The Diploma in Creative and Media was a new qualification for young people in England and Wales aged 14-19 and covered a rich range of disciplines including film, TV and fashion. Students of the Diploma gained knowledge, experience and skills enabling them to master processes common to all creative industries.

 

For more information go to The Sector Skills Council for the Audio and Visual Industries web site >>

Similarly to GCEs and GCSEs there were four exam boards who offered the qualification and set the curriculum for GCE Art and Design:
•    Edexcel
•    OCR
•    AQA
•    Welsh Board (WJEC has piloted the Welsh Bac since 2003 and this is linked to the new Diplomas)

All the exam boards offered the Diploma in Creative and Media at Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3. Each exam board had different modules around the creative arts and media production within each level. Below the modules that were most relevant by level and exam board.

 

Level 1 AQA Unit 1. Discovering Creativity, Level 2 Edexcel Unit 1.
Scene and OCR Unit 1. Exploring the creative and media world

  • In this unit learners investigated their local Creative and Media industry, looking at the products and facilities and the people that use them.
  • This module involveed research into the creative facilities and products in one specific area and recording the findings of two or more disciplines.
  • The OCR unit investigateed the language of creativity, commercial applications and the different skills involved in different sectors of the creative and media industry.
  • There was an opportunity for museums and galleries to facilitate research as part of the local Creative and Media industry and offer instruction on the collections, visitors and aims of the museum or gallery.

 

Level 3 Edexcel Unit 1. Capture

  • Learners explored the ways in which ideas, people, or objects may be captured in different mediums and technologies.
  • It involves knowledge about the past and current practices of capture in chosen medium and explores different techniques of capture.
  • Portraiture is a genre that combines many visual art mediums and so could assist a project on capture around the concept of capturing a person in the visual arts.

 

Level 3 OCR Unit 3. Analysing the influence of genre

  • In this unit learners needed to respond to a brief from within a creative or media genre and communicate their ideas from a range of possible solutions effectively.
  • Research into a range of genres with more specialised work into two genres in order to understand what might constitute a brief and the successful outcome for a brief in a specific genre.
  • Portraiture and self-portraiture could here act as two genres and a brief could be set for creating a portrait or self portrait.

 

 

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