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- 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.
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 by selecting appropriate animation techniques, planning processes, preparing assets, and applying principles of timing, spacing, and movement to create realistic animation.
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.
Character Rigging Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll gain knowledge and skills to rig static characters for animation within specified digital media contexts. The unit includes rigging principles, techniques, software tools, and the application of constraints and controllers.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge and understanding of rigging techniques.
- Rig a static character for animation within a specified digital media destination.
Character Rigging (Skill Unit) Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
It teaches you to rig static characters for animation by understanding rigging components and principles, analysing character design requirements, planning rigs, and applying techniques suitable for specified digital media destinations.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge of rigging to rig a static character for animation.
- Apply understanding of rigging to rig a static character for animation.
- Rig a static character for animation within a specified digital media destination.
Creating 3D Digital Animation Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll gain knowledge of 3D digital animation principles and production techniques to create animations for digital media products. The unit covers animation design, software application, and the creation of realistic movement.
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate knowledge of the principles of 3D digital animation
- Understand the design considerations for creating 3D digital animation
- Apply appropriate software and tools to create 3D digital animation
- Plan and design a 3D digital animation for a specified digital media product
- Produce a 3D digital animation that meets the requirements of the specified digital media product
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the 3D digital animation in achieving its intended purpose
Creating 3D Digital Animation (Skill Unit) Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll explore the design and production processes of 3D digital animation and its applications across various digital media products. They will develop skills to create digital animations for specified products, applying animation principles and production techniques.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge and understanding of the design of 3D digital animation.
- Apply knowledge and understanding of the production of 3D digital animation.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the potential uses of 3D digital animation across a range of digital media products.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the potential uses of 3D digital animation across a range of digital media destinations.
- Create a digital animation for a specified digital media product.
Creating 3D Digital Games Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll apply knowledge of 3D game types, platforms, design principles, and technologies to create a 3D digital game, identifying game characteristics and technical requirements relevant to chosen platforms.
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 Audio for Digita Media Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll apply audio design principles to create soundtracks for digital media products, understanding the importance of audio quality and file formats. The unit covers recording, editing, and integrating audio across various digital media formats.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge of audio design principles to digital media products.
- Demonstrate understanding of the use of audio across a range of digital media products and destinations.
- Create a soundtrack for a specified digital media product.
Creating Audio for Digita Media (Skill Unit) Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
This unit covers audio design principles and the use of audio across digital media products, enabling learners to create a soundtrack by understanding sound design, audio formats, recording equipment, and application in media contexts.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge and understanding of audio design.
- Demonstrate the use of audio across a range of digital media products.
- Demonstrate the use of audio across a range of digital media destinations.
- Create a soundtrack for a specified digital media product.
Creating Composited Video Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll apply compositing techniques such as layering and masking to create seamless visual effects in video packages. The unit covers compositing software use, colour correction, grading, and the role of composited imagery across digital media products.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge of compositing techniques to the creation of a composited video package for a specified digital media destination
- Apply understanding of compositing techniques to the creation of a composited video package for a specified digital media destination
- Apply knowledge of the use of composited still and moving imagery across a range of digital media products and destinations to the creation of a composited video package for a specified digital media destination
- Apply understanding of the use of composited still and moving imagery across a range of digital media products and destinations to the creation of a composited video package for a specified digital media destination
- Create a composited video package for a specified digital media destination
Creating Concept Art Digitally Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll learn to create concept art digitally for specified digital media products. The unit covers the role of concept art, techniques for idea generation and refinement, digital tool usage, and the importance of visual communication.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge of the production and presentation of concept art to create concept art for a specified digital media product
- Apply understanding of the production and presentation of concept art to create concept art for a specified digital media product
- Apply knowledge of the uses of concept art across a range of digital media products and destinations to create concept art for a specified digital media product
- Apply understanding of the uses of concept art across a range of digital media products and destinations to create concept art for a specified digital media product
- Create concept art for a specified digital media product
Creating Concept Art Digitally (Skill Unit) Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll develop skills in creating digital concept art for various media products. The unit covers production stages, presentation methods, design principles, and the application of concept art in game development and film production.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge and understanding of the production and presentation of concept art.
