T-Level in Media, Broadcast, and Production Creative Media Technician

T Levels are a new, two-year qualification designed with employers to give you a head start towards the future you want. They follow GCSEs and are equivalent to three A Levels. T Levels offer an alternative to A levels, and apprenticeship or other post 16 courses and ensure that you gain the knowledge and skills you need to move into skilled work, an apprenticeship or further study.

The Media sector is strong internationally, nationally, and locally. Over 5,000 people work within Creative and Digital Media in Leicestershire and that number grows every year. Media content is consumed by nearly everyone on the planet and the need for people to create, capture, and edit that content is constantly rising.

The Media, Broadcast, and Production T Level will give you the skills and knowledge needed to enter the creative media workforce. You�ll learn the latest techniques and skills to plan, prepare, capture, finalise, then publish media assets. These skills will allow you to fit in with the smallest media companies to the largest big screen productions.

Year 1:

1. Core knowledge and understanding of contexts, concepts and theories

• Employer set project
• Industry placement

Employer Set Project: A project set by media employers that requires you to apply your knowledge to a real-life problem in the industry

Industry Placement: You will have the opportunity to put the knowledge and skills you have learned in to action as you start your industry placement. You will work with an external media industry employer to apply your knowledge and develop your technical skills in a real-life media workplace.

Year 2:

1. Occupational Specialism

• Plan, prepare, source and generate media assets
• Assemble, edit, and finalise media assets
• Prepare, package, and deliver edited media assets
• Preserve media assets for future use/reversioning

2. Continuing your industry placement: You will continue to hone the knowledge and skills in the workplace.

• GCSE English Language at grade 5 or above.
• GCSE Maths at grade 5 or above.
• A Media GCSE at grade 4 or above (preferable)
• At least two other GCSE qualifications at grade 4 or above
• Previous study in a media subject is not a requirement; however, you should have an interest in the media sector and be prepared to discuss this further at interview

T Levels offer many opportunities for progression:

• Progress to University: You can use the UCAS points you achieve as a result of completing your T level to continue your studies at university.
• Enter Employment: You can use the skills, knowledge and experience you have gained to start working in the media industry.
• Apprenticeship: There are many opportunities offered through apprenticeships that allow you to carry on learning (20%) whilst spending most of your time (80%) furthering your skills in the workplace.