Expulsion Snuffs Out a Promising Student's Meteoric Rise | Coram - School Exclusions

A campaign film to draw attention to the work the charity "Coram" do on school exclusions. The film aimed specifically to engage young people who might be in the situation of being expelled, or know someone that is - highlighting the help you can get if you are in trouble, in a light-hearted way.
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Coram - School Exclusions by Beej Harris
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"It was a very broad brief so we were able to take it in any direction we fancied and we genuinely didn’t know that young people could get legal advice and contest their exclusion so it was worth shouting about. I think what attracted us at Uncle Films to this brief was two things: we believed in what Coram were doing in supporting/advocating for young people facing exclusion and we also loved how open-minded they were to any and all ideas.
From that point, it was always important to the client, and to us, that we incorporated young people in every stage of the process. As such, we ran a few workshops surrounding pre-production. The most enlightening of these was the writing workshop, where they took the script and helped with some of the more nuanced lingo that they would use in schools now which was definitely helpful as we are a bunch of 30-something filmmakers! “Baddest man” / “Bare smart” / “Low it man”, etc."
Read our full interview with Beej
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// Credits //
Writer + Director Beej Harris
Production Company UNCLE
Producer Zac Crawley
DOP Freddie Reed
1AC Ben Saunders
Production Designer Sophie May
Sound Recordist Reece Johns
Gaffer Gabriel Paul
Wardrobe Serena Crawley
Runner Joel Harbord
Talent Montel Edwards
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