KS4 Creative iMedia

Creative iMedia equips students with essential, industry-relevant digital skills, combining creativity with technical knowledge. As a practical, vocational qualification equivalent to a GCSE, it prepares students for careers in the rapidly growing creative, media, and digital technology sectors.

Creative Computing and Digital Media are a key part of many areas of our everyday lives. Production of digital media products is a requirement of almost every business, so there is huge demand for a skilled and digitally literate workforce. This qualification will help you to think creatively, innovatively, analytically, logically and critically develop specific and transferable skills such as research, planning and review, working with others and communicating creative concepts. The qualification’s hands-on approach has strong relevance to the way young people use the technology required in creative media. The options available offer the chance for students to explore areas of creative media that interest them. 

Exam Board

OCR

How is the course examined?

Written exam:

Creative iMedia in the media industry           90 minutes

NEA:

Visual identity and digital graphics

Interactive digital media

Structure of the curriculum

This course focuses on three topics:

Creative iMedia in the media industry

Visual identity and digital graphics

Interactive digital media

Why is it structured this way?

The examined unit Creative iMedia in the media industry includes sections covering the theory for both NEA units. Thus, it is sensible to cover the theory for each NEA unit in turn. The exam comes at the end of Year 11 once all the content has been covered.

How will I be assessed?

This is a level 2 course awarded on the following scale: Level 2 – Distinction* (*2), Distinction (D2), Merit (M2), Pass (P2) Level 1 – Distinction (D1), Merit (M1), Pass (P1) and Fail/Unclassified.