AIM Qualifications · RQF Level 2
AIM Awards Level 2 Diploma in Skills for the Creative Industries
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits30
- Guided learning266 hours
- Units in this qualification202
Awarded by AIM Qualifications · on the Ofqual register
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units AIM Qualifications 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.
Appreciating the Styles and History of MusicReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about well-known composers of classical music
- Know about types of classical music
- Know about types of popular music
Approaches to Craft – Function and ObjectReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the notion of crafts
- Use different techniques to hand build a functional object
- Produce objects using a wheel
- Decorate an object
- Plan ideas in 2D
- Understand Health and Safety issues in the studio
Approaches to Design – Making CeramicsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about designing ceramics
- Be able make ceramics using model and mould techniques
- Use a mould to produce a slip cast ceramic object
- Decorate a ceramic object
- Know about Health and Safety issues in the studio
Approaches to Design – ResearchReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand industrial ceramic design
- Carry out research
- Develop ideas in 2D
- Understand Health and Safety issues
Art & Design: Explore Mixed MediaReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Develop ideas for work in mixed media
- Produce work in mixed media
- Comment on own work
Art History in PracticeReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principle of Art History
- Understand the principles of an Art Historical Context
- Understand the significance of Art Historical research in its wider context
- Understand the changing nature of the artwork
Art and Design: Colour Theory and DesignReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the principles of colour theory and application
- Recognise problems related to colour mixing
- Know about colour
Art and Design: Colour Theory and DesignReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the terminology and concepts employed by colour
- Know about the elements of the colour spectrum
- Know about the relevance of colour in different historical periods
- Know about the psychological associations linked to colour
- Know about the spatial impact of colour
- Recognise the psychological associations linked to colour
Assisting in Inclusive Dance LeadershipReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Assist in workshop planning
- Introduce a workshop
- Facilitate a small group during a workshop
- Review a workshop
Awareness of health and safety in the Creative Media SectorReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relevant health and safety regulations in the Creative Media sector.
- Comply with relevant health and safety procedures.
Backstage Theatre SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about backstage roles.
- Work backstage safely.
- Know specialist terminology relating to backstage work.
- Use technical skills backstage.
- Assess own technical theatre skills.
Build and Maintain Business RelationshipsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Establish potential business contacts
- Build relationships with customers
- Build trust in business relationships
Cake Decoration SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out cake decoration work
- Present cake decoration work
- Evaluate cake decoration work
Camera and Darkroom SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about health and safety rules
- Know about camera functions
- Know about the processing of black and white film
- Demonstrate own camera and darkroom skills
Choose supplies and suppliers for your businessReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare a schedule of the supplies needed for your business
- Purchase supplies for your business
- Set up stock control of your business supplies
Classic Rock Stylistic Techniques for the Electric GuitarReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Perform in the Classic Rock style
- Use Classic Rock stylistic techniques
- Use aural skills
Combined Arts and CollaborationReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the reasons for combined arts and collabouration
- Understand what is required for interdisciplinary working
- Know what support is available for collabourative working on arts projects and/or between art disciplines
- Know about the value and/or purpose of combined arts and collabouration
Combined Arts and CollaborationReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the reasons for combined arts and collabouration
- Understand what is required for interdisciplinary working
- Know what support is available for collabourative working on arts projects and/or between art disciplines
- Know about the value/purpose of combined arts and collabouration
Communicating and Presenting ideas in the Creative IndustriesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Communicate in the workplace
- Present own ideas in differentenvironments
- Understand the importance of effective feedback in the process of communication of ideas
Communication Skills for Group and TeamworkReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the roles and responsibilities associated with working in a group
- Communicate with others in a group situation
- Co-operate with others when working in a group situation
Composing LyricsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the skills to write lyrics.
Composing MusicReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about musical devices in composition
- Compose a piece of music
- Know about the compositional process
Composing Music _Ideas_Real unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate skills to create musical ideas.
