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  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.

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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.

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02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Animation Techniques for Film Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll produce animated visual sequences for film using appropriate techniques, tools, and conventions. The unit covers planning, asset preparation, animation creation, and application of principles such as timing, spacing, and movement.

What you'll be able to do

  • Use appropriate processes to produce an animated visual sequence for film.
  • Apply conventions of animation to produce an animated visual sequence for film.
  • Utilise appropriate tools to produce an animated visual sequence for film.
Creating 3D Digital Games Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
It teaches you to create 3D digital games by applying knowledge of game types, platforms, design principles, and technologies. You'll develop a game aligned with chosen types and platforms, incorporating appropriate design elements.

What you'll be able to do

  • Apply knowledge and understanding of 3D games types to create a 3D digital game
  • Apply knowledge and understanding of 3D games platforms to create a 3D digital game
  • Apply knowledge and understanding of 3D games design to create a 3D digital game
  • Apply knowledge and understanding of 3D games technologies to create a 3D digital game
  • Apply knowledge and understanding of 3D games audiences to create a 3D digital game
Creating Concept Art for Digital Media Applications Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll create concept art for digital media applications, understanding its role in production. The unit covers generating initial sketches, analysing visual styles, developing concept art to communicate style, and professional presentation.

What you'll be able to do

  • Apply knowledge and understanding of the production and presentation of concept art, and its uses across digital media products and destinations, to create concept art for a specified digital media product.
Creating and Publishing Digital Content Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll develop practical skills in creating and publishing digital content using various current tools. The unit covers generating text, image, and video content and applying appropriate publishing methods to fulfil specific purposes.

What you'll be able to do

  • Use a range of current content creation tools to create digital content
  • Use a range of current content creation tools to publish digital content
  • Create and publish digital content to fulfil a specific purpose
Development of Film Making Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll analyse the historical development of film making techniques and technologies within a defined timeframe. The unit covers key milestones, technological evolution, and the influence of social, cultural, and economic factors on film aesthetics and storytelling.

What you'll be able to do

  • Analyse the historical development of film making techniques and technologies.
  • Evaluate the impact of key individuals and organisations on the evolution of film making.
  • Assess the influence of social, cultural, and economic factors on film making trends within a defined timeframe.
Editing Sound for Film Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll gain knowledge of sound editing principles and techniques for film, including continuity, pacing, and emotional impact. The unit covers the roles of sound editors and the use of software to synchronise, edit, and mix dialogue, music, and effects into cohesive soundtracks.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles of sound editing for film
  • Identify the different types of sound used in film (dialogue, music, sound effects)
  • Use appropriate software and tools to edit sound for film
  • Synchronise sound with visuals accurately
  • Apply techniques to improve the clarity and quality of sound recordings
  • Mix and balance different sound elements to create a cohesive soundtrack
  • Apply industry-standard conventions for sound editing in film
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of the sound editing in enhancing the overall impact of the film
Film Editing Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
It teaches you to produce edited visual sequences using appropriate processes, tools, and film editing conventions. You'll apply techniques such as continuity and pacing to create coherent sequences in recognised formats and genres.

What you'll be able to do

  • Use appropriate processes to produce an edited visual sequence
  • Apply conventions of film editing to produce an edited visual sequence
  • Use appropriate tools to produce an edited visual sequence
  • Produce an edited visual sequence in a recognised format
  • Produce an edited visual sequence in a recognised genre
Film Studies Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll analyse key characteristics and historical context of a chosen film genre or style. The unit involves researching significant figures and films to critically evaluate their contributions and influence within the genre or style.

What you'll be able to do

  • Analyse the key characteristics of a chosen film genre or style.
  • Identify and research the work of significant figures associated with the selected film genre or style.
  • Evaluate the impact and influence of these key exponents on the development of the genre or style.
  • Present a critical analysis of the chosen film genre or style, supported by evidence from the work of key exponents.
Final Project Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
This unit requires learners to plan and execute a complete film production in response to a brief. You'll analyse project requirements, develop detailed production plans including timelines and budgets, identify risks, and implement contingency strategies to manage resources effectively.

What you'll be able to do

  • Plan for the full production of a film project in response to a brief.
  • Execute the full production of a film project in response to a brief.
Lighting Techniques for Cameras Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
This unit develops learners' skills in lighting single scenes for single or multi-camera shoots within recognised genres. You'll set up and adjust lighting equipment, apply lighting techniques to create mood and effects, and follow safe working practices.

What you'll be able to do

  • Use appropriate processes to light a single scene.
  • Use appropriate processes to light a single camera shoot in a recognised genre and format.
  • Use appropriate processes to light a multi camera shoot in a recognised genre and format.
  • Apply lighting conventions to a single scene.
  • Apply lighting conventions to a single camera shoot in a recognised genre and format.
  • Apply lighting conventions to a multi camera shoot in a recognised genre and format.
Making Narrative Imagery Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
It teaches you to produce narrative imagery by applying knowledge of production stages and presentation methods. You'll create visual narratives appropriate to defined digital media destinations, analysing narrative structure and its impact on storytelling.

What you'll be able to do

  • Apply knowledge and understanding of the production and presentation of narrative imagery.
  • Present a visual narrative appropriate to a defined digital media destination.
Multi Camera Techniques Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
This unit equips learners with the skills to manage multi-camera shoots within recognised genres and formats. You'll understand team roles, pre-production planning, risk management, and apply industry-standard camera techniques and conventions.

