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AIM Qualifications · RQF Level 2

AIM Qualifications Level 2 Certificate in Skills for the Creative Industries - Screen and Media Production

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

  • LevelRQF Level 2
  • Total credits18
  • Guided learning120 hours
  • Units in this qualification9

Awarded by AIM Qualifications · on the Ofqual register

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What you’ll learn

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.

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
Media Content Design and Production Personal Project ManagementReal unit · AIM Qualifications
It teaches you to plan design project work with clear goals and timelines. You'll translate project ideas into detailed design concepts and final products, demonstrating creative and technical skills.

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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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.

Drawing and Digital Art SkillsMedia Content Design and Production Personal Project ManagementPhotography - Using a Camera and AccessoriesPitching a Media Product Idea to an AudiencePrinciples of Animation for a Media ProductionResearch for Creative Media ProductionSound for VideoVideo Production

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.

Meet all twelve tutors

Where this connects

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.

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.

See the whole journey →
Opens the roleAssociate Video ProducerOne of the jobs this qualification is a route intoSee the role →Opens the roleJunior Video Content SpecialistOne of the jobs this qualification is a route intoSee the role →Opens the roleJunior Video Content AssistantOne of the jobs this qualification is a route intoSee the role →Opens the roleVideo Production ManagerOne of the jobs this qualification is a route intoSee the role →Opens the roleSenior Head of Video ContentOne of the jobs this qualification is a route intoSee the role →Future FluencyAll ten future skillsSee how every unit is contextualised by the tenExplore →

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.

Carry out and present research for film or television productionsResearch Information Required for Work in the Creative Industries

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.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Drawing and Digital Art SkillsLevel 2

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Which job do you mean?
Associate Video ProducerJunior Video Content SpecialistJunior Video Content AssistantVideo Production ManagerSenior Head of Video Content
How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.
Your PlanIllustration

Built for AIM Qualifications Level 2 Certificate in Skills for the Creative Industries - Screen and Media Production

9 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by AIM Qualifications.

  1. Drawing and Digital Art Skills
  2. Media Content Design and Production Personal Project Management
  3. Photography - Using a Camera and Accessories
  4. Pitching a Media Product Idea to an Audience
  5. Principles of Animation for a Media Production
  6. Research for Creative Media Production

and 3 more in the full unit list below.

These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

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, free

No 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.