Constructed TextilesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use research material
- Understand the importance of exploration and experimentation
- Use technical equipment to express ideas within constructed textiles
- Understand historical and contemporary practice in constructed textiles
- Understand Health and Safety issues
Constructed Textiles: MethodsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know the value of sketchbook methodology
- Experiment with constructed textiles
- Use technical equipment within constructed textiles
- Understand historical and contemporary practice pertaining to constructed textiles
- Understand Health and Safety issues
Contemporary DanceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Participate in contemporary technique classes
- Apply physical skills in class
- Reproduce patterns of movement
- Understand individual technical progress
Contextual Studies – The Early Twentieth CenturyReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the influences of the early twentieth century on the nature of art and its practice
- Know about the links between artistic production and other socio-cultural concerns
- Undertake research
- Understand Health and Safety procedures
Costume for PerformanceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the health and safety procedures required for costume for performance
- Understand how costume can enhance a performance and production
- Use research and notation to develop ideas for costume
- Select accessories for performance situations
Costume for PerformanceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about health and safety procedures required for costume for performance
- Understand how costume can enhance the performance and the overall production
- Understand the value of supporting research and notation for costume for performance
- Understand how to assemble costume from wardrobe
- Accessorise costume
Craft Workshop PracticeReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and practices of workshop safety.
- Select and use basic craft tools.
- Select and use a range of basic craft materials.
- Follow given instructions.
Creating and Publishing WebsitesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use structures and styles for website creation
- Use software toolsto prepare content for websites
- Publish a website
Creative Craft SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the health and safety requirements related to creative activity
- Develop own ideas for creative activity
- Experiment with media using a sketchbook and/or journal
- Use a range of materials and equipment
- Understand techniques that can be used to undertake creative activity
Creative EmbroideryReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a simple design
- Use embroidery techniques to interpret designs
- Know about the principles of colour in design
- Use decorative and functional stitches
- Know about tools and equipment suitable for embroidery
- Understand health and safety procedures
Creative Media Industry AwarenessReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know how the Creative Media sector is structured
- Understand a specific Creative Media project life cycle
- Understand the structure and functions of a typical creative media organisation
DJ SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about DJ equipment
- Safely set up DJ equipment
- Use headphones and turntable
Design ProjectReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Source research material for a design project
- Plan design project work to meet deadlines
- Translate project ideas into final product
- Complete a design project in line with it’s project plan
- Understand the need to reflect on own design work
- Understand Health and Safety issues
Design ProjectReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Source research material for a design project
- Plan work to meet deadlines using project management skills
- Translate research and design development work into a final product
- Be able follow a project plan to meet a design brief
- Reflect on own design work
- Understand Health and Safety procedures
Design ProjectReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Source research material for a design project
- Record ideas of the development of a design project
- Plan design project work to meet deadlines
- Complete a design project
- Reflect on own work
Design StyleReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the major characteristics of design for a range of styles and/or movements
- Understand terminology relevant to design practice and history
- Understand the key issues influencing development in design styles
- Extend own critical awareness and design vocabulary
- Undertake research for design assignments
Design StyleReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the design characteristics of a given object or image
- Understand basic terminology relevant to design practice and history
- Recognise the key influences on the design of a given object or image
- Reflect on design style
- Record information and reflections on design style
Design for PerformanceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Research and develop design ideas
- Meet deadlines
- Work as part of a team in a design for performance context
- Understand health and safety guidelines
- Plan the allocation of budgets for a design for performance
Design for PerformanceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Work to a budget
- Understand how set design is used as a tool for communication with audiences
- Follow health and safety guidelines
- Translate 2D set ideas into 3D stage areas
- Reflect on finished work
Develop and Adapt Sculpture IdeasReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Develop sculpture ideas creatively
- Adapt sculpture ideas
- Know about safe working environments
Develop performance skillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of practice in developing performance skills
- Develop performance skills
Develop your business ideaReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to develop Your business idea
- Understand the market for Your business idea
Develop your business ideaReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate how to evaluate your business idea
- Demonstrate how to assess the market for your business idea
Developing Performance Improvisation TechniquesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Be able develop performance ideas by responding to stimuli
- Use improvisation to explore material
- Reflect on performance
