Cambridge OCR · RQF Level 3
Cambridge OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Foundation Diploma in Digital Media
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Guided learning540 hours
- Units in this qualification26
Awarded by Cambridge OCR · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
The Cambridge OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Foundation Diploma in Digital Media is for learners interested in the media and communication sector. Studies encompass media products, pre-production, and interactive media. Learners will develop skills in media production and audience analysis.
These are the units Cambridge OCR 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.
3D digital modellingReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of 3D digital modelling
- Plan and design a 3D digital model
- Create a 3D digital model using appropriate software and techniques
- Apply textures, lighting, and rendering techniques to a 3D model
- Evaluate and refine a 3D digital model based on feedback
Advertising mediaReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different types of advertising media available
- Analyse the target audience for different advertising campaigns
- Evaluate the effectiveness of different advertising strategies
- Understand the legal and ethical considerations in advertising
- Plan and develop an advertising campaign for a specific product or service
Application of converging technologies within a digital design proposalReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Research the development of digital media technologies to support the planning of a new product, identifying relevant trends and innovations.
- Correlate the evolution of new media organisational cultures and roles which have impacted on the product proposal, demonstrating an understanding of industry dynamics.
- Illustrate how the legal, ethical, social and moral issues are considered within the product proposal, ensuring responsible and compliant practices.
- Create a proposal using converging technologies to exploit the identified new markets, demonstrating innovative and strategic thinking.
- Present a planned proposal that will widen audience reach through the use of converging technologies, effectively communicating the value proposition.
CinematographyReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of cinematography
- Identify different camera techniques and their effects
- Plan camera shots and movements to achieve specific visual outcomes
- Use appropriate camera equipment and settings to capture desired footage
- Apply lighting techniques to enhance the visual quality of a scene
- Evaluate the effectiveness of cinematography in conveying a story or message
Comics and graphic novel storytellingReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the history and evolution of comics and graphic novels
- Understand the conventions of comics and graphic novel storytelling
- Develop a concept for a comic or graphic novel
- Create character designs for a comic or graphic novel
- Produce sequential artwork for a comic or graphic novel
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the storytelling in a comic or graphic novel
Create a digital animationReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of digital animation
- Plan the creation of a digital animation project
- Create a digital animation using appropriate software and techniques
- Review and refine a digital animation based on feedback
- Understand the legal and ethical considerations related to digital animation
Create a media productReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Apply production techniques to create a media product
- Use appropriate equipment and software to create a media product
- Manage the production process effectively
- Review and refine the media product based on feedback
Create a personal media profileReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key elements of a personal media profile
- Identify target audiences for a personal media profile
- Plan the content and structure of a personal media profile
- Create a personal media profile using appropriate tools and techniques
- Review and evaluate the effectiveness of a personal media profile
Create audio-visual promosReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of creating audio-visual promotional materials
- Plan the creation of an audio-visual promo, considering target audience and purpose
- Develop storyboards and scripts for audio-visual promos
- Use appropriate equipment and software to record and edit audio-visual content
- Apply visual and audio techniques to enhance the impact of audio-visual promos
- Evaluate the effectiveness of created audio-visual promos against set objectives
Cross media industry awarenessReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the structure and organisation of the cross media industry
- Identify key roles and responsibilities within the cross media industry
- Analyse current trends and developments in the cross media industry
- Evaluate the impact of technology on the cross media industry
- Understand the ethical and legal considerations within the cross media industry
Game developmentReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of game development
- Plan and design a game concept
- Develop game mechanics and logic using appropriate tools and programming languages
- Create game assets, including characters, environments, and user interfaces
- Test and debug a game to ensure functionality and user experience
Graphic design for digital media productsReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of graphic design for digital media
- Plan and design graphic elements for digital media products
- Create graphic designs using appropriate software and techniques
- Optimise graphic designs for different digital media platforms
- Evaluate and refine graphic designs based on feedback and user requirements
Interactive media productReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and function of interactive media products
- Plan the development of an interactive media product
- Design the user interface for an interactive media product
- Develop an interactive media product using appropriate software and tools
- Test and evaluate an interactive media product
- Review and refine an interactive media product based on feedback
Journalism and the news industryReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the structure and organisation of the journalism and news industry
- Analyse the different roles and responsibilities within the journalism and news industry
- Evaluate the impact of technology on the journalism and news industry
- Understand the ethical and legal considerations for journalists
