Digital Media – Cambridge Technical Level 3 Extended Certificate, Diploma or Extended Diploma

The Cambridge Technical in Digital is a great accompaniment to any combination of A-level and Cambridge Technical courses. It is an opportunity to improve your digital media talents using a combination of creativity and technical skills.

What will you study and learn?

Digital Media will help you develop the knowledge and practical skills required in the digital media industry. You will gain hands-on experience of the production process, developing your ideas from planning, through editing and post-production, to final presentation.

Course content and examinations

The course contains a range of centre assessed units with both practical and wider project-based assessments, as well as examined units on Media products and audiences and Pre- production and planning.

This qualification can be extended from the Extended Certificate, which is worth 1 A-level, to the Diploma, which is worth 2 A-levels and the Extended Diploma, which is worth 3.

This course will complement your sixth form study programme alongside other A-levels/Cambridge Technicals and you will gain an understanding of how different businesses and organisations in the media sector work.

There are 3 mandatory units in the extended certificate:

• Media products and audiences (examination)
• Pre-production and planning (examination)
• Create a media product (coursework)

The Diploma has the following additional mandatory units:

• Interactive Media product
• Social media and globalisation
• The Extended Diploma has the following additional mandatory units:
• TV and short film production
• Research for product development
• Application of converging technologies within a digital design proposal.

In addition, you will study some optional units, depending on which qualification you are working towards. These can range from social media, journalism, advertising media, 3D digital modelling and much more.

Where could the subject take you?

This qualification will help you in a wide range of different career paths and further study options regardless of the route you choose to take. In addition, there are a number of media related degree courses and career paths open to you, including media, film making and production, the communications industry, IT, journalism and product design.

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