- Know about health and safety procedures
Digital Imaging and PrintingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand digital imaging and printing
- Produce digital images and prints
- Understand photographic practice and health and safety procedures
Digital and Converging Technology in the Creative Media IndustriesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the application of digital technology across the creative media industry
- Understand key copyright issues affecting the use of digital technology in the creative media industry
- Understand the implications of converging technology in the creative media industry
- Test an idea for exploiting converging technology
Discovering Arts and CultureReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Research a chosen theme from any culture in any area of the arts
- Understand the context in which a chosen artist/s, movement or theme developed
- Understand the characteristics and style of a chosen artistic period, movement or theme
- Give a personal response to a chosen artist/s, movement, or theme chosen
Discovering MusicReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about classical music
- Know about types of popular music
- Know about the production of sound in musical instruments
- Understand the basic principles of music theory and notation
DrawingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about drawing media
- Know about drawing and composition problems
- Know about the characteristics of line
- Understand the importance of keeping a personal sketchbook
- Understand Health and Safety
Drawing Application MethodsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Explore drawing techniques and media
- Understand formal elements and surface qualities
- Produce a personal response
- Understand Health and Safety procedures
Drawing Development MethodsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about different drawing media
- Know about drawing on different surfaces
- Understand three-dimensional form, mass, space, structure and scale
- Make drawings at varying tempos
- Understand the value of sketchbook methodology
- Understand Health and Safety procedures and safe studio practice
Drawing Methods for PaintingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use drawing media
- Use different drawing surfaces
- Know about the use of drawing in the preparation and making of paintings
- Use line and tone
- Know about the value of sketchbooks
- Understand the relationship between drawing and painting
- Know about Health and Safety procedures
Drawing and Digital Art SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use basic hand drawing skills
- Demonstrate the use of basic drawing skills using digital software or drawing tablet
- Demonstrate the use of digital art techniques
Dressmaking SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and produce dressmaking work
- Critically evaluate own final dressmaking work
Embroidery SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and produce embroidery work
- Critically evaluate final embroidery work
Encountering Artwork/Art ObjectsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relationship between an individual and their encounter/ engagement with an artwork/art object
- Understand the encounter of the artwork/art object in its wider environment
- Understand influence and engagement with the artwork/art object
- Understand the changing viewpoint of artwork/art object over time
Estimate Financial Needs for a BusinessReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate financial options to fund a business
- Monitor income and expenditure against business objectives
- Monitor profit and loss for own business
Estimate Financial Needs for a BusinessReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Estimate the finances needed to fund a business
- Estimate income and expenditure for a business
- Estimate profit and loss for a business
Exploratory Drawing Methods - Using Textile Media and ApplicationsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Develop visual work through experimentation
- Use drawing work within the specialism of textile design
- Understand Health and Safety issues
Explore craft ideasReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Explore craft ideas
Explore graphic processes, materials and techniquesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Apply graphic processes, materials and resources
Explore your business motivesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Identify your needs and aspirations when setting up a business
- Be aware of how your own role can affect your personal and business needs
Exploring Dance SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Take part in practical dance workshops
- Develop a dance piece for performance
- Use dance skills in performance
Floral Design – Traditional Floral ArrangementsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Create simple designs for traditional floral arrangements
- Prepare to make traditional arrangements to selected designs
- Use resources safely and effectively
- Make traditional arrangements
Garment Construction TechniquesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Join fabric when constructing a garment
- Distribute fullness
- Hem and edge fabric
- Use fastenings
- Know about health and safety requirements in the sewing environment
Group Devised Project – Drama SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Realise a script and/or text
- Plan for production
- Review and revise processes and decisions
Group Devised Project – Drama SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know the value of teamwork in terms of moving a project forward
- Know about the need to structure performance work to meet the needs of an audience
- Use scripting conventions
Group Devised Project – Drama SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Take direction
- Use teamwork skills to move a performance project forward
- Structure performance work to meet the needs of an audience
- Use scripting conventions
Heavy Metal Stylistic Techniques for the Electric GuitarReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Perform in the Heavy style
- Use Heavy Metal stylistic techniques
- Use aural skills
Improve your business skillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to assess the benefits of improving your business skills and knowledge
- Understand how to develop and monitor a plan for improving your business skills and knowledge
Improve your business skillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how developing your skills and knowledge can help your business
