How you’d get it

How you’d get this certificate

  1. Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer RSL Awards Ltd has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and RSL Awards Ltd awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from RSL Awards Ltd.

More on studying for a qualification

01What it is

RSL Awards have a complete portfolio of Vocational Qualifications, covering Music, Performing Arts and Creative Digital Media from Levels 1-5.

These are the units RSL Awards Ltd 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 RSL Awards Ltd. It does the teaching and the mapping. RSL Awards Ltd sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

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02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Audio Production Techniques Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
This unit covers the production of audio sequences tailored to specific media destinations. You'll develop skills in recording audio using appropriate equipment, editing and manipulating audio with software, and combining multiple tracks to create cohesive sequences.

What you'll be able to do

  • Produce an audio sequence
  • Ensure the audio sequence is suitable for a specific media destination
Games Production Techniques Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll create a variety of functional assets for digital games, including sprites, backgrounds, and sound effects. The unit covers asset creation, integration into game engines, and testing to ensure suitability for the identified audience.

What you'll be able to do

  • Create a range of functional assets for a digital game
  • Ensure the digital game is aimed at an identified audience
Interactive Digital Media Production Techniques Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll learn to create a basic interactive digital media product using appropriate software, incorporating various media elements and interactive features to fulfil a specific purpose for an identified audience.

What you'll be able to do

  • Create a basic interactive digital media product
  • Ensure the interactive digital media product fulfils a specific purpose
  • Tailor the interactive digital media product for an identified audience
Meeting a Digital Media Brief Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
This unit supports learners in planning and delivering a proposal for a digital media product or service in response to a brief, including analysing requirements, generating ideas, developing plans, and presenting proposals with visual aids.

What you'll be able to do

  • Plan a proposal for a digital media product or service idea in response to a brief
  • Deliver a proposal for a digital media product or service idea in response to a brief
03The standards

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.

  • Direct Asset Production for Games and Interactive Media Projects

    Standard
04The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 1 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by RSL Awards Ltd 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

Audio Production TechniquesGames Production TechniquesInteractive Digital Media Production TechniquesMeeting a Digital Media Brief

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 The Coach · your practice partner Illustration
The Coach Rather than work through “Audio Production Techniques” in the abstract, bring me the piece of it you are dealing with this week.
You I have got the write-up due Friday and I have not started it.
The Coach Then that is the lesson. Tell me what it has to say, and we will get the shape of it down before we worry about the words.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Bring the real thing Apply

    “Audio Production Techniques” is taught against the work in front of you rather than a worked example. You bring what you are doing this week and it becomes the practice.

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 Audio Production Techniques, one of this qualification's own units.

Audio Production Techniques Level 1

Applied to your own work

This unit covers the production of audio sequences tailored to specific media destinations. Learners will develop skills in recording audio using appropriate equipment, editing and manipulating audio with software, and combining multiple tracks to create cohesive sequences.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 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.

It is £70 a month, billed monthly. Your free first module is Future Fluency, and you can cancel any time. Teaching towards this qualification begins when you subscribe.

Your Plan Illustration

Built for RSL Level 1 Extended Certificate in Creative Digital Media

4 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by RSL Awards Ltd.

  1. Audio Production Techniques
  2. Games Production Techniques
  3. Interactive Digital Media Production Techniques
  4. Meeting a Digital Media Brief
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.

Learned on your own work, taught one-to-one.

Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your free first module is Future Fluency, so you can see how the teaching works before you pay for anything.

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The title, level, credits, guided learning hours and unit learning outcomes on this page are taken from the Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Where this data comes from.