The growing development of educational-media practices at school, mainly those related to audiovisual productions, has motivated studies and research focusing mostly on this sort of activity and its effects on students` formation. This research aims at analyzing educational - media practices from the children`s and the youth`s perspectives and the way they undergo such experience. Additionally, it is also concerned with the students` assessment of their own production. For five months, 25 students, aged from 10 to 15, were involved in the present study as participants of two experiences carried out in two municipal schools of the city of Rio de Janeiro, whose work with educational-media projects are already remarkable. The main study procedures resulted from the challenging combination of research procedures of participative research with studies of an ethnographic nature. Thus, the research tools used were observation, workshops, individual and group interviews. The analysis of the empirical data was based upon an interdisciplinary debate among different theoretical frameworks, especially the current Latin-American studies on reception, the contributions of the sociology of childhood as well as the studies on youth and media. These perspectives emphasize the relationship of young spectators with the different media as active subjects in the meaning production process. They are seen as critical and creative actors. Finally, the development of educational-media practices at school has considered Pier Cesare Rivoltella`s and David Buckingham`s studies. The results have pointed out the subjects` own and original contributions, which confirms the importance and, consequently, the need of considering into account students` views, desires and expectations when planning and proposing school tasks and when developing public policies in this sector.