Over the past decade, practical production has also become an increasingly important aspect of media education. Production work now forms a substantial component of many Media Studies syllabuses, and of other curriculum areas such as English, Art and Technology.

This book emerges from the ‘Making Media’ project, funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation, and is based on in-depth research in London secondary schools. It aims, the writers declare, ‘to undertake an interrogation of practice - of a kind which is in some ways analogous to the approach … argued for in media education itself.’ Making Media thus explores what students might learn from practical work, and evaluates a range of teaching strategies. The book contains six detailed case studies of practical projects covering a range of age groups and curriculum contexts. The classroom work described includes areas such as soap operas, sitcoms, rap video, music magazines, photo-stories and digital multimedia

. Through these concrete studies, the book addresses central questions about:

• the relationship between production and critical analysis;
• evaluation and assessment;
• the advantages and limitations of group work;
• the relationship between technology and creativity;
• the ideological, social and emotional dimensions of media production.

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