How you’d get this certificate
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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Open College Network Northern Ireland has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Open College Network Northern Ireland awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Open College Network Northern Ireland.
The OCN NI Level 3 Certificate explores creative arts and digital technologies. It includes units on presentation skills, composition, audio editing, and digital fabrication. This qualification is suitable for those interested in developing skills in the performing arts and related digital fields.
These are the units Open College Network Northern Ireland 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Open College Network Northern Ireland. It does the teaching and the mapping. Open College Network Northern Ireland sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Capturing and Editing Audio Sequences Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Use audio hardware and software to capture audio sequences effectively, ensuring good sound quality.
- Use audio software tools to edit, enhance, and manipulate audio sequences, achieving desired effects.
- Play and present audio sequences in a suitable format, considering the intended audience and purpose.
Capturing, Editing and Presenting Video Sequences Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Use video hardware and software to capture video sequences effectively.
- Use video software tools and techniques to combine video sequences.
- Use video software tools and techniques to edit video sequences.
- Play video sequences to a specified audience.
- Present video sequences to a specified audience.
Composition Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Identify a suitable starting point for an original musical composition
- Evaluate the suitability of different instruments for a musical composition
- Use hook, melody and rhythm effectively in music composition
- Implement arrangement techniques in a musical composition
- Implement structuring techniques in a musical composition
Developing Websites Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Create website structures and styles using appropriate coding languages and design principles to ensure usability and visual appeal.
- Use software tools to prepare and optimise content, including text, images, and multimedia, for effective website integration.
- Publish websites to a web server, ensuring accessibility and functionality across different devices and browsers.
Digital Fabrication Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the health and safety issues associated with digital fabrication equipment and processes
- Use appropriate software to create designs for digital fabrication
- Fabricate a design using digital fabrication equipment, following safety guidelines and best practices
Event Organisation within the Fine Arts or Performing Arts Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Plan an event within the fine arts or performing arts sectors, considering all logistical and creative aspects
- Understand the role of the event manager and the responsibilities of others involved in event organisation within the fine arts or performing arts sectors
- Publicise and run an event within the fine arts or performing arts sectors, ensuring effective promotion and smooth execution
Film and Video Production Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the film and video production process, including pre-production, production, and post-production stages, and the roles and responsibilities of different crew members.
- Produce pre-production materials, such as scripts, storyboards, shot lists, and location scouting reports, to plan and prepare for filming.
- Produce production materials, including capturing video and audio footage, managing lighting and sound, and directing actors or performers.
- Develop a final version of a short film or sequence of a film, including editing footage, adding sound effects and music, and creating titles and credits.
- Understand the certification process for films and videos, including legal and ethical considerations, copyright issues, and distribution channels.
Health and Safety in the Workplace Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the organisation's health and safety procedures and policy at work
- Maintain a safe working environment in own workplace, adhering to relevant health and safety guidelines
- Understand own responsibility for health and safety in own workplace, including reporting hazards and following safe working practices
Live Sound Engineering Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Set optimal signal-to-noise ratio levels for live sound engineering equipment
- Maintain a balanced and clear audio mix throughout a live performance
- Maintain effective communication with performers and stage crew during a live event
- Perform necessary post-performance activities, including equipment shutdown and audio recording management
Multi-track Recording Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Plan a multi-track recording session, considering factors such as microphone placement, signal flow, and session workflow.
- Understand and apply health and safety procedures relevant to recording environments, including noise levels and equipment handling.
- Understand the different types of microphones and their appropriate applications in the recording process.
- Understand the stages involved in the recording process, from initial setup to final mixdown.
- Record an ensemble performance, capturing individual instruments and vocals, and critically review the recording for technical and artistic merit.
Musical Ensemble Skills Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Develop ensemble skills on an instrument, focusing on aspects such as intonation, timing, and blend.
- Rehearse ensemble performances, working collaboratively with other musicians to refine the musical interpretation and execution.
- Give a performance of musical ensemble skills to an audience, demonstrating proficiency and musicality.
- Review the performance, evaluating individual and ensemble contributions, and identifying areas for future improvement.
Performance Realisation Skills Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Use a range of techniques to effectively realise productions, considering aspects such as stagecraft, lighting, and sound.
- Review own performance, identifying strengths, weaknesses, and areas for development.
- Review the overall realisation of a production, evaluating its effectiveness in conveying the intended message and engaging the audience.
Preparing for a Career or Further Study in the Creative Industries Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Identify a range of employment and education opportunities available within the creative industries sector
- Match personal qualities, skills, and interests to specific opportunities within the creative industries sector
- Plan a career path or further study options within the creative industries sector, setting realistic goals and timelines
Presentation Skills in Practice Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Source relevant information for a presentation
- Plan the structure and content of a presentation
- Deliver a structured presentation to an audience, using appropriate techniques
- Evaluate the effectiveness of a presentation, identifying areas for improvement
Problem Solving Skills Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Select a problem-solving methodology appropriate to the task, considering factors such as the nature of the problem, available resources, and time constraints.
- Develop an action plan to address a problem, including identifying specific steps, assigning responsibilities, setting timelines, and allocating resources.
- Review the effectiveness of an action plan, evaluating progress against objectives, identifying areas for improvement, and making necessary adjustments to the plan.
