Pearson EDI · RQF Level 2
Pearson EDI Level 2 Certificate in Technical Theatre Support: Sound, Light and Stage (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits25
- Guided learning79 hours
- Units in this qualification39
Awarded by Pearson EDI · 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 EDI 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.
Assist with the running of a live performanceReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Implement pre-show checks
- Implement appropriate cues
- Implement pre-show checks
- Implement effective cues
Awareness of health and safety in the creative and cultural sectorReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relevant health and safety regulations in the Creative and Cultural sector
- Comply with relevant health and safety procedures
Cleaning up own work areaReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand organisational policies and procedures relating to the safe use of cleaning materials
- Safely use appropriate cleaning materials
- Safely dispose of and store materials as directed
Contribute to good working relationshipsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to communicate effectively with colleagues
- Develop and maintain good working relationships during the production process
Contribute to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adultsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand their organisation’s policies, procedures and practices for safe working with children, young people and vulnerable adults
- Understand the importance of working in partnership with other organisations to safeguard children, young people and vulnerable adults
- Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused or harmed
Contribute to the development of a sound brief in live performancesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a sound brief in line with legislative and organisational requirements
- Implement research in the development of a sound design
- Implement research to develop a sound design
- Develop a sound design in accordance with resource constraints
Contribute to the interpreting of designs for sets and propsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Know the constraints that impact on the design of sets and props
- Understand how to extract information to contribute to the interpretation of sets and props
- Contribute to the interpretation of designs for sets and props
Contribute to the planning of the sound requirements for a productionReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Know the design concepts of the production
- Engage in the sound design process
- Know the constraints that impact on the sound design process
- Know the principles of sound design
- Contribute to the planning of sound requirements
Contribute to the technical production of a live performanceReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of team members involved with the technical production of a live performance
- Understand the processes involved with developing technical production requirements
- Develop ideas for technical production requirements
- Work with other team members to develop technical production requirements
Ensure the safe and efficient loading of vehicles used within the entertainment industryReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Know how legislation and regulations impact on the loading of vehicles
- Know how vehicles can be loaded safely
- Load a vehicle safely and efficiently
Ensure the safe and efficient un-loading of vehicles used within the entertainment industryReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Know how vehicles can be un-loaded safely
- Un-load vehicles safely and efficiently
Fit wireless equipment for a live performanceReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare wireless equipment for use
- Understand how wireless equipment operates to its optimum performance
- Work with performers to fit wireless equipment
- Prepare wireless equipment for use
- Fit wireless equipment to operate at its optimum performance
- Work effectively with performers to fit wireless equipment
Getting in, setting up equipment, and getting out in technical theatreReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the requirements and procedures for “getting in” and “getting out”
- Confirm the activities to be undertaken and prepare for “getting in” and “getting out”
- Carry out activities as directed safely and appropriately
- Check and store equipment and items
Give customers a positive impression of yourself and your organisation.Real unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Establish rapport with customers
- Respond appropriately to customers
- Communicate information to customers
- Understand how to give customers a positive impression of themselves and the organisation
Identifying and resolving common faults in stage and lighting equipment in theatre and live performanceReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Know how and when to report common faults
- Check light and stage equipment for faults
- Monitor and resolve common and routine faults as appropriate to their area of responsibility
Install electrical equipment for a live performanceReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legislation and regulations that impact on the installation of electrical equipment
- Know how different electrical equipment operates
- Safely install electrical equipment
- Install electrical equipment prior to a live performance
Keeping up to date with technical and production developments in the live artsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Gather a range of information about technical and production developments in the live arts
- Analyse information and use it to inform their work
Manage and market own freelance servicesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Market own services
- Manage own performance
- Manage own systems, accounts and records
- Manage own contracts
Manual handling and lifting loadsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand procedures and instructions for handling and lifting loads
- Understand how to prepare for handling and lifting loads
- Handle and lift loads
Operate sound for a live performanceReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Operate sound equipment for a live performance
- Use a cue sheet
- Understand the basic principles of sound control
- Operate sound equipment during a live performance
Operating a follow spot for a live performanceReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the lighting requirements for the performance in relation to the operation of follow spots
- Prepare the follow spots and carry out all pre-show checks appropriately
- Operate the follow spots appropriately and safely throughout the performance
- Deal with problems and emergency situations
Operating lighting control systemsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the lighting requirements for the performance
- Prepare simple equipment required for the performance and carry out all pre-show checks appropriately
- Operate the equipment appropriately and safely throughout the performance
- Deal with problems and emergency situations
Pre-set the stage and position scenic components during a live performanceReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Pre-set and position scenic components in a safe manner
- Pre-set and position scenic components during a performance