- Explain the uses of concept art across a range of digital media products and destinations.
- Create concept art for a specified digital media product.
Creating Concept Art for Digital Media Applications Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll create concept art for digital media applications by understanding its production role, analysing visual styles, generating initial sketches, and developing concept art that communicates the intended visual style.
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 Digital 3D Art Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll gain knowledge of 3D art creation processes and tools, including planning and software utilisation, to produce a portfolio of 3D artwork suitable for various digital media products and destinations.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge and understanding of the processes involved in creating 3D art.
- Apply knowledge and understanding of the tools involved in creating 3D art.
- Demonstrate the use of 3D art across a range of digital media products.
- Demonstrate the use of 3D art across a range of digital media destinations.
- Create a portfolio of 3D art for specified digital media destinations.
Creating Digital 3D Art (Skill Unit) Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
This unit provides learners with knowledge of 3D art creation processes and tools, including optimisation for different platforms, enabling them to produce a portfolio of 3D art for specified digital media destinations.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge and understanding of the processes involved in creating 3D art.
- Apply knowledge and understanding of the tools involved in creating 3D art.
- Demonstrate the use of 3D art across a range of digital media products.
- Demonstrate the use of 3D art across a range of digital media destinations.
- Create a portfolio of 3D art for specified digital media destinations.
Creating Digital Graphics Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll develop understanding of digital graphics and graphic design principles, including image formats, visual hierarchy, and colour theory, to create a digital graphics portfolio for a specified digital media product.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge and understanding of digital graphics.
- Apply knowledge and understanding of graphic design.
- Demonstrate the potential uses of digital graphics across a range of digital media products.
- Demonstrate the potential uses of digital graphics across a range of digital media destinations.
- Create a digital graphics portfolio for a specified digital media product.
Creating Digital Moving Image Packages for Digital Media Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll apply videography and editing techniques to create digital moving image packages suitable for various digital media destinations. The unit covers capturing images, editing, ensuring audio quality, and tailoring packages to target platforms.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge and understanding of digital videography to present digital moving image packages
- Present digital moving image packages for specified creative digital media destinations
Creating a 3D Environment Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll study the design and production processes of 3D environments, including planning, optimisation, and implementation for digital media destinations. The unit teaches you to create 3D environments using appropriate tools and techniques tailored to specified purposes.
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the processes involved in designing and producing 3D environments.
- Apply relevant tools and techniques for creating 3D environments.
- Analyse the uses of 3D environments across a range of digital media products and destinations.
- Create a 3D environment for a specified digital media destination, considering its purpose and target audience.
Creating a 3D Environment (Skill Unit) Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll explore the processes, tools, and techniques involved in designing and producing 3D environments. This includes applying 3D modelling, texturing, and lighting principles to create realistic environments for specified digital media destinations.
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the processes involved in designing and producing 3D environments.
- Apply knowledge of the tools and techniques used in 3D environment creation.
- Analyse the uses of 3D environments across a range of digital media products and destinations.
- Design and create a 3D environment suitable for a specified digital media destination.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the 3D environment in meeting the requirements of the digital media destination.
Creating a Digital Image Portfolio Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
This unit equips learners with skills in digital photography and image editing to create a professional digital image portfolio. You'll capture and enhance images while considering ethical issues relevant to the digital media sector.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge and understanding of digital photography and its uses across the digital media sector to create a digital image portfolio
- Create a digital image portfolio for a specified digital media destination
Creating a Digital Image Portfolio (Skill Unit) Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
It teaches you to apply digital photography principles and techniques to create a digital image portfolio. You'll demonstrate skills in capturing and editing images using equipment and software, showcasing a range of photographic methods.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge and understanding of digital photography to create a digital image portfolio.
- Apply knowledge and understanding of the uses of digital photography across the digital media sector.
- Tailor a digital image portfolio for a specified digital media destination.
Creating a Digital Media Application Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
This unit equips learners with the knowledge to create digital media applications for specified platforms. You'll identify app types, apply design principles, use creation tools, and consider visual design and branding to develop engaging, user-friendly apps.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge of different app types to the creation of a digital media application.
- Apply knowledge of app design principles to the creation of a digital media application.