- Understand how to improve your business skills and knowledge
Improving Own Learning and PerformanceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about different ways and areas of learning which reflect own likes and/or dislikes
- Use own strengths, aptitudes and skills to determine learning targets
- Plan how to achieve learning targets
- Review own performance against action plan
Improvisation and Performance SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Devise performance structures through improvisation
- Use performance skills
- Understand the functions of a brief
- Contribute to a group performance
Improvisation and Performance SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of improvisation
- Devise performance through the process of improvisation
- Know about the functions of a given brief
- Contribute to a group devised performance
- Understand the value of evaluation
Interpersonal SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Identify personal skills
- Know about stress in self
- Know about different types of criticism
- Know about body language
- Know about respond to different behaviours
Interview TechniquesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Collate information required to prepare for an interview
- Prepare for questions in aninterview
- Present him/herself effectively in an interview situation
Introduction to Film MakingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Apply film making styles
- Use equipment to produce a film
- Use film making vocabulary
Investigating Film MusicReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the linear development of film music
- Be able distinguish between film genres
- Distinguish between diagetic and non–diagetic film music
- Distinguish between original score for film and adaptation of pre-existing music
- Know about the use of music within film
Leadership SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key characteristics of an effective leader
- Understand the skills involved in being an effective leader
- Know about the development of the relationship of leader and team member
- Lead
Life DrawingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the principles underpinning life drawing
- Use proportion when drawing from a life model
- Know about the use of line and colour
- Know about the importance of keeping a personal sketchbook
- Work within identified Health and Safety procedures
Life DrawingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about proportion when drawing from a life model
- Recognise characteristics of line and tone
- Know the importance of keeping a personal sketchbook
- Know about Health and Safety in a studio
Lighting in PhotographyReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about lighting for photography
- Use lighting sources for photography
- Know about safe photographic practice
Lighting in PhotographyReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand lighting sources for photography
- Know about light metreing techniques
- Use lighting sources for photography
- Understand safe photographic practice
Linear DrawingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Translate three -dimensional subjects into two-dimensional linear drawings
- Use linear drawing
- Know about Health and Safety procedures
Linear DrawingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Translate three-dimensional subjects into two-dimensional linear drawings
- Use linear methods and techniques
- Understand Health and Safety procedures
Make-up for PerformanceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Follow health and safety procedures for performance hair and/or make-up
- Know how hair and/or make-up can enhance stage performance and the overall stage production
- Know the value of supporting research and notation for performance hair and/or make-up
- Apply performance hair and/or make-up to create different effects
Make-up for PerformanceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Follow health and safety procedures for performance make-up
- Know how make-up can enhance stage performance
- Apply make-up to create different effects
- Apply products safely to remove performance make-up
Making CeramicsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the properties of clay
- Use basic forming techniques
- Use of decorative techniques
- Know about the making, drying and firing processes when working with clay
- Know about health and safety procedures when making ceramics
Making DanceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Warm up and cool down
- Create movement phrases
- Combine movement phrases
- Dance with a partner or small group
Making DanceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Create movement phrases
- Warm up
- Combine movement phrases
- Dance with a partner or small group
Making Decorated TextilesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Make simple designs for decorated textiles
- Make samples of decorated textiles
- Work safely and effectively
Making MosaicsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Design a piece of work suitable for mosaic
- Work with tesserae
- Use glues and adhesives to lay and seal the tesserae
- Grout up the final panel
- Understand Health and Safety procedures and safe studio practice
Materials ExplorationReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Collect and record information
- Experiment with ideas, techniques and materials
- Know about current market trends and preferences within design applications
- Recognise conventions
- Know about Health and Safety procedures
Mathematics - Shape and SpaceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of transformations of shapes. (N2.2)
- Calculate the perimiter, area, volume and surface area of shapes and solids. (N2.2, N3.2)
- Understand the concept of tessellation. (N2.2)
- Use the properties associated with parallel and intersecting lines. (N2.2)
- Describe the position of an object using bearings. (N2.2)
- Determine the locus of an object moving subject to a given rule (N3.2)
- Use the rules of trigonometry. (N3.2)
Measuring and Cutting Skills for Garment ConstructionReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about measuring for garment construction
- Make adjustments in garment construction
- Know about preparing fabrics for specific purposes
- Use marking methods for fabric
Media Content Design and Production Personal Project ManagementReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Plan design project work, setting realistic goals and timelines to meet specified deadlines