Prepare flying equipment and components for use during a live performanceReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare flying equipment for use
- Safely operate flying equipment
- Prepare flying equipment for use
- Safely operate flying equipment during live performances
Prepare props for live performanceReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the prop needs of the production
- Organise props to effectively support the production
- Understand the parametres which impact on the use of theatre props
- Prepare props for theatre performances
Prepare special effects for a live performanceReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of using special effects in live performances
- Install special effects
- Respond to faults identified with special effects
- Prepare special effects for live performances
- Install special effects
- Check the safe operation of special effects
Prepare the operation of sound for a live performanceReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of operating sound for a live performance
- Prepare sound equipment for use in a live performance
- Work with others to effectively prepare sound equipment
Provide amplified sound for a live performanceReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Provide amplified sound
- Understand how amplification equipment operates
- Check that amplification equipment is ready for use
- Provide amplified sound
- Correct defects in amplified sound
Reading and interpreting lighting plans for a live performanceReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand a lighting plan for a given live performance
Rehearse sound requirementsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Implement a sound rehearsal
- Implement a sound rehearsal
Select and apply appropriate knots for securing loads in a live performance venueReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to safely tie knots for use in a theatre
- Tie knots to secure loads in a theatre
Selecting and using safe systems for working at heightReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legislation, policies and practices for working safely at height including the use of personal fall protection systems (PFPS)
- Confirm the activities and responsibilities for carrying out a particular task at height including any associated risks
- Select and use appropriate equipment safely when working at height
- Respond safely and effectively in the event of an emergency
Set up and check sound equipmentReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Set up sound equipment
- Know the characteristics of sound equipment
- Set up sound equipment in accordance with regulations
- Set up sound equipment
- Check the performance of sound equipment
Setting up lightingReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Clarify the requirements and plans for items and equipment
- Assemble items and equipment in the correct position
- Check and that items and equipment are appropriately operational
- Work with others to ensure that all activities are carried out safely and meet requirements
Support the implementation of rehearsalsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Assemble a prompt script
- Monitor the technical components of rehearsals
- Understand how to support the co-ordination of a rehearsal
- Assemble a prompt script
- Obtain resources to support the implementation of rehearsals
- Assist with the implementation of a rehearsal
Understanding the core knowledge needed by those who work with children and young peopleReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of effective communication and engagement with children, young people and their families/carers
- Understand the development of children and young people
- Understand the importance of safeguarding children and young people
- Understand the types of transitions affecting children and young people
- Understand the nature and importance of their role in multi-agency and integrated working in meeting the needs of children and young people
- Understand the importance of information sharing
Understanding the core knowledge needed by those who work with children and young people, and its impactReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to promote effective communication and engagement with children, young people and their families/carers
- Understand the development of, and the impact of this upon, children and young people
- Understand the importance of safeguarding children and young people, and associated responsibilities and procedures
- Understand how to support children and young people through transitions, and circumstances requiring specialist support
- Understand sources of information regarding individual children, young people and families/carers, and the importance of effective information sharing
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Use drawings and specifications to inform technical preparations for live performanceReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Use drawings and specifications to inform technical preparations
- Understand the organisational procedures that impact on the use of drawings and specifications
- Use drawings and specifications to inform technical preparations for live entertainment
Using tools and equipment for construction and maintenanceReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the organisational policies, procedures and legislation relevant to the tools and equipment they use
- Accurately interpret and clarify relevant information relating to the work to be carried out
- Use a selection of given tools and equipment safely and appropriately and as directed
- Identify and report/resolve any problems relating to the equipment they are using
- Safely disassemble and store tools and equipment after use
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.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
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
The Evidence Evaluator
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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.
- Assist live multi-source productions
- Clean up own work area
- Connect wiring systems and equipment for a live performance
- Connect wiring systems, wiring enclosures and equipment
- Create Physical Special Effects Props
- Create Practical Fire Effects
- Create explosive and pyrotechnic effects
- Develop Sound Designs for Live Productions
Where this can lead
Production Assistant / AV Technician
Your journey starts here, learning the foundations. The events industry is a vibrant, challenging, and incredibly rewarding place to build a career. If you're willing to put in the hard work, stay curious, and embrace the chaos, there's a huge world of opportunity waiting for you.
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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 EDI Level 2 Certificate in Technical Theatre Support: Sound, Light and Stage (QCF)
39 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson EDI.
- Assist with the running of a live performance
- Awareness of health and safety in the creative and cultural sector
- Cleaning up own work area
- Contribute to good working relationships
- Contribute to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults
- Contribute to the development of a sound brief in live performances
and 33 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.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.