- Apply knowledge of app creation tools to the creation of a digital media application.
- Apply knowledge of mobile tech platforms to the creation of a digital media application.
- Apply knowledge of target audiences to the creation of a digital media application.
- Create an app for a specified platform.
Creating a Social Media (Content) Strategy Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll develop a social media content strategy to promote a product or service to identified audiences. The unit covers target audience analysis, platform selection, content creation, and evaluation of strategy effectiveness.
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of the target audience for a product or service
- Analyse the characteristics of different social media platforms
- Determine the most suitable social media platforms for reaching the identified audiences
- Define clear and measurable objectives for the social media content strategy
- Create engaging and relevant content that aligns with the brand and resonates with the target audience
- Schedule and publish content across chosen social media platforms
- Monitor and evaluate the performance of the social media content strategy
- Adapt the social media content strategy based on performance data and audience feedback
Creating an Interactive Website Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
It teaches you to design and construct interactive, multi-page websites fulfilling defined purposes. You'll apply website design concepts, usability, accessibility, and use design software to create visually appealing, user-friendly websites with interactive elements.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge of website design concepts to create an interactive, multi-page website
- Apply understanding of website design concepts to create an interactive, multi-page website
- Apply knowledge of website construction processes to create an interactive, multi-page website
- Apply understanding of website construction processes to create an interactive, multi-page website
- Create an interactive, multi-page website which fulfils a defined purpose
Creating and Publishing Digital Content Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll develop practical skills in creating and publishing digital content using current content creation tools. They will produce text, image, and video-based content and apply publishing techniques 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
Creative Moving Image Editing Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll develop skills in digital moving image editing by applying knowledge of non-linear editing principles, video transitions, storytelling elements, and editing software and hardware to produce an edited sequence.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge and understanding of digital moving image editing techniques.
- Apply knowledge and understanding of digital moving image editing tools.
- Apply knowledge and understanding of digital moving image editing conventions.
- Create a digitally edited sequence for a specified destination.
Designing 3D Digital Games Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll analyse game design elements and production stages to design a digital game and plan its production, justifying design choices and outlining key tasks and resources for development.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge and understanding of games design to design a digital game
- Apply knowledge and understanding of games production to design a digital game and plan its production
- Apply knowledge and understanding of games platforms to design a digital game and plan its production
- Apply knowledge and understanding of games technologies to design a digital game and plan its production
Designing Effective Workflow for a Digital Media Production Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
This unit covers the design of effective workflows for digital media production, enabling learners to describe key production stages, analyse workflow impact on efficiency, and design and justify workflows tailored to specific digital media products.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge and understanding of workflow to create an efficient production process
- Apply knowledge and understanding of workflow to create an effective production process for a defined digital media product
Designing UI for Interactive Digital Media Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll apply UI design models, protocols, and technologies to create user interfaces for interactive digital media applications. The unit emphasises user-centred design, accessibility, usability, consistency, and user testing methods.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge of UI design models to the design of interactive digital media.
- Apply understanding of UI design protocols to the design of interactive digital media.
- Apply understanding of UI design technologies to the design of interactive digital media.
- Design the UI for a specified digital media application.
Designing UI for Interactive Digital Media (Skill Unit) Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
It teaches you to design user interfaces for interactive digital media applications by understanding UI design models, protocols, and technologies, selecting appropriate models, and applying relevant design guidelines.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge and understanding of UI design models to design the UI for a specified digital media application
- Apply knowledge and understanding of UI design protocols to design the UI for a specified digital media application
- Apply knowledge and understanding of UI design technologies to design the UI for a specified digital media application
Designing UX for Interactive Digital Media Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
It teaches you to design user experiences (UX) for interactive digital media applications. You'll apply UX design conventions and techniques to create wireframes, evaluate usability, and develop effective interfaces for specified applications.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge and understanding of UX design conventions to create the UX for a specified digital media application
- Apply knowledge and understanding of UX design techniques to create the UX for a specified digital media application
- Apply knowledge and understanding of UX design platforms to create the UX for a specified digital media application
- Apply knowledge and understanding of UX design technologies to create the UX for a specified digital media application
Designing UX for Interactive Digital Media (Skill Unit) Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
This unit provides learners with knowledge of UX design principles, conventions, and team roles to create user experiences for interactive digital media applications. You'll apply user research methods and UX design techniques to develop accessible and usable interfaces.
