Open College Network West Midlands Level 2 Extended Award in Work Preparation for the Creative Industries (QCF)

What you'll be able to do

• Use acting skills in practical activities.
• Develop a character for an acting role.
• Use acting skills in a performance.
• Demonstrate a positive approach through participation in practical activities.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the development of advertising practice.
• Know how advertisements are constructed.
• Generate ideas for advertisements.
• Reflect on own advertisements produced.
• Use Health and Safety procedures for self and general public.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand different methods of applying for a job.
• Prepare a job application.

What you'll be able to do

• Source research material appropriate to the needs of an art project.
• Plan work for an art project.
• Record ideas for art project development.
• Develop and complete an art project.
• Review own work.
• Work safely on an art project.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand health and safety rules relating to backstage theatre skills.
• Work safely backstage.
• Carry out pre-show checks.
• Communicate during the running of a performance.
• Know about backstage tasks.
• Use technical skills backstage.
• Review own backstage skills and performance.

What you'll be able to do

• Know a variety of balloon shapes and sizes.
• Create balloon shapes using the twisting method.
• Create air filled balloon design table decorations.
• Create a stand up display balloon character.
• Create a wall display using foil balloons.

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.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how people in the workplace depend on one another.
• Understand how an individual’s behaviour affects other people at work.
• Demonstrate positive behaviours that promote effective working with others.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the properties of clay.
• Know clay forming techniques.
• Plan to make a clay item.
• Use clay forming techniques.
• Use ceramic decorative techniques.
• Know the changes that occur during ceramic making, drying and firing processes.
• Follow health and safety procedures for working with clay.
• Review own work.

What you'll be able to do

• Use colour related terminology and concepts.
• Know the elements of the colour spectrum.
• Know how colour is used in different contexts.
• Know the significance of psychological associations related to colour.
• Know the spatial impact of colour.

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.

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.

What you'll be able to do

• Know what Health and Safety procedures are required for costume for performance.
• Understand how costume is used in performance.
• Communicate in order to acquire costumes according to a brief.
• Assemble costume according to budget, time and resources.
• Review own work with costume.

What you'll be able to do

• Source research material appropriate to the needs of a craft design project.
• Plan work for a craft design project.
• Record ideas for craft design project development.
• Develop and complete a craft design project.
• Review own work.
• Work safely on a craft design project.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the design characteristics of different styles or movements relevant to a craft.
• Understand the design characteristics of given objects.
• Understand terminology relevant to design practice and history.
• Know key influences on the design of objects.
• Reflect on design style.
• Reflect on design style.

What you'll be able to do

• Carry out creative craft activities safely.
• Record development of ideas for creative craft activity.
• Plan for creative craft activity.
• Use materials and equipment for creative craft activity.
• Use techniques for creative craft activity.
• Review own work.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand litreary styles and genres.
• Understand how to record and use personal experience or anecdotes as a basis for creative writing.
• Understand the importance of choosing a particular reading audience.
• Draft a piece of creative writing.
• Reflect on own work.

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.

What you'll be able to do

• Safely use equipment used in DJing performance.
• Safely set up a DJ rig.
• Set up turntables.
• Sound check equipment.
• Create a set.
• Review own DJing performance.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the purpose and format of meetings.
• Prepare for meetings.
• Contribute to a meeting.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the products and processes used to create interactive media products.
• Use interactive media products and processes to capture and manipulate images.

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.

What you'll be able to do

• Identify suitable job opportunities.
• Investigate job vacancies.

What you'll be able to do

• Prepare for face painting.
• Talk to a child when face painting.
• Apply face painting techniques.

What you'll be able to do

• Research for a film or video project.
• Undertake a film project.
• Reflect on own film produced.
• Understand relevant Health and Safety issues and procedures.

What you'll be able to do

• Make informed decisions when constructing garments.
• Estimate cost of garment to be constructed.
• Produce samples of construction techniques for chosen design.
• Take body measurements and adjust pattern to fit.
• Plan and cut pattern pieces from fabric correctly.
• Construct a well-finished garment.
• Review own work.

What you'll be able to do

• Produce decorative seams.
• Produce different types of buttonhole.
• Provide a variety of pleats.
• Use bias or binding.
• Organise samples.
• Produce a fabric swatch reference book.
• Understand health and safety requirements in the work place.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the role and application of graphic design.
• Know the tools and equipment used in graphic design projects.
• Research ideas for graphic design.
• Plan and prepare for a graphic design project.
• Use graphic design tools, equipment and techniques.
• Review own graphic design work.

What you'll be able to do

• Communicate with an audience.
• Take direction.
• Use teamwork in moving a performance project forward.
• Understand how to structure performance work to meet the needs of an audience.
• Use scripting conventions.

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.

What you'll be able to do

• Obtain, insert and combine information for images.
• Use imaging software tools to create, manipulate and edit images.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand different ways of learning.
• Set realistic learning targets.
• Review own performance in meeting learning targets.

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.
• Review own group devised performance piece.

What you'll be able to do

• Demonstrate readiness for an interview.
• Respond to questions in an interview.
• Review own performance in an interview.