- Translate initial project ideas and concepts into a tangible and finished final product, demonstrating creative and technical skills
Mixed Media – CollageReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to create collages
- Create collages
- Review own work
- Know about health and safety requirements in the workshop
Modelling with ClayReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for modelling
- Know the principles of working in two and three dimensions
- Use tools and techniques for modelling clay
- Carry out Health and Safety procedures
Music for PerformanceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know the part music can play in creating mood and atmosphere
- Demonstrate music making skills
- Know the use of rhythm and tempo
- Select music appropriate for use in performance
Musical Ensemble PerformanceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about rehearsal schedules
- Play as part of an ensemble
- Review own performance
Numeracy in ContextReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Apply numeracy to practical situations. (N2.1, N3.1)
- Plan the project. (N2.1, N3.1)
- Implement the plan. (N2.1, N2.2, N2.3, N3.1, N3.2, N3.3)
- Interpret the results and draw conclusions. (N2.3, N3.2, N3.3)
Organising a Community Arts Activity or ProjectReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know the value-based purpose of a community organised arts activity or project
- Know about the development stages of a community organised arts activity or project
- Know the competencies required by a community organiser for and arts activity or project
- Understand the significance of the outcomes of a community organised arts activity or project
PaintingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use painting materials and equipment
- Use painting techniques and equipment
- Follow Health and Safety procedures
Painting Methods - Mixed MediaReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use mixed media methods
- Use mixed-media materials, techniques and methods
- Know the value of supporting research and notation
- Produce work which shows choice of form and content
- Know about Health and Safety procedures
Painting Methods - Organising ImagesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Organise pictorial images
- Employ working methods through composition in both experimental and finalised artwork
- Know the importance of supporting research and notation
- Produce work, which shows choice of form and content
- Know about Health and Safety procedures
Painting Methods - Painting the Human FigureReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the key concepts involved in the depiction and representation of the human figure
- Understand the human figure in painting
- Understand the value of supporting research and notation
- Produce work which shows choice of form and content
- Know about Health and Safety issues
Painting Methods - Pictorial LanguageReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about approaches to pictorial language
- Know the value of sketchbook methodology
- Produce work, which shows choice of form and content
- Know about Health and Safety
Painting Methods - Surface and FormReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate ways of inflecting the painted surface
- Know about surface form and painted effects
- Know the value of sketchbook methodology
- Produce finalised artwork, using visual information from different sources
- Know about colour theory and mixing
- Know about Health and Safety procedures
Painting Methods - Using Pictorial SystemsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use composition and two-dimensional space
- Use pictorial systems and the 2-dimensional organisation
- Know the importance of supporting research and notation
- Know about aspects of organising visual images, content and subject matter
- Understand Health and Safety procedures
Painting Methods and AppropriationReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the historical contexts of painting
- Work practically using formal means of two-dimensional image making
- Translate ideas and images to through pictorial juxtaposition
- Research and collect information for ideas development
- Know about Health and Safety procedures
Painting in Water Based MediaReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Be able prepare for watercolour painting
- Work from direct observation
- Gather information for reference
- Know about Health and Safety procedures
Participating in a Vocational TasterReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about different job roles within a vocational area
- Use relevant skills, knowledge and personal qualities in a vocational context
- Know about the health and safety requirements relevant to a vocational context
- Reflect on suitability for job role in chosen vocational context
Performing Physical TheatreReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Engage safely in physical theatre
- Demonstrate basic movement for physical theatre
- Choreograph simple physical performance sequences
- Review performance
Photography - Using a Camera and AccessoriesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use a camera and accessories to create images
- Frame the image
- Transfer images from a camera for printing
- Know about Health and Safety procedures
Photography – Using a TripodReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use a tripod with a camera
- Understand relevant Health and Safety issues and procedures
Photography: A Creative Approach to Picture MakingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Plan a photographic assignment
- Know the value of research
- Apply a negotiated approach to a picture making assignment
- Put together images
- Know about Health and Safety procedures
Pitching a Media Product Idea to an AudienceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Pitch an idea for a media product to an audience
- Produce a written/illustrated document to accompany a pitch
- Critique a media product idea and pitch
- Reflect on own idea and pitch performance
Plan to Sell a Product or ServiceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Assess the methods for selling business products or services
- Set sales targets for a business
Plan to Sell a Product or ServiceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Review methods of selling business products or services
- Set sales targets for a business
Plan, Lead and Evaluate a Series of Dance SessionsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Plan a series of dance sessions.
