successful, their production will be made professionally and aired across Australia.
Year 11 Seaford student Jules Behrens was one of the main characters in the advertisement.
"In our film the character has two different lives - one starts drugs and keeps going and the other starts it and cuts down," he said. "One lives a really great life and the other ends up stuffing it all up.
"At the end they meet up and he finally realises he shouldn't have done the things he did."
The commercial runs for 30 seconds without dialogue and deals with marijuana use.
"Drugs can ruin your life and best not to get carried away," Jules said.
Project coordinator Shane Curley said: "Drug education is essential to the reduction of licit and illicit drug use among young people in Australia."
Students from Seaford, Wirreanda, Morphett Vale and Willunga high schools and Cardijn College took part in the project, earning credit towards their SACE certificates.
From The Advertiser
If Year 11 students in Adelaide can move beyond the 'Just-Say-No' approach to the problems associated with illict drugs, what does it say about the Federal Government who can't?