Creating Context - Expanding the Scope of Media Creation as an Educational Tool

'With the advent of affordable and compact digital technology, cinematic video and multimedia production has very quickly become one of the most dynamic creative fields open to young artists. No longer are budding filmmakers and media artists hamstrung by costly equipment or a lack of specific technical knowledge. The benefit of this technological and cultural shift are obvious in the brash young artists making movies on hand-held camera, screening animated videos across the Internet and building dynamic web sites from their bedrooms.' - Michael Jones discusses the Soundhouse multimedia production programme for students at the Powerhouse museum, Sydney.