Ascentis · RQF Level 2
Ascentis Level 2 Certificate In Work Preparation 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 credits15
- Guided learning79 hours
- Units in this qualification63
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Ascentis 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.
Applying for a JobReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different methods of applying for a job.
- Prepare a job application.
Art and Design: Colour Theory and DesignReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the terminology employed within colour theory.
- Understand the colour spectrum.
- Understand the features and application of monochromatic colour.
- Understand the features and application of harmonious colour.
- Understand the features and application of complementary colour.
- Understand the influence and significance of historical colour.
- Know about the psychological associations linked to colour.
Building Working Relationships With ColleaguesReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how people in the workplace depend upon one another.
- Understand how an individual’s behaviour affects other people at work.
- Demonstrate positive behaviours that promote effective working with others.
Building a Personal Career PortfolioReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise own skills, abilities, experience, knowledge and personal qualities.
- Assess the potential of own skills, abilities, experience, knowledge and personal qualities for contributing towards the achievement of personal goals.
- Build a portfolio of information to evidence achievements and qualities.
- Produce a curriculum vitae (CV).
- Identify personal goals and the actions required to achieve these.
- Understand the value of a portfolio in personal, educational and career development.
Combined Arts and CollaborationReal unit · Ascentis
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/ between art disciplines.
- Know about the value/purpose of combined arts and collabouration.
Communication in the workplaceReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know about ways of communicating.
- Know the methods used to communicate different types of information in the workplace.
- Use communication skills.
Creative Craft SkillsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the health and safety requirements when undertaking creative activity.
- Research and develop ideas for creative activity.
- Experiment with media using a sketchbook and/or journal.
- Use a range of materials and equipment.
- Understand techniques to undertake activity.
Customer CareReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of good customer care.
- Provide good customer care.
- Communicate positively with customers.
- Understand the importance of keeping to organisational policies and practice.
Design ProjectReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Source research material appropriate to the needs of the project.
- Plan work to meet deadlines using time management skills.
- Translate project ideas into final product.
- Plan, develop and complete the design projects using appropriate materials and techniques.
- Understand the need to reflect on own design work.
- Understand Health and Safety issues.
Design StyleReal unit · Ascentis
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 their critical awareness and design vocabulary.
- Undertake research for design assignments.
Develop and Adapt Sculpture IdeasReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Develop sculpture ideas creatively
- Adapt sculpture ideas
- Know about safe working environments
Developing meeting skillsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and format of meetings.
- Prepare for meetings.
- Contribute to a meeting.
Digital Imaging and PrintingReal unit · Ascentis
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.
Discovering MusicReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know about classical music.
- Know about the main types of popular music.
- Know about the production of sound in musical instruments.
- Understand the basic principles of music theory and notation.
Drawing Application MethodsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Explore a variety of drawing techniques and media.
- Apply skills in specific contexts and for different purposes.
- Understand formal elements and surface qualities.
- Produce a personal response.
- Understand Health and Safety procedures and safe studio practice.
Enterprise skillsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs and how these are important in business situations.
- Understand own strengths as an enterprising person and ways to develop own enterprising characteristics.
Exploratory Drawing Methods - Using Textile Media and ApplicationsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Develop visual work through experimentation.
- Combine creative and technical skills in the production of visual work.
- Understand the importance, diversity and integration of drawing work within the specialism of textile design.
- Understand Health and Safety issues.
Explore interactive media products and processesReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the processes used to create interactive media products
Explore materials, tools and techniques to support craft ideasReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Explore different materials and tools for craft ideas
- Develop techniques for craft ideas
Exploring a Career in the Creative SectorReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise career opportunities in the creative sector.
- Identify future career aims or opportunities.
- Understand the value of CVs or portfolios for career development.
Exploring job opportunitiesReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Identify suitable job opportunities.
- Investigate job vacancies.
Garment Construction SkillsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the design features of the chosen garment.(HD1/L2.1)
- Make informed design decisions.(SLc/L2.3)(MSS1/L2.8)
- Construct or adapt a pattern to a specific design.(MSS2/L2.1)
- Plan and prepare for the construction process.(MSS1/L2.8)
- Develop skills in specific construction techniques.(SLlr/L2.2)
- Make the garment.(SLc/L2.4)
- Review their work.(SLlr/L2.3; SLlr/L2.4)
Graphic Design SkillsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Research information and ideas for graphic design work.
- Use materials, techniques and processes to develop ideas for graphic design.
- Produce and present graphic design in response to a task/theme or given brief.