What you'll be able to do

• Identify self-employment opportunities
• Produce a simple business plan
• Understand the legal and practical aspects of being self employed

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.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the differences between a leaflet and a poster.
• Understand information required to create a leaflet and a poster.
• Understand effective presentation of information in a leaflet and a poster.
• Select a leaflet or poster design for own use.
• Understand skills and resources needed for production of leaflets and posters.
• Understand how to distribute leaflets and posters within own community.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the use of proportion when life drawing.
• Use proportion when drawing from a life model.
• Recognise characteristics of line and tone.
• Understand the importance of keeping a personal sketchbook.
• Use different media when drawing from life.
• Follow guidelines for life drawing.
• Review own work.

What you'll be able to do

• Warm up and cool down.
• Participate in trust building exercises.
• Create movement phrases.
• Combine movement phrases.
• Dance with a partner or small group.

What you'll be able to do

• Manipulate media and materials.
• Collate and document research in materials for craft.
• Experiment with techniques and materials to develop craft ideas.
• Understand current trends in use of materials for craft.
• Understand Health and Safety procedures and safe workroom practice.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the history of music journalism.
• Use language in relation to music journalism.
• Review a music album.
• Structure a music article.
• Cut and paste articles on music.
• Research a music news story.
• Write a music news story.
• Understand copyright and libel law.

What you'll be able to do

• Know the part music can play in creating mood and atmosphere.
• Demonstrate music making skills.
• Use rhythm and tempo.
• Select music for use in performance.

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.

What you'll be able to do

• Plan a presentation.
• Deliver a structured presentation to an audience.
• Review the presentation.

What you'll be able to do

• Research and select stories for oral storytelling.
• Use techniques for memorising stories for oral storytelling.
• Develop a style of storytelling through rehearsal and reflection.
• Perform oral storytelling for an audience.
• Review own storytelling performance.

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.

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.

What you'll be able to do

• Model garment parts.
• Understand standard figure sizes.
• Fit and shape a garment for the front and back of the body.

What you'll be able to do

• Know about pattern piece markings.
• Understand the importance of comparative lay plans.
• Understand fabric characteristics relevant to lay planning.
• Complete a lay plan for maximum fabric utilisation.

What you'll be able to do

• Create fashion blocks.
• Adapt a fashion block to produce a dress block.

What you'll be able to do

• Create dress patterns.
• Adapt patterns.
• Create a pattern and toile for a dress.
• Produce a lay plan.

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.

What you'll be able to do

• Know conventions for personal presentation in the workplace.
• Demonstrate appropriate personal presentation for the workplace.

What you'll be able to do

• Prepare and use a tripod with a camera.
• Understand relevant Health and Safety issues and procedures.

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.

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.

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.

What you'll be able to do

• Plan the production of craft work.
• Produce craft work.
• Evaluate the creative and craft making processes.

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.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the characteristics of effective leadership.
• Understand the skills required for effective leadership.

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.

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.

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.

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.

What you'll be able to do

• Know physical properties and characteristics of sculptural materials.
• Plan a sculpture.
• Know tools and techniques for sculpture.
• Use tools and techniques for sculpture.
• Work safely in sculpture.
• Review own work.

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.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the types of problems that may occur in the workplace.
• Understand how problems can be solved.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand health and safety measures relating to sound and audio production.
• Work safely when using sound and audio equipment.
• Know equipment used for sound and audio production.
• Use methods and equipment to store, record and manipulate sound.
• Use technical skills to develop ideas for production.
• Review own use of sound and audio production equipment to develop ideas.

What you'll be able to do

• Develop creative ideas for a stained glass panel.
• Design a stained glass panel.
• Translate a design into a stained glass panel.
• Know tools and equipment for stained glass making.
• Follow health and safety procedures for stained glass making.
• Select materials for stained glass production.
• Use techniques in assembling stained glass panels.
• Review own work.

What you'll be able to do

• Prepare for tailored garment construction.
• Prepare pattern for cutting.
• Prepare and cut fabric.
• Produce tailored trousers.
• Apply finishing techniques.
• Review own work.
• Know about health and safety in garment construction.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how roles and responsibilities can be allocated within a team.
• Understand how to contribute to a team discussion.
• Understand how to participate in a team activity.
• Review own contribution to the team.

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

What you'll be able to do

• Understand health and safety regulations relevant to technical support in the performing arts.
• Understand the technical requirements of a production.
• Use technical skills safely, in a performing arts context.
• Know how technical skills can be used to enhance the creativity of a performance.
• Use technical skills to support and enhance performance.
• Review own technical skills for performance.

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.

What you'll be able to do

• Know materials and equipment used for textile production.
• Design textile items.
• Plan how to produce textile items.
• Use materials and equipment for textile production.
• Use textile techniques.
• Use textile techniques to produce articles.
• Review own work.
• Follow health and safety guidelines when producing textile items.

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.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of good time management.
• Know ways to promote good time management.
• Plan own use of time.
• Improve own time management.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

What you'll be able to do

• Know about video hardware and software.
• Plan for a video shoot.
• Use video hardware and software to capture information.
• Store and retrieve information captured on video.
• Use video software tools to edit video sequences.
• Play video sequences.
• Review own video work.

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.

What you'll be able to do

• Plan their work experience.
• Work effectively in their role.
• Review their work experience placement.

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.

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.