Media
The OCR Level 3 Nationals in Media have been developed to recognise learners' skills, knowledge and understanding of the media sector.
The following summarises this enhanced provision:
- Revisions to units 2 and 3.
- New unit in web authoring and design.
These qualifications are designed to recognise candidates' skills, knowledge and understanding of the media sector. Suitable for post-16 candidates only, they will provide a high quality, industry-recognised qualification.
Developed in consultation with the sector, the qualification allows candidates to select from a range of optional units. Its flexibility also enables candidates to achieve individual units or a full qualification: Certificate, Diploma or Extended Diploma, according to their needs.
Progression to further qualifications, such as HNDs or degrees in media related subjects, is a likely route.
Alternatively, this qualification is designed to enable candidates to enter employment at a trainee level. However, employment in most media-related areas usually involves progression to specialist Level 4 qualifications.
Specification aims
These qualifications specifically aim to:
- Develop learner's knowledge and understanding of Media and the chosen specialist route if selected.
- Develop learner's ability to generate and apply their ideas, using the technology available to them as a tool to advance those creative ideas.
- Develop learner's skills, knowledge and understanding in contexts that are directly relevant to employment situations, thereby enhancing employability within design.
- Develop learner's ability to work autonomously and effectively in a Media context
- Enable learners to develop knowledge and understanding in specialist areas of Media, and demonstrate the skills needed to participate in the operation and development of real Media organisations.
- Encourage progression by assisting in the development of skills, knowledge and understanding which learners will need to access further or high education programmes or occupational training on a full-time or part-time basis.
- Encourage progression by assisting in the development of skills, knowledge and understanding which learners will need to enter employment, or enhance their current employment status.
- Promote interaction between employers, centres and learners by relating teaching and assessment to real organisations.
List of Unit Titles
Mandatory units
- Unit 1 Introduction to the media and textual analysis
- Unit 2 Media pre-production and planning
- Unit 3 Media production
- Unit 4 Marketing media and audience feedback
Optional units
Non-specialist units
- Unit 5 Ideas generation for media products
- Unit 6 Production management in media organisations
- Unit 7 Presentations and exhibitions
- Unit 8 Drawing and illustration for the media industry
- Unit 9 Interview and presentation techniques
- Unit 10 Career planning for the media industry
- Unit 11 Developing skills through work experience in the media industry
Writing and publishing specialist pathway
- Unit 12 Factual writing for print products
- Unit 13 Fictional writing for print products
- Unit 14 Publishing
- Unit 15 Photography and digital imaging
- Unit 16 Design and layout
TV and film specialist pathway
- Unit 17 Video production and editing
- Unit 18 Audio for the moving image
- Unit 19 UK film studies
- Unit 20 Television production
- Unit 21 Writing for the screen
- Unit 22 Film and television production and editing
- Unit 23 Cartooning and animation
Audio specialist pathway
- Unit 24 Music technology
- Unit 25 Music recording and production
- Unit 26 Talk radio production
- Unit 27 Music radio production
- Unit 28 Writing for the radio
Games design specialist pathway
- Unit 29 Design for games
- Unit 30 Art and animation for computer games
- Unit 31 Programming for computer games
- Unit 32 Computer games production
- Unit 33 Computer games technologies
