Creative Media Diploma
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Welcome to the Creative Media Department
What Will I Study?
The Creative and Media Diploma equips learners with the necessary creative knowledge, skills and understanding required to progress in this broad industry.
Diploma Units
The units that you will cover are:
Scene
Looking at the local area and learning about the Creative and Media industries in Cambridgeshire and the surrounding regions. This will involve some trips and visits to investigate the types of employment that
may be available to you in the future.
Performance
Either as a singer, actor, dancer (or combination of all), or a set/costume/lighting/makeup designer you will take part in a large scale production.
Artefact
You will make something, whether it is a film, or an exhibition of photographs or artwork, a piece of memorabilia, costume or props for a production, or stage set.
Record
You may make a music video, or a TV news program. You might perhaps record and broadcast a program on the Neale-Wade/Cromwell radio station. You might make a record of events using art work, photographs or text.
Campaign
Taking part in a piece of theatre in primary schools, you will try to educate and challenge people's views on a topic like: multimedia intimidation, healthy eating, littering, road safety or bullying. You do not have
to perform, but could develop an internet site for your campaign. You may develop a poster/leaflet campaign.
Festival
You will look at and research a whole variety of festivals around the world, and plan your own local one in conjunction with the other 2 schools in our consortium.
Project Report
Choosing one of the above, you complete an exam paper about how that unit went.
How Am I Assessed?
All the above units are worth the same amount. You will get a grade (A*-C) for your principal learning. Within each unit you will be graded on your artistic skills, your ability to plan and execute successful Creative
and Media projects and your understanding of the forms and disciplines that you work in. For instance you may look at the modern musical, and study various texts including Grease, High School Musical, The Rocky Horror Show
and lots more.
Will I Have To Travel?
The course will be running at Cromwell. Neale-Wade students will travel to Cromwell once a week. They will not have to pay for their transport. Thomas Clarkson students will travel for one day a week to Sir Harry Smith.
Will There By Any Indepedant Study?
This is a level 2 course and will require the right kind of student who is able to work on their own and meet deadlines. There will be weekly tasks to complete in your own time.
Will There Be Any Coursework?
For each unit there is a portfolio that needs completing. This could be a piece to camera, an audio recording, collages, diagrams, designs, brainstorms, flow charts, bullet points, or it could be written in a more essay style.
What Else Will I Need To Study?
You will have to complete Functinal Skills in English, Maths, ICT and an additional course of your choice. You will also complete a project which is a seperate qualification, but still forms part of the diploma.
What Do I Need?
Diaries will be supplied and will need to be brought each week; along with the normal equipment expected in a pencil case.
What Is It Worth?
The principal learning is equivalent to 3 GCSEs. The Diploma as a whole (including English, Maths, ICT and an additional subject) is equivalent to 7 GCSEs grades A* to C.