Course overview
A Foundation Apprenticeship in Creative and Digital Media is an opportunity if you are a senior phase pupil, still attending school, to undertake industry specific qualifications and blend an academic qualification with work-based learning.
By working on real media projects and products, the course will help develop your skills and experience in a range of creative and digital media disciplines, taking into account individual interests. These could include video, audio/ podcast production, social media, digital design, digital journalism.
What you will learn
The course is delivered holistically through a series of practical media production projects across a range of media types and platforms.
The work-based learning component of the course will involve working either on an external work placement or as part of an in-house media production team at Glasgow Kelvin College, creating digital media content for the college and external partners and clients.
The practical projects create assessment evidence for the following units:
National Progression Award in Creative and Digital Media: Technologies, Processes and Practices
- Creative Industries: An Introduction
- Creative Industries: Understanding a Creative Brief
- Media: Understanding the Creative Process
- Storytelling for the Creative Industries
Diploma in Creative and Digital Media
- Work effectively with others in the Creative Industries
- Ensure your own actions reduce risks to Health and Safety
- Communicating using digital marketing/ sales channels
- Use digital and social media in marketing campaigns
Industry Challenge Project
Entry requirements
This course is for S6 students only
Achieved or working towards Highers (A-C) in relevant subject areas: English, Media Studies, ICT etc. by end of S6
Future prospects
The qualification will help develop skills and make professional contacts that would benefit your career in film & TV production, social media, public relations, marketing, audio/ radio and digital design.
Successful completion of the course may support progression to:
- Modern Apprenticeship in Creative and Digital Media
- HNC/D in Creative Industries
- University degree programme