What you'll be able to do

  • Demonstrate understanding of the processes involved in overseeing a multi-camera shoot.
  • Apply relevant conventions and protocols for multi-camera production.
  • Utilise appropriate equipment and techniques for a multi-camera shoot.
  • Manage and coordinate a multi-camera shoot effectively within a recognised genre and format.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of the multi-camera shoot in achieving its intended purpose.
Pre-Production in Creative Digital Media Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll undertake pre-production activities for a digital media project, including conducting research, developing project proposals, creating storyboards or visualisations, and managing production schedules. This unit develops skills essential for effective project planning and resource management.

What you'll be able to do

  • Undertake effective pre-production activities on a digital media project.
Producing a Digital Media Product or Service Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll plan and produce digital media products or services in response to briefs. The unit covers analysing requirements, production planning, resource management, risk evaluation, and contingency planning to deliver final digital media outputs.

What you'll be able to do

  • Plan for the production of a digital media product or service in response to a brief.
  • Undertake the production of a digital media product or service in response to a brief.
Short Film Production (Factual) Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
This unit equips learners to plan and produce short factual films in response to a brief. It includes analysing the brief, researching the genre, production planning, resource allocation, risk assessment, and operating equipment to gather footage.

What you'll be able to do

  • Plan the production of a short film in a specified factual genre in response to a brief.
  • Undertake the production of a short film in a specified factual genre in response to a brief.
Short Film Production (Fiction) Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll plan and undertake the production of a short fiction film in response to a brief. The unit covers developing detailed production plans, resource identification, risk assessment, and justifying creative and logistical decisions within a specified genre.

What you'll be able to do

  • Plan the production of a short film in a specified fiction genre in response to a brief.
  • Undertake the production of a short film in a specified fiction genre in response to a brief.
Single Camera Techniques Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
It teaches you to set up and run single camera shoots within recognised genres and formats. You'll identify equipment, apply camera angle and lighting conventions, ensure set safety, and manage the shoot process effectively.

What you'll be able to do

  • Utilise appropriate processes to set up a single camera shoot.
  • Apply relevant conventions when setting up a single camera shoot.
  • Run a single camera shoot in a recognised genre.
  • Run a single camera shoot in a recognised format.
Sound Effects Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
This unit develops learners' skills in creating sound effects to accompany visual sequences. You'll identify different sound effect types, understand their characteristics and applications, and use appropriate tools and processes to enhance atmosphere and realism.

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify the different types of sound effects used in visual sequences
  • Understand the role of sound effects in enhancing visual storytelling
  • Select appropriate sound effects to complement a visual sequence
  • Use sound recording and editing equipment to create original sound effects
  • Manipulate existing sound recordings to create new and unique sound effects
  • Integrate sound effects into a visual sequence using appropriate software and techniques
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of the sound effects in enhancing the overall impact of the visual sequence
Understanding Digital Game Platforms Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
It teaches you to understand how different game platforms influence digital game design and realisation. You'll analyse platform effects on game mechanics, target audiences, technical constraints, and distribution methods to inform design decisions.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the influence of game platforms on digital game design
  • Understand the influence of game platforms on digital game realisation
Using a Game Engine Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll apply knowledge of game engines to build functional game mechanics. The unit covers identifying key features of different engines, comparing their suitability, understanding scripting languages, and implementing and refining game mechanics.

What you'll be able to do

  • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of different game engines and their functionalities.
  • Apply knowledge of game engine features to build functional game mechanics.
  • Design and implement game mechanics that contribute to the overall gameplay experience.
  • Test and refine game mechanics to ensure functionality and playability.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of the chosen game engine in achieving the desired game mechanics.
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.

  • Carry out editing projects to brief Legacy

    Standard

  • Communicate and Co-ordinate on a Multi-Camera Shoot

    Standard

  • Communicate and Co-ordinate within a Multi-Camera Shoot

    Standard

  • Edit Sound

    Standard

  • Edit animation

    Standard

  • Edit audio visual material

    Standard

  • Expose the image for portable single camera shoots with lights

    Standard

  • Lighting for a Single Camera

    Standard

  • Set and control lights for camera single shoots

    Standard

  • Set up lighting and camera for stop motion animation

    Standard

  • Set up lighting for visual effects

    Standard
04The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 3 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

Animation Techniques for FilmCreating 3D Digital GamesCreating Concept Art for Digital Media ApplicationsCreating and Publishing Digital ContentDevelopment of Film MakingEditing Sound for FilmFilm EditingFilm Studies

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 Navigator The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration
The Navigator Your plan for “Final Project” assumes the same two people are free in March. What have you seen that makes you slightly uneasy about that?
You One of them has been pulled onto the migration twice already. Probably fine.
The Navigator That is the thread worth pulling. Let us build the version where it happens a third time and find the move that works either way.
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.
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    For “Final Project” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.

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.

See Your Progress Grow Illustration
RSL Level 3 Award in Creative Digital Media
  • Carry out editing projects to brief Legacy
  • Communicate and Co-ordinate on a Multi-Camera Shoot
  • Communicate and Co-ordinate within a Multi-Camera Shoot
  • Edit Sound
  • Edit animation
  • Edit audio visual material
  • Expose the image for portable single camera shoots with lights
  • Lighting for a Single Camera
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

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 Animation Techniques for Film, one of this qualification's own units.

Animation Techniques for Film Level 3

Applied to your own work

Learners will produce animated visual sequences for film using appropriate techniques, tools, and conventions. The unit covers planning, asset preparation, animation creation, and application of principles such as timing, spacing, and movement.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
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Built for RSL Level 3 Award in Creative Digital Media

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

  1. Animation Techniques for Film
  2. Creating 3D Digital Games
  3. Creating Concept Art for Digital Media Applications
  4. Creating and Publishing Digital Content
  5. Development of Film Making
  6. Editing Sound for Film

and 14 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.

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