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Level 2 Diploma in Creative Media Production and Technology

Media

The UAL Level 2 Diploma in Creative Media Production and Technology has been designed to provide students with the knowledge, skills and understanding necessary to access and progress to the level 3 programme and employment in the media sector.

It provides an opportunity for those who have an interest in media to explore, develop and test their creativity within a qualification structure which is stimulating and demanding and provides a supportive transition from general to more specialised study.” UAL Website.

We don’t just teach you the skills the pass the course, we also teach creativity, storytelling, communication, leadership, empathy, emotional intelligence, and the ability to rapidly learn new skills.

These skills will help you with any line of work you enter, every business is desperate for people with creative and communication skills.

This course gives us the flexibility to allow students to learn how to experiment, to embrace failure as part of the creative progress, to learn what they are passionate about, and develop that in a direction of their choosing. As they do this, they develop the essential soft skills that will help them in any career that they choose, such as teamworking skills, leadership, communication and public speaking. The skills that can get our students any job that they want.

In the last few years there has been an explosion of video content on social media. Every company is embracing visual media to steal the attention away from their competitors. Our students will have the edge in any interview and career path because of how much communication skills are valued. This is true, no matter what path they take.

It is aimed at 16-18-year-olds, usually having just finished their GCSEs.

Course Dates:September 2024 to June 2025

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Level 3 Extended Diploma in Media Production

Media

The Level 3 Extended Diploma in Creative Media Production and Technology will provide students with opportunities to develop and utilise broad, transferable skills by encouraging an ethos of personal and professional development.

Students will move on to the extended Diploma in year 2 after completing the Diploma in year 1. The course is designed to encourage students to think and work as creative individuals. They will develop their research, planning and production skills and learn to work in a more independent way.

There will be an opportunity to undertake professional work experience, creating content for local organisations. There is also an emphasis on planning for progression to university or entry level employment within the media sector or other industries.

Course Dates:September 2024 to June 2025

Full Time

Level 3 Diploma in Creative Media Production and Technology

Media

The UAL Level 3 (Extended) Diploma in Creative Media Production and Technology has been designed to provide students with the knowledge, skills and understanding necessary to access and progress to degree-level study and employment in the media sector.

It provides an opportunity for those who have an interest in media to explore, develop and test their creativity within a qualification structure which is stimulating and demanding and provides a supportive transition from general to more specialised study. UAL Website.

More than this we are in a media saturated world that is going through a period of intense technological and social change. Some studies show that 47% of current jobs will disappear in the next decade due to automation and A.I. We are preparing our students for a career that will develop through 2035 and beyond.

We cannot know exactly what that world looks like, but all evidence suggests that the following skills will be vital. Creativity, storytelling, communication, leadership, empathy, emotional intelligence, and the ability to rapidly learn new skills. Or to put it simply, what makes us human?

Sadly, as people like Sir Ken Robinson point out, our current education system has a history of undervaluing creativity and embedding a fear of failure.

This course gives us the flexibility to allow students to learn how to experiment, to embrace failure as part of the creative progress, to learn what they are passionate about, and develop that in a direction of their choosing. In turn this also increases wellbeing and self-awareness.

In the last few years there has been an explosion of video content on social media. Every company has to embrace media to steal the attention away from their competitors. Our students will have the edge in any interview and career path because of how much communication skills are valued. This is true, no matter what path they take.

It is aimed at 16-18-year-olds, usually having just finished their GCSEs. However, the way it is taught, and the freedom allowed for the student, means this is easily adapted to mature students, which we occasionally attract as well.

Course Dates:September 2024 to June 2025