Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 5
Pearson BTEC Level 5 HND Diploma in Interactive Media
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 5
- Total credits240
- Guided learning960 hours
- Units in this qualification37
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.
Animation Techniques for Interactivity in Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand interactive animation concepts
- Use 2D digital animation techniques for interactivity in art and design
- To be able to produce 3D animation work
- Present outcomes to industry standards
Audio Visual Techniques in Interactive MediaReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the techniques involved in pre-production and production
- Digitise audio and video materials
- Use post-productionfacilities to communicate audioand visual ideas
Business Practice in Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of business practice
- Plan an effective creative enterprise project in art and design
- Produce art and design outcomes for a creative enterprise project
- Evaluate business practice in art and design
Communication with Images in Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the use of visual imagery in different cultures and sub-cultures
- Understand the use of sequencing to communicate with a series of images
- Communicate meaning and messages and information using images
- Produce visual imagery aimed at different audiences
Computer Interface Design PrinciplesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand interface design in interactive media
- Investigate audio in an interactive interface context
- Investigate visual cues in an interactive interface context
- Produce an interactive interface
Computer Programming PrinciplesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand concepts of operating systems
- Use software design techniques
- Apply programming techniques
- Implement formal testing procedures
Computer Systems Requirements AnalysisReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse an existing computer system
- Identify requirements for a computer system
- Undertake a feasibility study
- Produce a design for a computer system
Computing FundamentalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand computing fundamentals
- Understand the concept of a networked system
- Understand the functions of operating systems
- Understand data communication
Contextual and Cultural Referencing in Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Undertake in depth research
- Understand the influences on art and design activities and outcomes through the interpretation and analysis of information
- Assess, interpret and evaluate information
- Evaluate and present conclusions
Critical Study in Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the historical evolution and visual characteristics of the work of artists and designers
- Understand and apply appropriate methods of research and analysis
- Apply the influences of historical, contemporary and contextual factors to own practice
- Synthesise research and present a professional and personal written study
Digital Video Post-Production and EditingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and create material
- Digitise material
- Perform post-production processes
- Export files to meet industry requirements
Drawing Techniques and Processes in Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to analyse the use of drawing media, materials and techniques
- Use drawing techniques and processes creatively
- Extend visual language
- Evaluate work for further development.
Ideas Generation and Development in Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Exploit idea-generating techniques
- Implement complex ideas visually
- Express ideas using visual techniques
- Understand the cultural contexts in which ideas are visually transmitted
Ideas in ContextReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Independently generate ideas to fulfil complex visual arts objectives
- Devise complex ideas to suit specific art and design applications
- Work with others in generating, developing and communicating ideas
- Plan and design a presentation and communicate ideas
Interactive Media Design and PrototypingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand user requirements for an interactive media product
- Design an interface for an interactive media prototype
- Assemble audio and visual components for a prototype
- Develop an interactive media prototype
Interactive Media PrinciplesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand contemporary interactive media communication forms
- Understand the uses of interactive media
- Identify the requirements for an interactive outcome
- Assemble an interactive presentation
Interactive Media TeamworkReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Negotiate the requirements of a live interactive media brief with a client
- Adopt a role within a development team
- Produce an initial prototype
- Produce a completed interactive media outcome
Interactive Media TechnologyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand interactive media technologies
- Identify users’ needs for the development of an interactive media product
- Develop an interactive media product
- Select technologies for an interactive media application
Interactive Media Web AuthoringReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Design web pages using HTML code
- Enhance web pages using advanced HTML code
- Produce web pages using JavaScript and Java Applets
- Publish web pages on an intranet/internet
Lens-based Recording Techniques in Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of lens-based recording techniques
- Use lens-based equipment
- Apply visual language in lens-based work
- Produce lens-based work
Management of the Design and Production ProcessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Produce solutions using visual and communication skills
- Prepare a project and work to a realistic schedule
- Work in a team and manage the production process
- Understand how to improve the creative production process
Managing A Creative BusinessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the structures of small businesses in the arts sector
- Understand sources of funding and support available to small businesses
- Apply financial administration techniques important to small business enterprises
- Understand management issues relevant to small business enterprises
Marketing Development Using Interactive MediaReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare a comprehensive marketing strategy for the launch of a new interactive media service.