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of UX design conventions and principles.
- Apply UX design techniques to create user-friendly interfaces.
- Evaluate different platforms and technologies used in UX design for interactive digital media.
- Create the UX design for a specified digital media application, considering user needs and accessibility.
Designing a Digital Media Application Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll apply principles of user-centred design and usability testing to design a digital media application for a specified audience. The unit includes understanding different types of digital media applications and planning the production process from concept to launch.
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of app design principles and best practices.
- Apply app production processes to the design of a digital media application.
- Design a digital media application that meets the needs of a specified audience.
- Plan the production process for the designed digital media application, including resource allocation and timelines.
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.
Digital Character Modelling Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
It teaches you to apply character modelling techniques and technologies to create 3D characters for specified digital media destinations. You'll understand different modelling methods, their applications, and the impact of design choices on final models.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge and understanding of character modelling techniques.
- Demonstrate understanding of the uses of character modelling across a range of digital media destinations.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the technologies involved in character modelling.
- Create a 3D character for a specified digital media destination.
Editing Sound for Film Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll study sound editing principles and techniques for film. The unit covers the role of the sound editor, editing processes, synchronisation, and mixing of dialogue, music, and sound effects to enhance the film soundtrack.
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
You'll use appropriate processes, conventions, and tools to produce an edited visual sequence in a recognised format and genre. The unit covers editing techniques, continuity, pacing, and storytelling to create coherent film sequences.
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
It teaches you to analyse the key characteristics and historical context of a chosen film genre or style. You'll research significant figures and films within the genre, developing skills to present a well-supported critical analysis of its impact and development.
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
It teaches you to plan and execute the full production of a film project in response to a brief. You'll analyse project requirements, develop production plans and budgets, manage risks, and apply filming and editing techniques to produce a final film.
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 to light single and multi-camera shoots within recognised genres and formats. You'll set up lighting equipment, adjust levels and colour temperature, apply lighting techniques to create mood, 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 for defined digital media destinations. You'll understand production stages, presentation methods, and narrative structure to create effective visual 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.
Managing a Social Media Campaign Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll manage social media campaigns by understanding key campaign elements, setting objectives, identifying target audiences, implementing campaigns, monitoring performance, and adapting strategies based on data analysis.
What you'll be able to do
- Manage the implementation of a social media campaign.
- Manage the implementation of a social media campaign to promote a specified product.
- Manage the implementation of a social media campaign to promote a specified service.
- Manage the implementation of a social media campaign to promote a specified event.
Marketing a Digital Media Product or Service Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll understand the role and processes of marketing within the UK digital media industry, analysing marketing channels, legal and ethical considerations, and evaluating the impact of marketing strategies on brand awareness and sales.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge of the role of marketing in the digital media industry in the UK.
- Apply understanding of the role of marketing in the digital media industry in the UK.
- Apply knowledge of marketing processes across the digital media industry in the UK.
- Apply understanding of marketing processes across the digital media industry in the UK.
Marketing a Digital Media Product or Service (Skill Unit) Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll gain an understanding of marketing roles and processes within the UK digital media industry. The unit covers key marketing concepts, principles, and the analysis of marketing's impact on the success of digital media products and services.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge and understanding of the role of marketing in the digital media industry.
- Apply knowledge and understanding of marketing processes in the digital media industry in the UK.
Multi Camera Techniques Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll develop the skills to manage and coordinate a multi-camera shoot within recognised genres and formats. This includes understanding team roles, pre-production planning, industry conventions, and addressing challenges associated with multi-camera productions.
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.
Music Video Production Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
It teaches you to plan and produce a music video to a brief. You'll develop production plans, manage resources, consider legal and ethical issues, and execute the production to meet specified requirements.
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the skills to plan effectively for video production.
- Demonstrate the skills to produce a music video to a brief.
Planning a Career in Creative Digital Media Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll plan their career development in the creative digital media sector by identifying career paths, evaluating their skills, setting achievable goals, and creating detailed action plans for skill and knowledge development.
