Level 3 BTEC in Creative Media Production

What exam board do we use?

BTECs are run by Pearson.

How are marks awarded?

Most work is coursework, marked over the two years of study. There’s an externally marked unit worth 33% in which students create a media product based on a brief set by Pearson over a 20 hour supervised period.

What will I study?

At St Paul’s we focus primarily on the moving image side of Creative Digital Media. Units include:

Film Production – Fiction

Scriptwriting

Single Camera Techniques

Film Editing

Digital Media Skills

How are the units structured?

Each unit is in the form of a brief from a company asking you to carry out work for them.

Each is made up of three different sections, or Learning Aims.

LAA: Research and reporting

You will be asked to find out about a particular aspect of media production and write a report on its uses and applications. For example you might find out about how productions utilise a single camera for a media product and what the advantages and disadvantages are when compared to using multiple cameras; or how scripts are used to help develop narratives and aid in the planning of productions.

LAB: Pre-production

This is the work that precedes the actual media text. You might work on ways of recording a conversation between two people, showing different angles, with only one camera; or prepare storyboards or scripts for what you will film.

LAC: The production

Here you will create a media product. You will be in charge or organising the equipment, people, locations etc. You will direct your team and use what you create to construct a text. You might film a conversation several times and use editing software to piece the best takes together, adding music for effect, adjusting the colour and so on.