Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 4
Pearson BTEC Level 4 HNC Diploma in Creative Media Production
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 4
- Total credits120
- Guided learning480 hours
- Units in this qualification47
Awarded by Pearson Education Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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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 Digital Animation for Computer GamesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand 2D animation techniques,
- Generate ideas for 2D digital animations with soundtrack for computer games,
- Create 2D digital animations with soundtrack for computer games following industry practice.
2D Digital Graphics for Computer GamesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the theory of digital graphics for computer games
- Generate ideas for computer game graphics
- Create digital graphics for computer games following industry practice
3D Computer Game EnginesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relationships between 3D computer game elements
- Implement points of view in computer games using cameras from 3D game engines
- Implement control systems in computer games using input devices via 3D game engines
- Produce playable mods based on gameplay genres using 3D game engines.
Advertisement Production for TelevisionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the theory of advertising on television
- Understand how television advertisements are constructed
- Devise television advertisements for clients
- Produce television advertisements for clients.
Animation TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the techniques and styles used in animation
- Plan animated productions for specified audiences
- Create animated productions for specified audiences
- Evaluate own animation production work.
Audio Books, Audio Guides and Talking NewspapersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the audiences for audio books, audio guides and talking newspapers
- Research appropriate content for audio books, audio guides and talking newspapers for specific audiences
- Plan, adapt and produce appropriate content for audio books, audio guides and talking newspapers for specific audiences
- Understand duplication and distribution of audio books, audio guides and talking newspapers.
Camera and Lighting Techniques for Moving Image ProductionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand theory of light as it applies to camera lenses and lighting
- Use camera equipment for moving image production
- Use lighting equipment for moving image production.
Computer Game Design TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Gather and apply research material to computer game design proposals
- Apply computer game design techniques appropriately
- Communicate computer game designs as a project plan
- Apply computer game design project plans to working productions
Computer Game Platform FundamentalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand computer game platform types
- Understand hardware technologies of computer game platforms
- Understand software technologies of computer game platforms
- Connect computer game platforms and devices.
Computer Game Storytelling TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse computer game storytelling
- Create story for computer games
- Create computer game story dialogue
Computer Games StudiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the historical development of computer games
- Understand the cultural context and impact of computer games
- Analyse the ludic and narrative aspects of computer games.
Contextual Studies for Creative Media ProductionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the institutional context of creative media production and its influence on production
- Understand creative media products in the context of their reception
- Present research on the production and reception of creative media products following relevant conventions.
DVD Menu Design and AuthoringReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- LO1 Understand the applications and practice of DVD menu design and authoring
- LO2 Be able to design DVD menus
- LO3 Be able to prepare content for and author DVDs
- LO4 Be able to reflect on own DVD menu design and authoring work.
Development and Techniques of Film and Video EditingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the development of film and video editing technology and practice,
- Organise the edit environment,
- Edit film and video,
- Reflect own editing work.
Drawing Techniques for Computer Game Concept ArtReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Create concept drawings for computer games from life
- Create and maintain personal drawing web logs of computer game concept art
- Create and review career-oriented portfolios of own concept art drawing work
Fiction Production for the Moving ImageReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the development of fiction production in film and television
- Devise and pre-produce moving image fiction productions
- Manage production and post-production for moving image fiction productions
- Reflect on own moving image production work.
Film StudiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how meaning is constructed in film through visual and technical signification
- Understand theoretical models of film analysis
- Apply critical analysis to a chosen field of film studies.
Ideas Generation for Computer GamesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Apply idea-generating techniques to originate ideas for computer games
- Develop ideas for computer games within a cultural, legal and ethical context
- Communicate ideas for computer games
Interview and Presentation Techniques for RadioReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand radio interview types and techniques
- Research, plan and conduct interviews for specific radio programmes
- Understand roles and styles for presenting specific types of radio programme
- Research, plan, present and link specific types of radio programme.
Interview and Presentation Techniques for TelevisionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand television interview techniques
- Conduct interviews for television
- Understand television presenter roles and styles
- Present television programmes.
Journalism StudiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the institutional and cultural contexts in which journalism operates
- Understand the issues around power and control in journalism
- Understand the relationship between audiences, news institutions and journalists.
Law for JournalistsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal framework
- Understand the constraints on court reporting
- Understand law as it applies to journalistic practice
- Cover court stories
Multi-track Recording for Radio ProductionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand techniques and purposes of multi-track recording for radio programme production
- Plan multi-track recording for specific types of radio programmes
- Record and post-produce multi-track recordings for radio production
- Reflect on own radio production work.
Music Sequence Production for RadioReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different music radio formats and their audiences
- Produce sequences for music radio programmes
- Use studio equipment to present self-op music radio programmes
- Evaluate own work on music sequence programming.
Music Video ProductionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand styles, techniques, codes and conventions of music videos
- Plan music video productions
- Produce music videos
- Reflect on own music video production work.
Music and Sound for Computer GamesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- LO1 Understand theory and methods of sound design and production for computer games
- LO2 Understand the use of sound and music in computer games.
