Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 2
Pearson BTEC Level 2 Diploma in Creative Media Production (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits60
- Guided learning79 hours
- Units in this qualification18
Awarded by Pearson Education Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Pearson Education Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
2D Computer Game EnginesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about 2D game platforms and their limitations,
- Know about the 2D game assets used to build a game world,
- Know how 2D game engines are used to build a game world,
- Build a 2D game world to a specification.
2D Digital Art for Computer GamesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about digital graphics technology,
- Know about the graphic styles and graphical themes used in games,
- Use pencil to draw concept art for a game,
- Use digital tools to create a 2D digital image and texture for a game from a concept drawing
3D Computer Game EnginesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about 3D game platforms and their connectable devices,
- Know about the 3D game assets used to build a game world,
- Know how 3D game engines are used to build a game world,
- Build a 3D game world to a specification.
Advertising ProductionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know how advertisements are constructed,
- Develop ideas for an advertisement,
- Create an advertisement,
- Review own advertising production.
Audio ProductionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about broadcast and non-broadcast audio products and formats,
- Use audio technology to create an audio product,
- Review own audio production work.
Communication Techniques for Creative Media ProductionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Communicate about media production in discussions,
- Present information and ideas orally to an audience,
- Communicate information and ideas in written formats for media production.
Computer Games TestingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the game development process,
- Know about the phases of game testing,
- Know about the types of defects that can be found within a game,
- Produce a bug report using a test technique.
Creative Media Production ProjectReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare a proposal for a media product,
- Complete pre-production for a proposed media product,
- Create a proposed media product,
- Review own production project work.
Deconstructing Computer GamesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about computer game platforms,
- Know about computer game components,
- Deconstruct a computer game.
Digital Graphics for Interactive and Print-Based MediaReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about digital graphics technology,
- Generate ideas for digital graphic images,
- Use digital tools to create digital graphics for interactive media products in response to a brief,
- Use digital tools to create digital graphics for print media products in response to a brief.
Factual Production for the Creative MediaReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the conventions of factual media formats,
- Generate ideas for a factual media product,
- Create a factual media product following appropriate conventions,
- Review own factual media production work.
Photography TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Generate ideas for photographic images informed by photographic practice,
- Use photographic technology to create photographic images,
- Review own photography work.
Print ProductionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about print production technologies and techniques
- Develop ideas for printed material
- Create print products
- Review own print production work.
Research for Creative Media ProductionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Use research methods and techniques to gather material for a media production,
- Use research methods and techniques to investigate an existing media product,
- Know about research methods and techniques,
- Present results of research
The Creative Media SectorReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know how the creative media sector is structured,
- Know about job roles and conditions of employment in a creative media industry,
- Gain employment in a creative media industry.
Video ProductionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out pre-production for a proposed video product,
- Contribute in a technical capacity to the creation of a video product,
- Carry out post-production for a video product,
- Review own video production work.
Web AuthoringReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about web authoring principles and protocols,
- Develop a plan for a website,
- Use web authoring software to create a website,
- Review own web authoring work.
Writing for the Creative MediaReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about different types of writing produced in the creative media sector,
- Generate ideas for written material,
- Produce written material,
- Review own writing work.
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 2 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
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Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
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Where this can lead
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson BTEC Level 2 Diploma in Creative Media Production (QCF)
18 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- 2D Computer Game Engines
- 2D Digital Art for Computer Games
- 3D Computer Game Engines
- Advertising Production
- Audio Production
- Communication Techniques for Creative Media Production
and 12 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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