Specification

Entry Requirements

6 Grade 9-3 including a Grade 4 in English and two other Grade 4.

Course Content

The following units will give you all of the information, knowledge and analytical techniques you will need to produce your own moving images to the same standard as that which is broadcast. Most of these units, however, will not be taught just in the classroom, but will be explored through practical work.

Year 12

Unit 04: Pre - Production

Unit 06: Media Campaigns

Unit 08: Responding to a Commission External Assessment

Unit 10: Film Production - Fiction

Unit 12: Website Production

Unit 15: Advertising Production

Unit 43: 3D Digital Animation

Year 13

Unit 01: Media Representations External Assessment

Unit 02: Working in the Creative Industries

Unit 03: Digital Media Skills External Assessment

Unit 05: Specialist Subject Investigations External Assessment

Unit 20: Single Camera Techniques

Unit 21: Film editing

Assessment

Over the two-year duration of the course, you will complete thirteen units, four of these units are marked externally by external examiners. The remaining nine units are marked internally by your lecturers. All units are graded Pass, Merit or Distinction.

Progression

Many of our students choose either an academic pathway through university or choose a vocational pathway, gaining apprentice positions in various media companies including the BBC, Channel 4, ITV as well as gaining employment on feature films and visual effects houses. Student success is high, with previous students forming their own company and producing and directing commercials for KFC and Tesco. We have seen success with our students entering the broadcasting sector working on high end programmes including Love Island, I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and Britain’s Got Talent. It can also lead to employment in areas such as video technology, shooting drama, video editing, layering sound on screen, designing graphics and idents for screens, factual programme production techniques, producing advertisements