Skills and Education Group Awards · RQF Level 3
ABC Level 3 Award in Broadcasting
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits8
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification15
Awarded by Skills and Education Group Awards · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Skills and Education Group Awards 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.
Acoustics and RecordingReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Explore principles in the description of sound
- Use microphones and record sounds
- Review the quality of their recordings
- Save recordings
Camera Operations for Film and VideoReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare and assemble a typical film or video camera ready for production
- Compose/frame a shot
- Document and manage film and video media in support of the production process
- Operate a film or video camera while monitoring the parametres of image quality
Context and History of Sound LanguageReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise and contextualise different genres of sound art
- Understand the influences on sound artists work
- Apply relevant sound theory to create a sonic narrative or soundscape
Creating Sound Design for a Professional ContextReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Select a discipline in which to apply sound design skills
- Create an original sound design
- Respond to the requirements of a discipline
- Be able present a completed original sound design
- Review own creative development
Developing Imagery and Sequences for Film and VideoReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Control light sources to illuminate the image
- Compose an image in relation to the aesthetic needs of the production
Digital Video EditingReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Utilise digital video editing processes and software to compile a series of video shots intonarrative sequences
- Employ a digital video editing processes to enhance narrative sequence
- Manage and store digital imagery
- Review own creative development
Film and Video Production Techniques and ProcessesReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Develop ideas for a film or television production
- Know about the key issues in the management of film and video production logistics
- Know about legal requirements for film and video production
- Know about the economics and accounting processes of film and television production
Introduction to Sound MixingReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Configure and use sound-mixing equipment
- Understand approaches to sound mixing
- Use sound mixing equipment to record original pieces of sound art or music
- Review own development
Introduction to Sound SynthesisReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Configure synthesis hardware/software
- Design original sounds using synthesis techniques
- Recognise how sound artists have used synthesis
- Use sound synthesis equipment to produce original pieces of sound art or music
Media Sound EditingReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of audio files and archive methods
- Integrate audio activity into media file
- Understand the key aspects of digital audio manipulation
- Review own development
Professional Roles in Film and Television ProductionReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the contributions made by production personnel to the technical and creativerealisation of a film or television production
- Understand the role of post-production in the film and television industry
- Know about the principal organisations associated with film and television production
- Present professional script and production project ideas to relevant audiences
Screencraft and Narrative Structures in Film and TVReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Isolate details of composition, lighting and movement in relation to genre
- Know about the use of narrative time and space
- Recognise how Mise en Scene relates to narrative form and genre
- Distinguish the properties of montage in relation to narrative structure
Screenplay Research and DevelopmentReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate ideas in terms of their suitability for a screenplay
- Research the background of a story
- Analyse common narrative forms and structures used in short films
- Develop characters and relate them to plot and dramatic structure within a screenplay
Understanding the Professional Context of Sound DesignReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise the disciplines to which sound design contributes
- Understand approaches to sound design
- Recognise own creative preferences
Writing Screenplays for Short FilmsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Write a short-film proposal to accompany funding applications
- Apply a range of structural techniques to the writing of a short screenplay using an appropriatelayout
- Write a concise reader’s report of a screenplay for a short film
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 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
The Evidence Evaluator
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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.
- Advise a potential client on a post production project
- Arrange for and supervise camera crew during shoots in a studio environment
- Assemble cameras, lenses and attachments
- Assemble film cameras, lenses and attachments
- Assist Camera Operators During Line Up and Rehearsal
- Assist Camera Operators During Shooting
- Assist camera operators to record and review images
- Assist gallery operations and the production of multi-source recorded productions
Where this can lead
Associate Audio Content Coordinator
Your journey starts here, but where it goes is really up to you. We're here to provide the opportunities and support, but your curiosity and drive will be the real engine of your career. The audio landscape is only getting bigger, and you could be a key player in shaping its future.
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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 ABC Level 3 Award in Broadcasting
15 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Skills and Education Group Awards.
- Acoustics and Recording
- Camera Operations for Film and Video
- Context and History of Sound Language
- Creating Sound Design for a Professional Context
- Developing Imagery and Sequences for Film and Video
- Digital Video Editing
and 9 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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