Unit 4: Creative Media Management Project

Self enrolment

The aim of this unit is to provide learners with the understanding, knowledge and skills required to manage the production of a media product from the initial idea through to completion.

Unit 5: Working to a Brief in the Creative Media Industries

Self enrolment

This unit aims to take the learner through the whole process of working to a brief from initial negotiations, through the process of developing and realising ideas in liaison with the client to final self-evaluation on completion of the work.

Unit 6: Critical Approaches to Creative Media Products

Self enrolment

This unit aims to develop learners’ understanding of how media producers create their products for targeted audiences. It also aims to develop their critical and personal understanding of these products. Looking at media production from these perspectives will give learners a more focused approach to their own production work.

Unit 23: Multi-Camera Techniques

Self enrolment

This unit aims to develop understanding of multi-camera television formats, and to develop stills in multi-camera production techniques. Learners will also gain an appreciation of how the multi-camera process integrates with other production skills and gain valuable experience of studio management, multi-camera directing and studio floor techniques. 

Unit 27: Factual Programme Production Techniques for Television

Self enrolment

This unit aims to provide learners with the opportunity to develop the full range of skills needed for factual programme production, from researching and planning of productions through to the production process.

Unit 28: Corporate and Promotional Programme Production

Self enrolment

This unit aims to provide learners with the understanding, knowledge and skills required to plan and produce corporate and promotional programmes.

Unit 29: Music Video Production

Self enrolment

In this unit learners will explore the purpose, styles and conventions of music video. They will then develop, plan and produce a music video.

Unit 31: Social Action and Community Media

Self enrolment

The aim of this unit is to enable learners to apply production skills in a community context. Learners will investigate existing social action and community media products and then apply their understanding through the production of a piece of work with a specific social action and community purpose. Finally, they will evaluate the effectiveness of the finished product.

Unit 35: Producing Video Installation Work

Self enrolment

This unit aims to encourage learners to experiment with video as a medium. They will develop an awareness of the potential of non-mainstream forms of video production and devise, produce and exhibit work, thus acquiring an understanding of video installation work within the context of a gallery or other exhibition space.

Unit 36: Interview Techniques for Creative Media Production

Self enrolment

This unit aims to give learners the opportunity to develop the skills and understanding necessary to conduct interviews effectively for a range of media products. The unit develops learner appreciation of the techniques employed by other practitioners in the field before moving on to give them first-hand experience of preparing for and conducting interviews.