- LO3 Be able to create sound assets and integrate them into computer games.
News Journalism for PrintReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and research stories for print
- Use appropriate techniques for recording information
- Write accurately and effectively for newspapers and magazines
- Write news stories that conform to professional requirements
Page Design and Layout for Newspapers and MagazinesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the use of house styles in page design and layout for newspapers and magazines
- Understand the editorial and commercial factors that influence page design and layout for newspapers and magazines
- Design and produce stylebooks and page layouts for newspapers and magazines
- Reflect on own page design and layout work
Practical Skills for Computer Game AnimationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Use 2D graphics software tools for computer game animation
- Use 2D animation software tools for computer game animation
- Use 3D animation software tools for computer game animation
- Apply computer game animation production processes.
Practical Skills for Computer Game DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Conceptualise and design computer games
- Build functional prototypes of computer games
- Produce functional computer games
- Use testing and quality assurance methods to evaluate computer games.
Practical Skills for JournalismReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal, ethical and professional responsibilities of journalists
- Gather, evaluate and record material for news stories
- Use language in journalistic contexts
- Edit news stories.
Practical Skills for Moving Image ProductionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- LO1. Be able to use video and audio equipment for moving image recording
- LO2. Understand how to realise client requirements in relation to specified audiences
- LO3. Be able to follow appropriate procedures to complete productions for clients.
Practical Skills for Radio ProductionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand audio techniques and technology
- Capture live and pre-recorded audio content
- Use sound production techniques
- Follow sound production procedures.
Producing Multi-platform Radio ProgrammesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the platforms and audio technologies used to broadcast multi-platform radio
- Produce interactive content for multi-platform radio programmes
- Produce multi-platform radio programmes
- Reflect on own production work for multi-platform radio.
Promotional Video ProductionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand codes, conventions and current practices in promotional video production
- Plan promotional video productions
- Produce promotional video productions
- Reflect on own promotional video production work.
Radio Commercial ProductionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the radio commercial production industry
- Understand the styles and purposes of radio commercials in specific contexts
- Plan radio commercials for clients
- Produce radio commercials appropriate to target audience and client brief.
Radio Features ProductionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the form and structure of radio features
- Develop scripts for radio features for specific audiences
- Produce radio features for specific audiences
- Reflect on own radio features production work.
Radio JournalismReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand news values, legal and ethical issues as they relate to radio journalism
- Select, source, script and edit to deadline news stories of different lengths for a variety of radio news bulletins
- Compile radio news bulletins
- Present radio news bulletins
- Reflect on own radio journalistic work
Radio Magazine Programme ProductionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the format and content of radio magazine programmes
- Devise and plan production for magazine programmes within specific station schedules
- Produce and broadcast radio magazine programmes
- Reflect on own radio magazine programme work.
Radio StudiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how meaning is constructed in radio
- Understand theoretical approaches to radio audiences
- Apply critical analysis to a chosen field of radio studies.
Radio Studio TechnologyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand audio hardware used in radio studios
- Use software systems in radio studios
- Use studio equipment to record audio content
- Use and test link and transmission equipment.
Research Techniques for Creative Media ProductionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Apply research methods and procedures in creative media production contexts
- Ensure the accuracy and validity of research material
- Present research outcomes with due compliance
- Evaluate research processes and outcomes.
Script Writing for Factual RadioReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the markets for different genres of factual radio
- Develop proposals and treatments for factual radio scripts
- Develop scripts for factual radio production.
Shorthand for JournalistsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the theory and practice of shorthand systems
- Use a shorthand system in journalistic situations at speeds of at least 50 wpm
- Produce copy for journalistic formats from own transcribed notes.
Speech Package Production for RadioReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how radio stations use speech packages
- Develop ideas and pitch treatments for speech packages for different radio stations and audiences
- Produce material for speech packages for different radio stations and audiences
- Record and edit speech packages for different radio stations and audiences.
Television StudiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand factors affecting access to television production and reception
- Understand theoretical approaches to the analysis of television texts
- Apply analytical methods to a chosen field of television studies.
Television Studio ProductionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand types of studio-based television programme
- Contribute to planning for production of a studio-based television programme
- Undertake operational roles in studio-based television production
- Evaluate own television studio production work.
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 4 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.
- Comply with UK legal and regulatory requirements when working in journalism
- Design and produce page layout
- Expose the image for portable single camera shoots with lights
- Operate a Radio and Audio Studio
- Operate a radio or television studio
- Present a radio or audio programme or podcast
- Produce speech content for radio and audio productions
- Write headings for editorial content
Where this can lead
Trainee Media Lawyer
This Trainee Media Lawyer role is the first step on what can be an incredibly exciting and varied career journey. We're looking for someone who's eager to learn, ready to contribute, and passionate about the intersection of law and media. Come build your future with us.
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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 4 HNC Diploma in Creative Media Production
47 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- 2D Digital Animation for Computer Games
- 2D Digital Graphics for Computer Games
- 3D Computer Game Engines
- Advertisement Production for Television
- Animation Techniques
- Audio Books, Audio Guides and Talking Newspapers
and 41 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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