- Lead a series of dance sessions.
- Understand the purpose of feedback.
- Evaluate a dance session.
Plan, Lead and Review a Dance ActivityReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know what is involved in planning a dance activity.
- Plan a dance activity.
- Assist in leading a dance activity.
- Review a dance activity.
Pop Stylistic Techniques for the Electric GuitarReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Perform in the Pop style
- Use Pop stylistic techniques
- Use aural skills
Practical Presentation SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Plan a presentation
- Deliver a presentation
- Reflect on own presentation
Preparation for Employment in the Creative and Cultural IndustriesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise employment opportunities in the creative and cultural industries
- Recognise own strengths and weaknesses
- Achieve own career goals
- Understand the value of CVs and portfolios in personal and career development
Preparation for Garment ConstructionReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about sewing notions relevant to a given task
- Select fabric and patterns for a given purpose
- Prepare a pattern and fabric for garment construction
Preparation for an Recruitment InterviewReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of an interview
- Understand how to promote self at an interview
Prepare a Plan for a BusinessReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Start planning for a business
- Develop a plan in running a business
Preparing Performing Arts WorkReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know the stages involved in the preparation of performing arts work
- Explore ideas for performing arts work
- Carry out a role in the preparation of performing arts work
Preparing for Employment in the Creative IndustriesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the creative media employment market place
- Promote self
Principles of Animation for a Media ProductionReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the basic principles of animation
- Use the basic principles of animation to create an animated sequence in a media product
Printed TextilesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Utilise research materials to develop ideas in printed textiles
- Use printed textile techniques and materials
- Know about printed textile materials
- Resolve work in printed textiles
Printmaking - Experimental Methods in Relief PrintingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Make print using elements of found or textured material
- Use printmaking tools and equipment to make a print
- Use hand-burnishing to make proofs
- Plan and carry through a print
- Know the functions of paper in the relief printing process
- Know about Health and Safety procedures
Printmaking Methods - EtchingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Generate monotypes for transfer to plate
- Lay a hard and a soft ground
- Know about the pictorial problems
- Produce a plate
- Know about the value of sketchbook methodology
- Know about the importance of maintaining good standards of cleanliness in the Print Room
- Know about Health and Safety procedures
Printmaking Methods - Relief PrintingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the techniques for relief printing
- Make a personal colour chart
- Know about the value of sketchbook methodology
- Know about the importance of maintaining good standards of cleanliness in the Print Room
- Know about Health and Safety procedures and safe studio practice
Printmaking Methods – DrypointReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the characteristics of metals
- Make proofs on the different types of paper used in printmaking
- Mark and print a dry-pointed plate
- Know the value of sketchbook methodology
- Know about the importance of maintaining good standards of cleanliness in the Print Room
- Know about Health and Safety procedures
Printmaking – Printing with Found MaterialsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Make simple designs of prints using found materials
- Prepare to use found materials to make prints
- Work safely and effectively
- Make the prints using found materials
Printmaking – Research Methods for PrintmakingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use supporting research and notation to develop ideas and techniques
- Make prints
- Know about Health and Safety procedures and safe studio practice
Problem Solving in the WorkplaceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about problems in the workplace
- Identify ways to solve problems in the workplace
- Know about ways of working collabouratively to solve a problem
- Reflect on the effectiveness of the solution to the problem
Professional Behaviour in the Creative IndustriesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the appropriate conduct for a Creative Industries workplace
- Plan and manage a workload
- Understand the importance of continuous professional development
Professional Development in the Performing Arts IndustryReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about career and progression opportunities within the performing arts industry
- Design and monitor a professional development plan
Promoting a Performing Arts EventReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the promotion of a specific performance or event
- Contribute to the promotion of a specific performance or event
- Assess the success of the promotion of a specific performance or event
Recognising Employment OpportunitiesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about different forms of employment
- Know about the labour market
Reflective Logs and PortfoliosReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Create and maintain a purposeful reflective log
- Create and maintain a portfolio of own work
Rehearsal SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of rehearsing
- Plan a rehearsal
- Use rehearsal techniques
- Review the rehearsal process
Research Methods for PaintingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about methods for the use of observation and drawn, painted and photographic images as providers of suitable information from which to paint
- Know the importance of supporting research and notation
- Use visual information from a variety of sources