- Review and reflect on design work.
Health and Safety in a Practical EnvironmentReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know the Health and Safety requirements, procedures and equipment relevant to their work environment.
- Recognise and manage risk in their work environment by following safe working practices.
Improvisation and Performance SkillsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of improvisation.
- Devise performance through the process of improvisation.
- Understand the functions of a given brief.
- Contribute to a group devised performance.
- Understand the value of evaluation.
Interview SkillsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate readiness for an interview.
- Respond to questions in an interview.
- Review own performance in an interview.
Introduction to the Creative IndustriesReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the Creative Industries.
- Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in the Creative Industries.
- Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in the Creative Industries.
Making DanceReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Create movement phrases.
- Warm up and cool down.
- Combine movement phrases.
- Dance with a partner or small group.
Materials ExplorationReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to manipulate a variety of media and materials.
- Understand the importance of developing an individual approach to the collection and recording of information.
- Experiment with ideas, techniques and materials.
- Understand the current market trends and preferences within design applications.
- Recognise conventions.
- Understand Health and Safety procedures and safe studio practice.
Music Improvisation and Performance SkillsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of improvisation.
- Devise performance through the process of improvisation.
- Understand the functions of a given brief.
- Contribute to a group devised performance.
- Understand the value of evaluation.
Music for PerformanceReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the part music can play in creating mood and atmosphere.
- Demonstrate music making skills.
- Understand the use of rhythm and tempo.
- Select music for use in performance.
News Media PracticeReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Generate ideas for news article.
- Carry out research necessary to produce a piece of journalistic writing.
- Understand why articles must be subject to editing.
- Know how images can be sourced or produced to enhance a publication’s design.
- Write and lay out an article that includes both text and an image, taking the readership’s needs into account.
- Use Health and Safety procedures for self and general public.
Painting Methods - Mixed MediaReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand mixed media methods.
- Understand how to use mixed-media materials, techniques and methods.
- Understand the value of supporting research and notation.
- Produce work, which shows choice of form and content.
- Understand Health and Safety procedures and safe studio practice.
Painting Methods - Pictorial LanguageReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand, in visual, pictorial and technical terms, approaches to pictorial language.
- Know the value of sketchbook methodology for selecting, collecting and using information.
- Produce work, which shows choice of form and content.
- Understand Health & Safety procedures and safe studio practice.
Performing Physical TheatreReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand health and safety measures relating to physical theatre.
- Engage safely in physical theatre.
- Demonstrate movements for physical theatre.
- Choreograph simple physical performance sequences.
- Receive, respond to and give feedback on performance.
- Reflect on own performance.
Personal presentation in the workplaceReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know conventions for personal presentation in the workplace.
- Demonstrate appropriate personal presentation for the workplace.
Photography - Using A TripodReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare and use a tripod with a camera.
- Understand relevant Health and Safety issues and procedures.
Photography - Using a Camera and AccessoriesReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Use a camera and relevant accessories to create images.
- Frame the image.
- Select and transfer images from camera for printing.
- Know about relevant Health and Safety issues and procedures.
Photography: A Creative Approach to Picture MakingReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and respond to a photographic assignment.
- Know the value of research for selecting, collecting and using information to influence picture making.
- Apply a negotiated approach to a picture making assignment.
- Put together images.
- Understand Health and Safety procedures and safe studio practice.
Planning and reviewing learningReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to meet targets.
- Follow a plan to meet targets and improve performance.
- Review own progress and achievements.
Produce Craft WorkReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the production of craft work
- Produce craft work
- Evaluate the creative and craft making processes
Promoting a Performing Arts EventReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand why a performing arts event needs promotion.
- Plan the promotion of a specific performance or event.
- Promote a specific performance or event.
- Review the promotion of a specific performance or event.
Recognising Leadership SkillsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key characteristics of effective leadership.
- Understand the skills involved in effective leadership.
Recognising Prejudice and DiscriminationReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how stereotyping people can lead to prejudice and discrimination.
- Understand the impact of discriminatory behaviour on individuals and the workplace.
Recognising and respecting diversity in the workplaceReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how recognising and respecting individual differences and diversity contributes to a positive environment in the workplace.
- Understand key responsibilities in relation to promoting equality in the workplace.
- Understand the importance of challenging discrimination at work.
Responsible Work PracticeReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the requirements of the workplace.
- Understand the importance of positive attitudes and behaviours at work.
- Understand the characteristics of effective work practice.
