Section 5 - Resources and Reading
Selected Reading
(this is a deliberately short list, as time is tight on teacher training courses. It offers a combination of an authoritative overview, in David Buckingham’s book, an influential account of media production work; and a practical guide to video-making).
Buckingham, D (2003) Media education: literacy, learning and contemporary culture, Cambridge: Polity
Buckingham, D, Grahame, J and Sefton-Green, J (1995) Making Media: Practical Production in Media Education (The English and Media Centre)
Fraser, P and Oram, B (2004) Teaching Digital Video Production, London, bfi (a very practical guide to video production from expert practitioners in a sixth form college)
Resources
- The Key Stage 3 Media Book - English and Media Centre
- The Key Stage 4 Media pack - English and Media Centre
- The News Pack - English and Media Centre
- The Soap Pack - English and Media Centre
- The Advertising Pack - English and Media Centre
- Picture power (CD ROM and book) English and media Centre
- The Britpix Pack (video and study guide) - Film Education 1999
- Sky: Thinking Outside the Box: Media Studies Curriculum Resource Pack
The English & Media Centre’s website, which has full details of their many publications, is at www.englishandmedia.co.uk.
The British Film Institute also has many resources for film and media teaching, many of them downloadable, at www.bfi.org.uk/education/teaching/
Film Education, which is funded by the industry, also has many excellent resources: www.filmeducation.org
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