Song Writing Skills Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the characteristics of popular music genres and their historical context
- Understand how subject matter is explored and presented in popular music
- Understand the use of lyrical devices, such as metaphor, simile, and rhyme, in songwriting
- Understand the use of compositional devices, such as melody, harmony, and rhythm, in songwriting
Sound Checking an Ensemble Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the process of performing a sound check for an ensemble
- Prepare a PA system for a sound check, ensuring all equipment is functioning correctly
- Sound check individual instruments within an ensemble, adjusting levels and EQ as necessary
- Work effectively with performers during a sound check, addressing their needs and concerns
- Create a balanced mix for an ensemble, ensuring all instruments are audible and well-defined
Sound for Moving Image Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relationship between sound and picture in film, including the use of sound effects, music, and dialogue
- Develop a plan for sound in a short film production, considering the narrative and visual elements
- Record sound for a short film production, using appropriate equipment and techniques
Studio Mixing Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of audio mixing and its purpose in music production.
- Demonstrate practical mixing techniques, including EQ, compression, and panning, to achieve a balanced and polished sound.
- Evaluate the characteristics of a well-executed mix, identifying strengths and areas for improvement.
Teamwork Skills in Practice within the Creative Arts and Digital Technology Sectors Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different roles and responsibilities of individuals within a team environment
- Contribute to the setting of team goals and individual objectives, aligning with overall project aims
- Communicate effectively with team members, using appropriate methods to convey information and ideas
- Develop a plan to improve co-operation and collaboration within a team, addressing potential challenges
- Review team performance against agreed goals and objectives, identifying areas for improvement
Technical Sound and Audio Production Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand health and safety issues relating to sound and audio production, including safe handling of equipment, noise levels, and electrical safety.
- Use sound and audio production equipment, including microphones, mixing consoles, recording devices, and editing software, to capture and manipulate audio signals.
- Develop ideas for sound and audio production, including brainstorming, storyboarding, and creating soundscapes to enhance visual media or stand-alone audio projects.
- Understand professional working methods in sound and audio production, including communication protocols, time management, and adherence to industry standards.
- Work effectively within a group situation, contributing ideas, sharing responsibilities, and resolving conflicts to achieve common production goals.
- Reflect on own work in sound and audio production, identifying strengths and weaknesses, and developing strategies for improvement.
Undertaking a Solo Performance Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate technical skills on an instrument to a proficient level
- Develop effective and consistent practice routines to enhance performance
- Develop an appreciation of music from different historical periods and diverse styles
- Understand the elements of musical competence and the requirements of effective performance
Using Cameras and Accessories for Film and Video Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand safe photographic and video making practice, including risk assessments and adherence to health and safety regulations.
- Use the features of a camera, including settings for aperture, shutter speed, ISO, and white balance, and understand the function of various camera accessories such as lenses, tripods, and filters.
- Use a camera and accessories to capture high-quality images and video footage, demonstrating effective composition, lighting, and sound recording techniques.
- Transfer images and video from a camera to a computer or other storage device, ensuring data integrity and appropriate file management.
Using Imaging Software Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Obtain, insert and combine information for images from a variety of sources, including digital cameras, scanners, and online databases, ensuring appropriate resolution and file formats.
- Use imaging software to create, manipulate and edit images, including adjusting colour balance, cropping, resizing, retouching, and adding special effects.
Using Multimedia Software Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Plan multimedia products, considering target audience and purpose.
- Obtain content for multimedia outcomes from appropriate sources.
- Input content into multimedia software.
- Combine content to build multimedia outcomes that meet specified requirements.
- Use multimedia software tools to edit multimedia content effectively.
- Use multimedia software tools to format multimedia content appropriately.
- Play multimedia outcomes to test functionality and appearance.
- Present multimedia outcomes to a specified audience.
Using Social Media to Market and Promote Events, Products and Services Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the opportunities presented by using social media for marketing and promotion, including increased reach and engagement.
- Understand the threats associated with using social media for marketing and promotion, including reputational damage and security risks.
- Understand the application of social media platforms and tools for marketing and promotion purposes.
- Use social media platforms effectively to market and promote events, products, and services.
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
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Manage the work of teams in the creative industries
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Monitor and use social media to promote venues and events
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Work effectively with colleagues, partners and suppliers in the creative industries
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Work on projects involving immersive technology
- Standard
Work on projects involving immersive technology
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Work on projects involving immersive technology
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 26 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.
Where this can lead
Event Production Director
This work can lead to a lead producer or technical director role, focused on solving complex production challenges, or to managing a team of producers as an event production manager.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Open College Network Northern Ireland rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Capturing and Editing Audio SequencesCapturing, Editing and Presenting Video SequencesCompositionDeveloping WebsitesDigital FabricationEvent Organisation within the Fine Arts or Performing ArtsFilm and Video ProductionHealth and Safety in the Workplace
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Coach · your practice partner Illustration - Pitch it Evaluate
“Using Social Media to Market and Promote Events, Products and Services” gets practised as a pitch. You make the case out loud, Zavmo asks the question the room would ask, and you make it again.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Multi-track Recording” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Problem Solving Skills” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
- Lead it Apply
“Teamwork Skills in Practice within the Creative Arts and Digital Technology Sectors” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Manage the work of teams in the creative industries
- Monitor and use social media to promote venues and events
- Work effectively with colleagues, partners and suppliers in the creative industries
- Work on projects involving immersive technology
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Capturing and Editing Audio Sequences, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit develops learners' ability to capture audio sequences using hardware and software, ensuring sound quality. Learners will also use audio software tools to edit, enhance, and manipulate audio before presenting the final sequences.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for OCN NI Level 3 Certificate in Creative Arts and Digital Technologies
26 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Open College Network Northern Ireland.
- Capturing and Editing Audio Sequences
- Capturing, Editing and Presenting Video Sequences
- Composition
- Developing Websites
- Digital Fabrication
- Event Organisation within the Fine Arts or Performing Arts
and 20 more in the full unit list below.
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