Rights and Responsibilities in the WorkplaceReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand why rights and responsibilities are important in the workplace.
- Understand how to access sources of support and guidance about rights and responsibilities in the workplace.
Set and Meet Goals in the Performing ArtsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to meet goals in the performing arts.
- Contribute to the setting of group and individual goals in the performing arts.
- Understand own and others’ responsibilities in achieving group goals in the performing arts.
- Plan group activities in the performing arts.
- Undertake group activities in the performing arts.
- Review own group’s performing arts activities.
Solving Problems in the WorkplaceReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the types of problems that may occur in the workplace.
- Understand how problems can be solved.
Teamwork and Communication Skills for Performing ArtsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Agree roles for individuals in a performing arts group.
- Understand how to communicate verbally when working with a performing arts group.
- Interact with group members during performing arts activities.
- Demonstrate listening and conversational skills for social interaction during performing arts activities.
- Accept the right of other people to communicate within a group situation during performance arts activities.
- Understand the importance of co-operation in group situations during performing arts activities.
- Accept and respond to prai
Technical Skills for PerformanceReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the technical requirements of a performance.
- Use technical skills in a performance arts context.
- Employ technical skills in order to enhance creative performance.
Textile Design Skills Development - Production RealisationReal unit · Ascentis
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 Techniques and ProcessesReal unit · Ascentis
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 Internet as a Tool for Music PromotionReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of the Internet as a means of distribution and promotion of music.
- Know the implications of copyright in relation to web design.
- Design a music related website.
Understanding Change in the WorkplaceReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand that organisations need to respond to change and new directions.
- Understand the impacts of change in the workplace.
Understanding Opportunities in Work Based Learning and ApprenticeshipsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of work based learning and apprenticeships.
- Understand how work based learning and apprenticeship opportunities can benefit own learning and development.
Understanding Structures in the WorkplaceReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of organisational objectives and values.
- Understand the need for effective communication routes within an organisation.
- Recognise the way in which decisions are made in relation to organisational structure.
Urban, Street or Graffiti Art PracticeReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact of urban, street or graffiti art practice on a community of interest or local community.
- Generate ideas for site-specific art works.
- Plan for and create site-specific art works.
- Understand issues for the community of interest or local community, in designing and placing site-specific art works.
- Reflect on own art work produced.
- Use Health and Safety procedures for self and general public.
Using Computers in the ArtsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Use computers and software and peripheral systems in the arts.
- Know about computer input and output devices, their characteristics and applications and their relationship to software performance.
- Understand the protocols of shared use of the computer and peripherals.
- Understand the characteristics of a range of software packages used in the arts.
- Follow Health and Safety procedures.
Using a Digital Audio WorkstationReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the difference between midi and audio tracks.
- Know the function of DAW components and tools.
- Know about available software and hardware for use with a DAW.
- Use relevant vocabulary in relation to DAWs.
- Operate a DAW.
- Back up audio material.
- Collabourate using a DAW.
Work ExperienceReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Plan their work experience.
- Work effectively in their role.
- Review their work experience placement.
Working in CraftReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know different types of organisations in the craft industry.
- Know job roles in the craft industry.
- Know the skills and training required for jobs in craft.
- Know about progression opportunities in the craft industry.
- Know own skills and qualities relevant to craft job roles.
- Prepare a C.V. for a specific job role in the craft industry.
Working in the Performing ArtsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know different types of organisations in the performing arts industry.
- Know job roles in the performing arts industry.
- Know the skills and training required for jobs in performing arts.
- Know progression opportunities in performing arts.
- Know own skills and qualities relevant to performing arts job roles.
- Prepare a C.V. for a specific job role in the performing arts industry.
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.
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- Contribute to creativity and innovation in journalism
- Coordinate Multi-Partner Projects and Live Events
- Create graphics for productions
- Engage with the news media
- Identify and cover events as a journalist
- Plan, set up and control the digital workflow
- Preparation of digital image work for a film or television production
Where this can lead
Graphic Designer
Your journey as a designer is what you make it. We're here to provide the opportunities and support for you to grow, whether that's becoming a creative leader, a deep specialist, or exploring new avenues within the broader creative industry. The most important thing is your passion for visual communication and your drive to keep learning.
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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 Ascentis Level 2 Certificate In Work Preparation for the Creative Industries
63 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Ascentis.
- Applying for a Job
- Art and Design: Colour Theory and Design
- Building Working Relationships With Colleagues
- Building a Personal Career Portfolio
- Combined Arts and Collaboration
- Communication in the workplace
and 57 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.