FILMS made by teenagers about the dangers of drink driving will be shown to thousands of football fans at Ewood Park.

Four teams of GCSE pupils from Our Lady and St John Catholic Arts College, Blackburn, were tasked to come up with ideas and storyboards for a 30-second advert as part of a project involving former BBC producer Alan Yardley.

And the films will be shown on the big screen when Blackburn Rovers play Chelsea on December 23.

The filming for the project was done this week, as a Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety survey revealed that 50 per cent of young drivers thought it was OK to drink and drive.

The Lancashire Telegraph Wasted Lives road safety campaign is also calling for under 25s to immediately lose their licence if they are caught with any trace of alcohol or drugs in their system.

Mr Yardley is working with the North Road school to develop a strategy for the Government's new Creative and Media Diploma for 14 to 19-year-olds.

Mr Yardley, who left the BBC to set up independent TV production company CREATV Broadcast 13 years ago, was so impressed by what they came up with, he offered to help make all four instead of just one.

If they are an equally good finished product, then all will be shown at Ewood Park.

The Lancashire Road Safety Partnership is now keen to get the films shown to a wider audience to help their campaign of stopping young people drink driving.

One of the films shows a single mother with a child at her parents house for Christmas dinner.

She gets into her car to drive home after drinking wine but the screen blacks out and viewers hear the sound of a crash.

Brecan Harrison, 16, of Blackburn, who helped make it, said: "It was a really good experience.

"I think it is important to get the drink driving message across."

Mr Yardley, whose business is based at Ewood Park, said: "To make it as realistic as possible, we wanted to give them a tight timescale so we challenged them to come up with a commercial about drink driving at Christmas, from a young person's point of view.

"They only had a few weeks and the storyboards and scripts they produced were as good as some professional work."

On Tuesday, Mr Yardley and his colleagues donated their time and equipment to show the pupils how to shoot scenes, at a location in Bolton.

The students then spent Wednesday making their films by themselves. Caroline Swan, director of the art college, said: "We're extremely grateful to Alan as he has done all this voluntarily out of his own pocket, it would cost about £1,000 a day normally."