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Diploma in Creative Media Production & Technology Level 3 - Creative Writing

at Harlow College, Harlow · college

Ofsted rated their overall effectivenessGood2024see the detail

Level 3Applied and BTECDiploma2 yearsFull time

What the college says

Anyone looking hoping to start a career as an author, script writer, playwright, or working within the publishing industry. This course has been designed to nurture budding authors, to build their confidence and develop their writing skills, to expose them to a range of different genre and writing medium, help them to hone their craft, and most importantly, build their confidence. In year one you will concentrate on developing a creative writing portfolio and setting up a website to promote your work. You will experience writing material for a range of different audiences and developing original content for a number of different mediums. These may include poetry; writing for children, the stage and radio. You will discover how to record sound effects and incorporate them into your scripts as well as .looking at lighting and stage design. Some of your work could be published in our online magazine Spotlight, giving you a chance to get your work read by a wider audience. In the second year you will work on a project for television which will include not only the script but promotional material including a short, filmed trailer. You will also investigate job opportunities, and perfect CVs and UCAS applications, should you decide to go to university. Throughout the course you will develop your research and presentation skills and conduct a major project of your own choosing which will form part of an exhibition at the end of each year.

What you need to get on

Diploma - 4 GCSEs at grade 4 or above including grade 4 in English Language or a Level 2 in Multimedia at a Merit or above. Extended Diploma – successful completion of the Level 3 Diploma at a Merit or above.

How you are assessed

One subject in depth, assessed largely through coursework and projects.

What this level means

The A-level-equivalent step, and what universities and employers ask for.

Is it open to 16 to 18 year olds?

Approved for 16 to 18 study on the government's Section 96 list.

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