What you'll be able to do
- Plan effectively to develop a range of knowledge and skills to support future engagement with a career in the creative digital media sector
Planning and Pitching a Digital Media Product or Service Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
It teaches you to plan and pitch a digital media product or service idea to prospective investors. You'll generate ideas, conduct market research, develop detailed plans including target audience and budget, and prepare compelling pitch presentations.
What you'll be able to do
- Plan a digital media product or service idea.
- Prepare a pitch for a prospective ‘investor’ for a digital media product or service idea.
- Deliver a pitch to a prospective ‘investor’ of a digital media product or service idea.
Podcast production Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
This unit provides learners with the skills to create and record radio programmes or podcasts. You'll develop engaging content, apply scripting and sound design techniques, use recording equipment and audio editing software, and evaluate production success.
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate how to create a radio programme/podcast
- Demonstrate how to record a radio programme/podcast
- Evaluate the success of a radio programme/podcast
Practical Analytics Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
It teaches you to apply knowledge of built-in and external social media analytics tools to interpret data and inform decision-making for the development and refinement of social media strategies.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply understanding of built-in tools for social media analytics.
- Apply understanding of external tools for social media analytics.
- Apply understanding of the processes involved in social media analytics.
- Interpret data to inform decision making around the ongoing development of a social media strategy.
- Interpret data to inform decision making around the refinement of a social media strategy.
Pre-Production in Creative Digital Media Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll undertake effective pre-production activities for digital media projects. This includes conducting research, developing project proposals, creating storyboards or visualisations, and organising production schedules and resources.
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
This unit covers the planning and production of a digital media product or service in response to a brief. You'll analyse requirements, develop detailed production plans, identify necessary resources, and evaluate risks to ensure successful delivery.
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.
Project Management in Creative Digital Media Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
This unit provides learners with knowledge of effective project management techniques tailored to digital media production. You'll apply planning methods, manage time, identify risks, and propose mitigation strategies throughout the project lifecycle.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge of effective project management techniques in the context of digital media production.
- Demonstrate understanding of effective project management techniques.
- Oversee the production of a digital media product using project management techniques.
Promoting a Digital Media Product or Service Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
You'll study product promotion strategies within the UK digital media industry. The unit covers legal and ethical considerations, development and implementation of promotional plans, and evaluation of promotional effectiveness.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge and understanding of product promotion strategies within the digital media industry in the UK.
- Demonstrate the ability to promote a specified digital media product effectively.
- Identify and target a specific market segment for the digital media product.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the promotional activities undertaken.
Research Dissertation Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
It teaches you to produce a structured dissertation on a creative digital media topic by formulating research questions, gathering and analysing credible information, and presenting balanced, well-supported arguments with appropriate referencing.
What you'll be able to do
- Present a structured dissertation.
- Ensure the dissertation objectively answers a chosen creative digital media-related question.
Short Film Production (Factual) Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
It teaches you to plan and produce a short factual film by analysing briefs, researching genre-specific information, developing production plans, allocating resources, and managing risks during production.
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 film within a specified fiction genre in response to a brief. The unit includes script development, resource management, risk assessment, and justification of creative decisions throughout the production process.
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
This unit covers the setup and operation of single camera shoots within recognised genres, including equipment identification, setup procedures, safety considerations, and application of camera angles, movement, and lighting conventions.
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 for visual sequences. You'll identify different sound effect types, understand their applications, and use recording and editing tools to produce original effects.
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
Starting a Business in Creative Digital Media Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
This unit provides learners with knowledge of entrepreneurship and business start-up processes in the creative digital media sector. You'll explore entrepreneurial concepts, assess personal abilities, and develop a viable business idea.
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate knowledge of entrepreneurial principles and practices
- Assess personal entrepreneurial skills and abilities
- Identify a viable business idea within the creative digital media sector
- Evaluate the market potential for the business idea
- Develop a basic business plan outlining the key aspects of the proposed venture
- Analyse the resources required to start and operate the business
- Identify potential sources of funding and support for the business
Starting an Online Business Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
This unit covers the planning and establishment of an online business, including the identification of key components of a business plan, legal and regulatory requirements, and the importance of market research. You'll gain skills to determine target audiences and set up necessary infrastructure such as websites and payment systems.