- Know about Health and Safety issues and safe studio practice
Research and Design SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the concepts of style in a design historical context
- Know about design methods
- Collect, file, collate and store research material
- Know about the need for professional research and procurement skills
- Carry out Health and Safety procedures
Research for Creative Media ProductionReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use research methods and techniques to gather material for a media production
- Use research methods and techniques to investigate an existing media product
- Know about research methods and techniques
- Present results of research
Respond to a Commercial Cake Decoration BriefReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Respond to a commercial cake decoration brief
- Fulfil a commercial cake decoration brief
- Fulfil a cake decoration brief
- Know health and safety requirements
Respond to a Commercial Dressmaking BriefReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Respond to a commercial dressmaking brief
- Select and evaluate tools, techniques and materials to fulfil a commercial dressmaking brief
- Fulfil the brief utilising the characteristics of materials and techniques
- Know health and safety requirements
Select and Use Resources for SilversmithingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Select resources to develop silversmithing skills
- Use silversmithing skills
Select and Use Resources for Sugar Decorative CraftsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Select resources to develop sugar decorative skills
- Use sugar decorative skills
Select and Use Resources for Toy MakingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Select resources to develop toy making skills
- Use toy making skills
Select and Use Resources to Design CardsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Select resources to design cards
- Design cards
Select and Use Resources to Develop Photography SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Select resources for photography
- Use basic photography skills
Select and Use Resources to Make ModelsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Select resources to make models
- Make models
Select and Use Resources to Make PotteryReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Select resources for pottery
- Make models
Sewing Machine TechniquesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Thread up a sewing machine
- Understand how to use tools and techniques
- Produce samples showing different stitching effects
- Understand Health and Safety procedures
Silversmithing SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and produce silversmithing work
- Critically evaluate final silversmithing work
Solo PerformanceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know the basics of own instrument
- Develop practice routines
- Perform a range of different styles
- Know about playing musically
Sound for VideoReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and function of diagetic and non-diagetic sound
- Source appropriate sound accompaniment for a video production
- Create and record appropriate sound accompaniment for a video production
- Integrate diegetic and non diegetic sound into a video product
- Review own sound source/creation work
Stained GlassReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Translate images and/or patterns for the production of a stained glass panel
- Use tools and equipment
- Select materials
- Use techniques in assembling stained glass panels
- Understand safe working practices and carry out Health and Safety procedures
Stained Glass Work SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and prepare to make final stained glass work
- Critically evaluate final stained glass work
StatisticsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Collect and collate statistical data.
- Represent data in statistical diagrams and charts.
- Solve problems using the probabilities of everyday events.
- Calculate different measures of central tendency and dispersion.
Surface Pattern Methods - Pattern RepeatReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use research material
- Know about the need for competent use of textile techniques and media
- Use pattern repeat in the production of textile designs
- Understand the problems associated with pattern repeat
- Know about Health and Safety issues
Teamwork SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to the setting of team and individual goals
- Know about own role responsibility within the team
- Plan and undertake team activities
- Review team activities
Teamwork SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to the setting of team and individual goals
- Understand own and others’ responsibilities in achieving the team’s goals
- Plan and undertake team activities
- Review the team activities
Technical Skills for PerformanceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the roles of technical support in the performance arts
- Set up and use production equipment
- Understand health and safety regulations relevant to technical support in the performance arts
Technical Skills for PerformanceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the technical requirements of a performance
- Use technical skills in a performance arts context
- Employ technical skills in order to enhance creative performance
Textile DesignReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about surface pattern design for textiles
- Use basic techniques
- Understand Health and Safety procedures
Textile Design Skills Development - Production RealisationReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Execute a finished piece of textile design work
- Translate research and design development work to final production
- Use time management skills
- Understand Health and Safety issues
Textile Workshop - Techniques and ProcessesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Document material to support textile design and production
- Produce experimental samples of textile design
- Understand different ways to solve problems with textiles
- Understand Health and Safety issues
The Context of PerformanceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the context of performance material.
