Course Summary
Course Category: PLC (Further Education - FET) Apply directly to College
Level up your digital media skills in this one-year advanced course, where you’ll create stunning, interactive websites, immersive videos, and social media campaigns designed for all platforms. Learn to build responsive websites that adapt beautifully to mobile, tablet, and desktop screens, while integrating sound, video, animations, and 3D graphics.
As part of the course, you will write, shoot, and produce a short film, offering valuable experience in storytelling, cinematography, and editing. You will also craft a soundscape and produce a professional podcast, gaining hands-on experience with audio production. In addition, students will develop skills in creating promotional videos and social media campaigns tailored for all platforms, from Instagram and TikTok to YouTube and Facebook. This part of the course emphasises the strategies behind engaging content creation and the technical skills needed to produce shareable, platform-optimized media.
Course Details
What will you study?
Progression to CAO Courses
The Student - Career Interests
This course is typically suited for people with the following Career Interests:
Creative
Creative people are drawn to careers and activities that enable them to take responsibility for the design, layout or sensory impact of something (visual, auditory etc). They may be atrracted to the traditional artistic pursuits such as painting, sculpture, singing, or music. Or they may show more interest in design activities, such as architecture, animation, or craft areas, such as pottery and ceramics.
Creative people use their personal understanding of people and the world they live in to guide their work. Creative people like to work in unstructured workplaces, enjoy taking risks and prefer a minimum of routine.
Enterprising
Enterprising people like situations that involve using resources for personal or corporate economic gain. Such people may have an opportunistic frame of mind, and are drawn to commerce, trade and making deals. Some pursue sales and marketing occupations. Many will eventually end up owning their own business, or in management roles in larger organisations. They tend to be very goal-oriented and work best when focused on a target. Some have an entrepreneurial inclination.