- Plan and implement advertising campaigns utilising interactive media channels.
- Understand the changes and trends affecting distribution channels for digital media products.
- Use interactive media tools to create compelling and effective advertising products.
Networks and Operating SystemsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of operating systems
- Configure an operating system
- Understand the concepts of networked systems
- Implement a network system
New Technologies in Interactive MediaReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand recent hardware and software developments related to interactive media
- Explore the potential of new technology
- Produce a proposal for an interactive media product using new technology
- Evaluate the current impact of new technology on interactive media products
Packaging in Graphic DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the types and different styles of packaging
- Understand the technology of current packaging manufacturing
- Produce design solutions to packaging problems
- Evaluate design solutions
Professional Practice in Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Place themselves and their work in the context of their selected discipline
- Understand their specialist area and the career opportunities available
- Develop and present a professional portfolio in an appropriate format
- Understand how to promote themselves and their work professionally
Professional Sound Production Using Interactive MediaReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the use of sound and sound manipulation
- Experiment with combining sounds
- Experiment with combining sound and image
- Present, install and analyse own work
Professional Studies in Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the types of legislation affecting designers
- Understand the need for professional ethics and responsibility in design
- Understand environmental and social responsibility in design
- Understand the relationships between business organisations and job roles of designers
Project Management for Learning Using Interactive MediaReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand personal learning styles, aspirations, and motivation in the context of interactive media.
- Propose and initiate changes to improve an interactive media product.
- Plan the systematic development and delivery of an interactive media product from conception to completion.
- Effectively manage project budgets and logistics for the development of an interactive media product.
References and Sources in Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Research visual information from different sources
- Understand the application of visual information in different applications and contexts
- Manipulate visual imagery to convey ideas and messages
- Understand the different contexts for production, manipulation and application of imagery.
Research ProjectReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to formulate a research specification
- Implement the research project within agreed procedures and to specification
- Evaluate the research outcomes
- Present the research outcomes
Sound Production and Editing Using Interactive MediaReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how sound is used in contemporary interactive media
- Capture sound for interactive media work
- Manipulate captured sound to evoke responses
- Edit captured sound for inclusion in interactive media work
Video ProductionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Establish client and audience requirements
- Plan and produce a video productionr to meet requirements
- Apply post-production techniques
- LO4 Understand own video production
Visual Communication in Art and DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Communicate ideas and concepts by researching visual techniques
- Select visual communication techniques to realise creative intentions
- Produce work which demonstrates the use of visual communication
- Understand the potential for personal development through the application of new approaches to visual communication.
Visual and Personal PresentationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand visual and personal presentation formats in art and design
- Plan a presentation to meet specific requirements
- Use materials, media and techniques to present design work
- Evaluate own visual and personal presentation
Website Creation and ManagementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the requirements for interactive web sites
- Produce interactive web pages
- Build a website
- Develop interactive applications on a web server
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.
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 5 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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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.
- Create Novel Ideas for Future Interactions Inspired by Learning and Goal Setting Activities
- Create an interactive website
- Develop Ideas for Arts Projects and Live Events
- Develop Packaging Design Ideas
- Generate ideas for immersive technology projects
- Generate packaging reprographics
- Manipulate media to meet requirements of digital workflow
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 5 HND Diploma in Interactive Media
37 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Animation Techniques for Interactivity in Art and Design
- Audio Visual Techniques in Interactive Media
- Business Practice in Art and Design
- Communication with Images in Art and Design
- Computer Interface Design Principles
- Computer Programming Principles
and 31 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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