- Analyse current trends and challenges facing the journalism and news industry
Media products and audiencesReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse different types of media products
- Evaluate the characteristics of target audiences
- Assess the relationship between media products and their audiences
- Understand the impact of media products on society
Photography for digital media productsReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of photography for digital media products
- Plan photographic shoots for digital media products
- Apply photographic techniques for digital media products
- Use appropriate equipment for photography in digital media products
- Edit and manipulate photographs for digital media products
- Evaluate the effectiveness of photographs in digital media products
Plan and deliver a pitch for a media productReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the content and structure of a pitch for a media product
- Develop effective communication skills for delivering a pitch
- Prepare visual aids and supporting materials for a pitch
- Deliver a pitch for a media product to a target audience
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the pitch and identify areas for improvement
Pre-production and planningReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand pre-production processes in media
- Plan media production activities
- Develop pre-production documentation
- Evaluate pre-production planning
Radio productionReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of radio production
- Plan and prepare for a radio production
- Record and edit audio content for radio broadcast
- Produce a radio programme using appropriate software and techniques
- Evaluate and refine a radio production based on audience feedback and industry standards
Research for product developmentReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Conduct research for a digital media production, identifying appropriate methodologies and sources.
- Use research findings to inform pre-production and planning processes, ensuring alignment with project goals.
- Apply research findings to the proposed production processes, optimising workflows and resource allocation.
- Use research findings to promote the digital media product, targeting specific audiences and platforms.
- Explain how feedback is used within research techniques to refine and improve the production process.
Scripting for media productsReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of effective scriptwriting for media products
- Develop scripts for different types of media products, such as film, television, and radio
- Apply different scripting techniques, such as dialogue, character development, and plot structure
- Evaluate the effectiveness of a script in achieving its intended purpose
- Understand the legal and ethical considerations related to scriptwriting
Social media and globalisationReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact of social media on globalisation
- Analyse the role of social media in communication
- Evaluate the ethical considerations of social media use
- Assess the impact of globalisation on social media trends
TV and short film productionReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different roles and responsibilities within TV and short film production
- Plan a TV or short film production
- Apply pre-production techniques for TV and short film production
- Apply production techniques for TV and short film production
- Apply post-production techniques for TV and short film production
- Evaluate the final TV or short film product
The creation and use of sound in mediaReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of sound and acoustics
- Demonstrate techniques for capturing and recording sound effectively
- Apply sound editing and mixing techniques to media productions
- Evaluate the use of sound to enhance the impact of media products
- Understand the legal and ethical considerations related to sound recording and use
UK broadcastingReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the structure and organisation of the UK broadcasting industry
- Identify the roles and responsibilities of different broadcasting organisations
- Understand the regulatory framework governing UK broadcasting
- Analyse the impact of technology on UK broadcasting
- Evaluate the challenges and opportunities facing the UK broadcasting industry
Visual and special effectsReal unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of visual and special effects in media production
- Identify different types of visual and special effects techniques
- Plan the integration of visual and special effects into a media project
- Use appropriate software and equipment to create visual and special effects
- Apply visual and special effects techniques to enhance a media production
- Evaluate the effectiveness of visual and special effects in achieving desired outcomes
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
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Who’d teach you this
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Where these credits take you
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- Comply with broadcast regulation on privacy
- Comply with broadcast regulation to protect the under-eighteens
- Control the overall planning of productions
- Create effects
- Create visual content for use in radio and audio productions
- Incorporate interactive media in products
- Incorporate visual effects and graphics in live footage
- Input into Pre-Production Planning
Where this can lead
Associate Media Planner
Your journey starts here, but where it goes is really up to you. With dedication, a thirst for learning, and a keen eye for detail, the world of media planning offers a truly exciting and rewarding career path.
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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
This unit covers 3D digital modelling principles, including planning, creation, texturing, lighting, and rendering. Learners will use appropriate software to develop models and refine their work based on feedback to meet project specifications.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Cambridge OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Foundation Diploma in Digital Media
26 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Cambridge OCR.
- 3D digital modelling
- Advertising media
- Application of converging technologies within a digital design proposal
- Cinematography
- Comics and graphic novel storytelling
- Create a digital animation
and 20 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.
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Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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