Cambridge OCR · RQF Level 1
OCR Level 1 Certificate for Creative iMedia (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 1
- Total credits20
- Guided learning62 hours
- Units in this qualification34
Awarded by Cambridge OCR · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Cambridge OCR 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.
Adobe rich media communication using Flash ProfessionalReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Set project requirements
- Plan to use rich media design objects
- Use Adobe Flash software interface to structure the development environment
- Build rich media elements using Adobe Flash to meet project requirements
- Evaluate rich media elements created using Adobe Flash by testing
Adobe video communication using Adobe Premiere ProReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Set project requirements for video.
- Plan design elements when preparing video content to meet requirements.
- Customise the Adobe Premiere Pro Interface to meet requirements.
- Edit a Video Sequence with Adobe Premiere Pro to meet requirements.
- Export Video footage with Adobe Premiere Pro to meet requirements.
Adobe visual communication using PhotoshopReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Set project requirements
- Use design elements when preparing images
- ApplyAdobe Photoshop features
- Manipulate images using Adobe Photoshop
- Publish digital images using Adobe Photoshop
Adobe web communication using DreamweaverReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Set project requirements
- Plan site design and page layout
- Use the Adobe Dreamweaver interface to manipulate image properties
- Add content to a planned website by using Dreamweaver
- Organise content by using Dreamweaver
- Review and maintain sites by using Dreamweaver
Character modellingReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Explore the visual characteristics of 2D/3D characters.
- Plan an original character
- Produce a character
- Understand how to review the character against the original brief
Character modellingReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate characteristics and technologies used for 2D and/or 3D characters
- Plan an original 2D or 3D character to a specific brief
- Create, save and test the planned character using the identified software
- Understand how to review the character against the original brief
Creating a digital animationReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate digital animation techniques
- Plan a digital animation
- Create, save and test the planned digital animation
- Understand how to review the digital animation against the original brief
Creating a digital audio-visual sequenceReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Explore audio-visual products
- Plan a digital audio-visual product
- Create the audio-visual product
- Understand how to review the audio-visual product against the original brief
Creating a digital sound sequenceReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Explore the purpose and recording of digital sound
- Plan a digital sound to a specific brief
- Create, save and test the digital sound
- Understand how to review the digital sound outcome against the original brief
Creating a digital video sequenceReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate the world of digital video
- Plan the pre-production and the original video to a specific brief
- Record and test the video footage
- Understand how to review the video against the original brief
Creating a multipage websiteReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate the purpose and features of web sites
- Plan a website to a specific brief
- Create, save and test the planned website
- Understand how to review the website against the original brief
Creating an animated objectReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Explore the use of animation
- Plan a digitally animated object
- Create the digitally animated object
- Understand how to review the digitally animated object against the original brief
Design and test computer gamesReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Explore types of games
- Plan a new game to a given brief
- Create a simple 2D game
- Understand how to review the game against the original brief
Developing digital games using game creation softwareReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate game creation environments
- Plan a digital game and creation schedule to a specific brief
- Create, save and test the digital game
- Understand how to review the digital game against the original brief
Digital graphics editingReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the uses and principles of digital graphics
- Plan the editing of a digital graphic montage
- Produce a digital graphic
- Understand how to review the digital graphic
Digital graphics editingReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate digital graphics
- Plan the editing of a digital graphic montage
- Create and save a digital graphic
- Understand how to review the digital graphic
Digital media skills for asset productionReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Explore technologies and uses for digital media
- Plan to convert digital media files
- Convert digital media files
- Understand how to review the converted files
Digital media skills for asset productionReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate the uses and techniques of digital media
- Produce a plan to edit digital media files
- Create, edit and test digital media files
- Understand how to review digital media files
Digital performanceReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Explore the world of live digital performance
- Plan a live digital performance
- Create, save and test the planned sequence
- Understand how to review the digital performance
Digital photographyReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate photographic equipment and techniques
- Plan to take photographs
- Take photographs using a digital camera
- Understand how to review the photographs taken
Digital photographyReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Explore photographic equipment
- Plan to take photographs
- Take photographs using a digital camera
- Understand how to review the photographs taken
Exploring the digital world of mediaReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Explore the digital world
- Plan to inform a client about the digital world
- Create a product for the chosen areas of the digital world in a media format
- Understand how to review the finished product against the original brief
Game design conceptsReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate digital games
- Plan a digital game to a specific brief
- Design the game and test plan
- Understand how to review the game against the original brief
Interactive multimedia conceptsReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate interactive multi media technologies and products
- Plan an interactive multimedia product to a specific brief
- Create save and test the interactive multimedia product
- Understand how to review the interactive multimedia product against the original brief
Interactive multimedia presentationsReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Explore interactive multimedia products
- Plan and prepare an interactive multimedia product
- Create the interactive multimedia product
- Understand how to review the interactive multimedia product against the original brief
Introduction to web page productionReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Explore different types of websites and the features used
- Plan and prepare the website structure
- Create a master page and web pages
- Understand how to test and review the web pages against the original brief
Pre-production skillsReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Know about pre-production techniques
- Plan pre-production
- Produce pre-production documents
- Understand how to review pre-production documents
Sound effectsReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Explore types of sound effects and where sound effects are used
- Plan to record a sound effect using props
- Record and edit the planned sound effect
- Understand how to review the sound effect against the original brief
Sound effectsReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate uses and features of sound effects
- Plan to record sound effects
- Create save and test the planned special sound effects
- Understand how to review the special sound effect against the original brief
Special video effectsReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Explore types of video effects and where they are used
- Plan a short digital video with special effects
- Create and edit a digital video clip with special effects
- Understand how to review the final video clip with special effects against the original brief
Storytelling with a comic stripReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate the uses and applications of comic books
- Plan a multi-page comic strip to a specific brief
- Produce, test and save the planned multi-page comic strip
- Understand how to review the comic strip against the original brief
Storytelling with a comic stripReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Explore types of comic books
- Plan and create a simple comic strip to a brief
- Save/export the comic strip
- Understand how to review the comic strip against the original brief
Video composite effectsReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate uses and features of visual special effects technologies
- Plan a composite video sequence with special effects according to a client brief
- Create, test and export the composite video sequence with special effects
- Understand how to review the final sequence against the client brief
Virtual performanceReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate the concepts of creating a live virtual performance using software.
- Plan to create a scene
- Create, manage and test a virtual performance
- Understand how to review the virtual performance
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 1 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
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Investigate Locations During Pre-Production
- Organise Pre-Production Activities on Film or Television Productions
- Provide sound spot effects and atmosphere
Where this can lead
Video Content Specialist
Your journey here as a Video Content Specialist is just the beginning. We're committed to helping you grow, whether that's becoming a technical expert, a creative leader, or a strategic manager. We'll provide the opportunities; you bring the drive and the talent.
See the whole journey →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 OCR Level 1 Certificate for Creative iMedia (QCF)
28 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Cambridge OCR.
- Adobe rich media communication using Flash Professional
- Adobe video communication using Adobe Premiere Pro
- Adobe visual communication using Photoshop
- Adobe web communication using Dreamweaver
- Character modelling
- Creating a digital animation
and 22 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
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
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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