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a comprehensive plan for establishing an online business.
- Determine the target audience and market for the online business.
- Set up the necessary infrastructure and systems for the online business, including website, payment processing, and customer service.
Testing a Creative Digital Media Product Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
This unit covers quality assurance processes in the creative digital media sector. You'll understand testing procedures, documentation conventions, and the role of user feedback to evaluate and improve digital media products.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply understanding of the processes and conventions underpinning effective quality assurance in one area of the creative digital media sector.
- Test a digital media product.
Understanding Digital Game Platforms Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
This unit provides learners with an understanding of 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.
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
This unit covers the features and functionalities of various game engines, enabling learners to compare their strengths and weaknesses. You'll apply scripting languages and tools to design, implement, and refine functional game mechanics within a game engine environment.
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.
Vlog Production Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
This unit equips learners with skills to plan, create, present, edit, and deliver vlog episodes tailored to specific audiences and platforms. You'll develop content plans, use appropriate equipment, and demonstrate effective communication and presentation skills.
What you'll be able to do
- Plan vlog episodes for a specified audience.
- Create vlog episodes.
- Present vlog episodes in a format appropriate to a specified audience.
- Edit vlog episodes.
- Deliver vlog episodes in a format appropriate to a specified platform.
Writing for Creative Digital Media Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
This unit equips learners to write effectively for various digital media audiences and destinations by analysing audience characteristics, adapting writing style and tone, and producing engaging copy for specified media products.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge and understanding of writing for a range of digital media audiences and destinations to the creation of copy for specified creative digital media destinations.
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.
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Administer and organise the campaign
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Carry out editing projects to brief Legacy
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Communicate and Co-ordinate on a Multi-Camera Shoot
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Communicate and Co-ordinate within a Multi-Camera Shoot
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Compositing Animation
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Conduct service design assignments
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Create 3D Animation
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Create Panoramic Video Assets
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Create an interactive website
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Create computer generated images for animation
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Design concept and functionality for immersive products
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Develop Digital Workflow
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Devise and evaluate user testing of games and interactive media project outputs
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Edit Sound
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Edit animation
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Expose the image for portable single camera shoots with lights
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Lighting for a Single Camera
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Manage and maintain social marketing programmes
Showing 18 of 25 standards these units map to.
04Where it leads
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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- 8 records
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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 138 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
Social Media Director
This work can lead into broader digital marketing, content strategy, or a specialised social media leadership role.
See the whole journey05The 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 FilmCharacter RiggingCharacter Rigging (Skill Unit)Creating 3D Digital AnimationCreating 3D Digital Animation (Skill Unit)Creating 3D Digital GamesCreating Audio for Digita MediaCreating Audio for Digita Media (Skill Unit)
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 The Coach Make the case from “Managing a Social Media Campaign” to me in thirty seconds. I am the person who signs it off and I am already late.
You It would improve engagement and bring us in line with best practice.
The Coach Neither of those costs me anything to say no to. Open with the number that changes if I do nothing.
- Pitch it Evaluate
“Managing a Social Media Campaign” gets practised as a pitch. You make the case out loud, Zavmo asks the question the room would ask, and you make it again.
- Bring your own plan Create
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.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Research Dissertation” 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
“Project Management in Creative Digital Media” 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.
RSL Level 3 Diploma in Creative Digital Media
- Administer and organise the campaign
- 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
- Compositing Animation
- Conduct service design assignments
- Create 3D Animation
- Create Panoramic Video Assets
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.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Which job do you mean?
Learners will produce animated visual sequences for film by selecting appropriate animation techniques, planning processes, preparing assets, and applying principles of timing, spacing, and movement to create realistic animation.
How the thinking builds
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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.
Built for RSL Level 3 Diploma in Creative Digital Media
65 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by RSL Awards Ltd.
- Animation Techniques for Film
- Character Rigging
- Character Rigging (Skill Unit)
- Creating 3D Digital Animation
- Creating 3D Digital Animation (Skill Unit)
- Creating 3D Digital Games
and 59 more in the full unit list below.
Free tools
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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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