• Provides complete support for the new specification, with detailed guidance about current practices within the media industry.
• Save planning time: schemes of work and lesson plans help you make the most of your planning time and engage hands-on practical learners.
• Inspiring @t Work resources on CD: includes motivating video  footage of BTEC learners and media professionals, presentations for facilitating discussions and a range of stimulus material - all help to engage learners in the sector.
• It’s easy to update your VLE: all schemes of work, lesson plan, activity sheets and @t Work resources are stored on a FREE VLE disk in the Teaching Resource pack, so you can transfer whatever your need in just a couple of easy steps.

Author Team:

Paul Baylis, Natalie Procter, Andy Freedman, Ken Hall and Philip Holmes

They all are experienced BTEC tutors and media practitioners. In this student book, they bring the sector to life, with detailed information, examples and activities to support all aspects of Creative Media Production, including Television, radio, Film, Interactive Media, Games Development, Publishing, Advertising and Marketing, Photo-Imaging and Animation.

• Complete support and guidance for learners working towards Certificate, Extended Certificate or Diploma: the Student Book provides coverage of all the mandatory units and helps to develop skills common to all BTEC learners.
• Helps learners achieve their potential: provides comprehensive assessment activities, with grading tips for pass, merit and distinction. These activities encourage learners to apply knowledge and skills to their own media projects.
• Edexcel’s Assignment tips: written and reviewed by experts in the BTEC team, these give learners invaluable unit-by-unit advice on how to get the most from their BTEC course.
• Bring the media industry to the classroom: WorkSpace case studies – interviews with practising media professionals – help learners to understand this dynamic sector and give snapshots of real workplaces to inspire and motivate learners.

Author Team:

Paul Baylis and Natalie Procter

Both are experienced BTEC tutors and media practitioners. In this student book, they bring the sector to life, with detailed information, examples and activities to support all aspects of Creative Media Production, including Television, radio, Film, Interactive Media, Games Development, Publishing, Advertising and Marketing, Photo-Imaging and Animation.

• Unrivalled support: the student book offers complete support for the mandatory units, including those for the pathways, and valuable sector information and skills for all learners working towards a Certificate, Subsidiary Diploma, Diploma or Extended Diploma.
• Achieve your learners’ potential: comprehensive assessment activities, with grading tips for pass, merit and distinction to encourage best practice, independent learning and the development of specialist media skills.
• Edexcel’s Assignment tips: written and reviewed by experts in the BTEC team, these give invaluable advice on working towards higher grades for all assignments.
• Bring the media industry to the classroom: WorkSpace case studies take your learners into the real world of work, showing them how they can apply their knowledge in a real-life context.  
• Develop the professionals of the future: the focus on the pathways helps learners to develop the important skills and understanding of the media industry – whether they become journalists, games developers, media technicians or digital specialists for example.

Author Team:

Paul Baylis, David Brockbank, Andy Freedman, Ken Hall, Philip Holmes, Dan Morgan, Natalie Procter and Pete Wardle

All have brought a wealth of experience to their writing. In this book, they combine their teaching experience and in-depth knowledge of their specialist Media fields to bring you a range of engaging and motivating BTEC resources for the 2010 Specification.

• Offers the unit specification so you have everything you need in one place.
• Delivery plans that offer guidance and support for classroom delivery of each unit
• A bank of activity sheets – 15 per unit – that provide opportunities to develop practical skills, personal, learning and thinking skills, and functional skills in within a [subject] context.
• Invaluable assessment guidance will give teachers absolute peace of mind they have all the support they need to see heir learners through assessment.
• Dedicated guidance on the Project, as well as suggestions for Project themes so teachers can help each learner get started on their Project.

• Offers the unit specification so you have everything you need in one place.
• Delivery plans that offer guidance and support for classroom delivery of each unit
• A bank of activity sheets – 15 per unit – that provide opportunities to develop practical skills, personal, learning and thinking skills, and functional skills in within a [subject] context.
• Invaluable assessment guidance will give teachers absolute peace of mind they have all the support they need to see heir learners through assessment.
• Dedicated guidance on the Project, as well as suggestions for Project themes so teachers can help each learner get started on their Project.

• This Teacher Resource Disk contains a PDF of the entire Student Book giving teachers everything they need to plan a lesson in the same place!
• Functional Skills worksheets offer additional and ready-made activities to ensure that learners develop these skills.
• Sample delivery plans for each unit offer a helping hand for teachers delivering each lesson.
• Special guidance for the Project provides teachers with all the information they need to ensure that students will succeed!
• Links to interactive career content from U-Xplore help learners to think about their future career options.

• This Teacher Resource Disk contains a PDF of the entire Student Book giving teachers everything they need to plan a lesson in the same place!
• Functional Skills worksheets offer additional and ready-made activities to ensure that learners develop these skills.
• Sample delivery plans for each unit offer a helping hand for teachers delivering each lesson.
• Special guidance for the Project provides teachers with all the information they need to ensure that students will succeed!
• Links to interactive career content from U-Xplore help learners to think about their future career options.

• Follows a topic-based approach to place all concepts into real-world examples through a variety of stimulus material.
• Contains all the material for the Principal Learning of the Higher Diploma (Level 2) in one book and is clearly mapped to the Edexcel specification to make your life easier.
• Engaging magazine-inspired features help to bring learning alive and provide an opportunity to ground learning in real-life scenarios.
• Activities referenced to personal, learning and thinking skills (PLTS), functional skills and/or to the project ensure these important components are covered.
• Written by a team of authors who are experts in the industry to give you absolute trust in the quality of the content.

• Follows a topic-based approach to place all concepts into real-world examples through a variety of stimulus material.
• Contains all the material for the Principal Learning of the Higher Diploma (Level 2) in one book and is clearly mapped to the Edexcel specification to make your life easier.
• Engaging magazine-inspired features help to bring learning alive and provide an opportunity to ground learning in real-life scenarios.
• Activities referenced to personal, learning and thinking skills (PLTS), functional skills and/or to the project ensure these important components are covered.
• Written by a team of authors who are experts in the industry to give you absolute trust in the quality of the content.

• This full-colour accessible Student Book is written for Level 1 learners, and covers all the Principal Learning for the Foundation Diploma in Creative and Media.
• Functional Skills and Personal, learning and thinking skills are embedded throughout the book to ensure that learners develop these essential skills.
• Case studies are designed to help teachers bring the real world into the classroom to really engage students.