- Contextualise performance material for a contemporary audience.
The Origins of Modern ArtReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the development of the history of practice in the origins of Modern Art
- Research and develop ideas about the origins of Modern Art
The Photographic ProjectReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Research for a photographic project
- Undertake a photographic project
- Apply safe photographic practice
The Theory of MusicReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Notate a simple piece of music
- Know about scales
- Know about musical features
Themed Face PaintingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for themed face painting
- Carry out themed face painting
Tonal Drawing MethodsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use media for tonal drawing
- Create a three dimensional form on a two dimensional surface
- Know how light and shade reveals form
Use Materials and Resources to Develop Cake Decoration TechniquesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use materials and resources to develop cake decoration techniques
- Decorate cakes
Use Materials and Resources to Develop Ceramics TechniquesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use materials and resources to develop ceramics techniques
Use Materials and Resources to Develop Embroidery TechniquesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use material and resources to develop embroidery techniques
- Embroider using different techniques and materials
Use Materials and Resources to Develop Floral Crafts TechniquesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use materials and resources to develop floral crafts techniques
Use Materials and Resources to Develop Photography TechniquesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use materials and resources to develop photography techniques
Use Materials and Resources to Develop Silversmithing TechniquesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use material and resources to develop silversmithing techniques
- Use skills in silversmithing
Use materials and resources to develop ceramics techniquesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use materials and resources to develop ceramics techniques
Use materials and resources to develop floral crafts techniquesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use materials and resources to develop floral crafts techniques
Use materials and resources to develop photography techniquesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use materials and resources to develop photography techniques
Using Computers in the ArtsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Initialise software for use in the arts
- Use tools for use in the arts
- Edit items to support the development of ideas
- Work with files
- Know the possibilities and limitations of the software to achieve output expectations
- Understand Health and Safety procedures
Using Sampling Techniques for Composing and Producing MusicReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the role of samples in modern music production
- Produce a musical composition using samples
- Remix a composition
Using Software in the ArtsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Select software for use in the arts
- Use software to modify media
- Review own work
Using a Film or Digital CameraReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand contextual perspectives and approaches to photography
- Understand the characteristics of camera systems and photographic equipment
- Control a camera for specified outcomes
- Employ photographic practice
Using a Film or Digital CameraReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the contexts and approaches to photography
- Use the characteristics of camera systems
- Control a camera
- Employ photographic practice
Using the Internet as a MusicianReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know how the internet is a useful medium for musicians
- Use the internet for research
- Find music on the internet
- Know about media file formats
- Know about promoting music on the internet
Video ProductionReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out pre-production for a proposed video product
- Contribute in a technical capacity to the creation of a video product
- Carry out post-production for a video product
- Review own video production work.
Video PublishingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the various encoding techniques, resolutions and codecs for high quality video
- Encode video for various online social media platforms
- Upload encoded video
WoodworkReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use a variety of hand tools
- Maintain tools
- Know about materials used in woodwork
- Mark out joints and assemblies
- Understand Health and Safety procedures
Woodworking SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the Health and Safety factors relating to the work environment
- Use hand tools
- Use electrical hand tools
- Use fixings
Working in the Performing ArtsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know what skills and training are required for jobs in performing arts
- Know what opportunities there are for progression in performing arts
- Know own skills and qualities relevant to performing arts
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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
Assessor
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.
- Age and Distress Costumes
- Assist with dressing stunt doubles
- Clean costumes used in a production
- Contribute to the Design Process and Acquire Resources for Hair, Wigs, Make-Up and Prosthetics Work
- Design community arts projects for specific groups and individuals
- Document and record craftwork and working practice
- Hire and return costumes
- Identify and resource your continuing professional development
Where this can lead
Associate Video Producer
Your journey starts here, but where it goes is really up to you. We're committed to providing the opportunities and support for you to build a fantastic career in video content. If you bring the passion and the drive, we'll help you unlock your full potential.
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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 AIM Awards Level 2 Diploma in Skills for the Creative Industries
175 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by AIM Qualifications.
- Appreciating the Styles and History of Music
- Approaches to Craft – Function and Object
- Approaches to Design – Making Ceramics
- Approaches to Design – Research
- Art & Design: Explore Mixed Media
- Art History in Practice
and 169 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.
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.