Diploma in Creative Media, Production & Technology (UAL Level 2)

The course has been designed for those with an interest in media and who wish to explore this interest via a full-time and immersive learning experience.

Ideally, you would have already identified a specific career in the creative industries that you wish to progress to (e.g. games designer, app designer, broadcast technician, camera person, director, etc.) and will use this qualification as a starting point.

This course will provide you with the skills, knowledge, and understanding necessary to progress to further study and training in a range of media-related subjects, including games design, website design, film, TV, radio and sound engineering.

The course incorporates a strong element of vocational learning in order to provide you with the understanding, knowledge and skills identified as necessary for future progression and employment. Further, you will practice and demonstrate a broad range of transferable skills: adaptability, self-reliance, collaboration, dependability, resilience, imagination and creativity.

This course is broadly equivalent to four GCSE grades A* - C and by resitting English and Maths it could give you six GCSEs.

What subjects/units/modules* will I study?

The course covers a wide variety of areas to give you the building blocks from which to develop, and will include a range of audio, visual and interactive digital technologies and traditional skills to work in areas such as animation, moving image, photography, graphic design. The year will culminate in an independent personal creative project in Media.

The qualification is delivered in two parts:

1. The Award: delivered through the first two units.

• Introduction to creative media methods and skills.

• Introduction to production techniques in creative media.

2. The Diploma: delivered through a further six units, provide further opportunity to build skills and confidence.

• Understanding an audience in creative media production.

• Contextual research for creative media production.

• Solve Exploring audio production and technology.

• Exploring visual production and technology.

• Exploring interactive media production and Technology.

• Personal project and presentation in creative media Level 2.

All units relate to the creative media sector and all are delivered through vocational learning and focus on the skills, knowledge and understanding that support all creative media, production and technology activity.

Will I need a DBS check for this course?

No

Will I need any specific resources, uniform and/or kit?

Starter pack information

It is important that you have the basic media equipment and materials at the beginning of your course to make an immediate start to your work. Suggestion is to clearly mark/label your own equipment with sharpies or nail polish so you don’t lose your kit.

Listed below are the essential requirements for the course in Media. All the items are available in a variety of shops in Douglas or you can buy them on-line.

Suggested local stores are:

WH Smiths (Strand Street), Creative Shop (Strand Street), The Artist (Nelson Street),

Dealz (Strand Street), Bridge Bookshop (Ramsey and Port Erin), Joan’s Wool & Crafts (Onchan), The Stationery Shop (Ramsey).

The specialist photography equipment supplier we suggest is ‘Morrison Photos’ located in 3 Tynwald Street, Douglas.

Electronic supplies: Isle of Gadgets (Douglas), Gadget Man (Douglas), PC World.

Basic Media equipment

Essential Equipment

1 Pritt Stick

1 Pencil sharpener

1 Rubber

1 Set of pencils HB-6B

2 Black fineliner pens

2 permanent black markers (Sharpie)

1 A4 logbook /sketchbook (available from College reception)

4 Ilford HP5 135-24 Film

1 Ilford 5” x 7” Multigrade Pearl or Glossy Photographic Paper -100 sheets-DO NOT OPEN IN DAYLIGHT!

1 External Drive of at least 1 TB

4 GB SD digital memory card – for use with College Digital DSLR cameras

1 quality USB card reader (Sandisk imagemate all-in-one is very good)

1 USB pen drive (min 8GB)

Desirable:

Own laptop

Access to adobe creative cloud (student access is fine)

You will also need to bring with you a small box to store your equipment in – preferably with a lock. Lockers are available in College. A small digital camera or camera phone is also very useful for recording.

Wear casual clothes, an old shirt or overalls for messy activities.

What are the days and hours of the course?

Please see below an example of a previous years’ timetable. All students will be given their timetable on the first day of the new academic year.

Will I undertake work experience as part of the course?

none

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