RSL
    Level 3
    QN: 603/6341/1
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    RSL Level 3 Diploma for Creative Industries Practitioners

    Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by RSL. Classified as a Vocationally-Related Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 3270 hours.

    Qualification Level
    Level 3
    Awarding Body
    RSL
    Syllabus Units
    43 Units
    Guided Hours
    3270 hrs
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    Course Syllabus & Study Modules

    Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.

    1

    Collaborative Music Composition

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate the skills to collaborate with a second party to create complete original repertoire for specified musical destinations.
    2

    Collaborative Project

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Carry out defined roles relating to planning, developing, promoting and presenting a music-related project in collaboration with others.
    3

    Copyright and Music

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate an understanding of music copyright in relation to their own musical work and associated creative output.
    4

    Creating 3D Digital Games

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Apply knowledge and understanding of 3D games types, platforms, design, technologies and audiences to create a 3D digital game
    5

    Creating a Digital Image Portfolio

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Apply knowledge and understanding of digital photography and its uses across the digital media sector to create a digital image portfolio for a specified digital media destination.
    6

    Creating and Publishing Digital Content

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Use a range of current content creation tools to create and publish digital content to fulfil a specific purpose.
    7

    Development of Music Recording Technology

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the development of recording media, assessing digital and analogue recording media usage and techniques up to and including current day practice.
    8

    Digital Recording and Production

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Record sound sources and edit recordings using digital audio recording equipment.
    9

    Listening to Music

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Analyse the relationship between the key elements of music and the personal responses they elicit.
    10

    Managing a Music Event

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Manage a team towards the realisation of a musical event or series of musical events.
    11

    Managing a Social Media Campaign

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Manage the implementation of a social media campaign to promote a specified product, service or event
    12

    Music Industry Revenue Flow

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the flow of revenue through the UK music industry and how it relates to their potential careers.
    13

    Music Publishing

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the means by which music can be published and the associated ways in which revenue might be generated.
    14

    Music Research Project

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Present a structured dissertation which objectively answers a chosen music-related question.
    15

    Music Sequencing and Production

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate the skills to use DAW software to create a project file.
    16

    Performing Music Live

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate the skills to perform repertoire in a live environment.
    17

    Planning a Career in Creative Digital Media

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Plan effectively to develop a range of knowledge and skills to support future engagement with a career in the creative digital media sector
    18

    Planning and Pitching a Digital Media Product or Service

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Plan and deliver a pitch to a prospective ‘investor’ of a digital media product or service idea.
    19

    Planning for a Career in Music

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Plan effectively to develop a range of knowledge and skills to support future engagement with the music profession.
    20

    Producing a Digital Media Product or Service

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Plan for and undertake the production of a digital media product or service in response to a brief
    21

    Research Dissertation

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Present a structured dissertation which objectively answers a chosen creative digital media-related question
    22

    Royalties and Music

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the role of collection societies, labels and publishers in the collation and distribution of royalties in the UK music industry.
    23

    Setting Up a Music Business

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Identify key entrepreneurial skills required for a music business startup and create a business idea and supporting rationale.
    24

    Solo Music Composition

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate the skills to compose a set of finished original music.
    25

    Starting an Online Business

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Plan and set up an online business
    26

    Understanding Live Sound Design

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the relationship between venues and sound reinforcement applications.2.
    • Understand the technical requirements of modern sound reinforcement applications.3.
    • Understand finance and health and safety aspects of sound reinforcement provision.
    27

    Understanding Recording Studio Design

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the basic principles of recording studio design, the technical requirements of modern recording studios and the operation of a recording studio as a business.
    28

    Understanding Recording Techniques

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand basic acoustic principles, the technical operation of microphones and Dis, and recording techniques.
    29

    Working as a Freelance Music Practitioner

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate the skills to manage a music-related portfolio career, understanding personal suitability for this type of career.
    30

    Working in the Music Industry

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Establish strategies for generating sustainable income in the UK music industry.
    31

    Writing for Creative Digital Media

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Apply knowledge and understanding of writing for a range of digital media audiences and destinations to the creation of copy for specified creative digital media destinations.

    Regulatory & Verification Details

    Qualification Number (QN)
    603/6341/1
    Regulated Status
    Available to learners
    Awarding Body
    RSL
    Qualification Type
    Vocationally-Related Qualification
    Operational Start
    Sept 2020