Level 3 CTEC Certificate/Extended Certificate or Diploma in Digital Media
Course Code: Q100095
Key Information
Course type
Vocational
Campus:
Sixth Form Campus
Start Date:
08 Sept 2025
Duration:
1 year
Attendance:
Full-time
Fees:
Free
- Certificate equivalent to one AS Level
- Extended Certificate equivalent to one A Level
- Diploma equivalent to two A Levels
For those interested in a career in digital media production, who are keen writers and have a strong interest in social media.
Units include:
- journalism processes
- producing your own print-based or audio-visual product
- media products and audiences
- pre-production and planning
- social media and globalisation
- journalism and the news industry.
You will begin by learning how media institutions operate to create media products that will appeal to target audiences. You will also study journalism processes and get creative in producing your own print-based or audio-visual product.
There are a range of specific course options, which will include trips to major gaming industry events with a chance to test some newly released games. There will also be visits to both the University of Portsmouth and Southampton Solent University, alongside professionally led workshops sessions delivered through the course curriculum as well as possible trips to EGX and REZZED gaming expos.
A minimum of five GCSEs at grade 4 or above, including English language.
You will have a 9.55am start, one lesson in the morning, one in the afternoon and a guaranteed 4pm finish. You will also have at least one morning and one afternoon per week free for private study.
Assessments will comprise 60% personal investigation and 40% externally set practical exam. Your coursework is internally assessed and externally moderated.
You will have a vast array of job opportunities within the field of interactive media entertainment (computer games). Digital media games design and development will open up opportunities to those who are looking to progress to either a production, design, or programming aspect of the industry.
Level 3 CTEC Certificate/Extended Certificate or Diploma in Digital Media
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