YOUNG PEOPLE’S COLLEGEMedia

UAL LEVEL 2DIPLOMA IN

CREATIVE MEDIA PRODUCTION

COURSE HANDBOOK2015-2016

Name ……………………………………….

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CONTENTS

1 INTRODUCTION

2 COURSE DETAILS

3 YEAR CALENDAR (with Parent’s Evening Dates)

4 WEEKLY TIMETABLE

5 DETAILS OF ASSESSMENT

6 TUTORIAL PROGRAMME

7 LEARNER RESPONSIBILITY

8 WORK EXPERIENCE DETAILS

9 COMMUNICATION CHANNELS

10 HEALTH AND SAFETY

11 SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING

12 EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

13 ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE REVIEW

14 MISCONDUCT PROCEDURE

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1 INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the Media Department of Canterbury College and the UAL Level 2 Diploma in Creative Media Production Course. You have chosen to undertake one year of study in a very successful department and a very successful college. If you engage fully with all that the course offers to you, you career possibilities are endless. We have ex-students who are journalists, music video makers, web designers and a variety of other media related careers.

Name of Course - Creative Media Production UAL Diploma Level 2

Course Code -

Awarding Body - UAL

Course Co-ordinator - Alma Kopric - E102 01227811341/812049/812050

a.kopric@canterburycollege.ac.uk

Personal tutor - Alma Kopric, Dave Turner

Course Team Alma Kopric, Dave Turner, Kate Gratton, Donna Fitzgerald

Section Manager - Zoran Tesic

N.B.Your College Diary contains more detailed information regarding the range of College facilities, the tutorial system, appeals, and disciplinary and poor performance procedures and how to access careers advice. Please ensure that you read and are aware of the contents of your diary.

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2 COURSE DETAILS Unit Specification

Semester 1:

Learning Outcomes

1Introduction to creative media methods and skills

2Introduction to production techniques in creative media

3 Understanding an audience in creative media production

4Contextual research for creative media production

Semester 2:

Learning Outcomes

5 Exploring audio production and technology

6 Exploring visual production and technology

7 Exploring interactive media production and technology

Semester 3:

Learning Outcomes

8 Personal project and presentation in creative media production

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3 YEAR CALENDAR WITH PARENT’S EVENING DATESWeek No

Wk Commencing Monday

1 27 July 20152 3 August3 10 August4 17 August5 24 August6 31 August7 7 September INDUCTION WEEK 18 14 September INDUCTION WEEK 2

16TH OF SEPTEMBER INDUCTION PAREENTS EVENING 9 21 September Course start 10 28 September11 5 October12 12 October13 19 October Progression Week. Friday, 23 October – Curriculum Development Day 14 26 October SELF DIRECTED STUDY WEEK15 2 November16 9 November17 16 November18 23 November19 30 November20 7 December PROJECT 1 (SKILLS DEVELOPMENT PORTFOLIO) DEADLINE 21 14 December Parents evening Wednesday 16th December

Progression Week. TERM ENDS FRIDAY 18 DECEMBER 201522 21 December 21st Course Review Day, 22nd Admin Day College closed 24, 25 December 23 28 December College closed 28 December and 1 January 201624 4 January 2016 TERM STARTS 4 JANUARY 201625 11 January26 18 January27 25 January28 1 February29 8 February Progression Week.30 15 February SELF-DIRECTED STUDY WEEK 31 22 February 22 February Course Review day32 29 February33 7 March34 14 March PROJECT 2 DEADLINE 35 21 March Progression Week. TERM ENDS THURSDAY 24 MARCH

College closed Friday 25 March 2016. 36 28 March College closed Monday 28 March37 4 April38 11 April TERM STARTS MONDAY 11 APRIL39 18 April40 25 April41 2 May College Closed 2 May 42 9 May43 16 May44 23 May Work Experience and Progression Week.45 30 May College Closed 30 May SELF DIRECTED STUDY WEEK46 6 June47 13 June48 20 June All coursework to be completed – Final deadline for all units

FINAL MAJOR PROJECT DEADLINE 49 27 June EXIBITION AND COURSE CELEBRATION50 4 July TERM ENDS FRIDAY 8 JULY 201651 11 July 11 July Course Review day 18 July Admin day52 18 July 2016

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4 WEEKLY TIMETABLE– 2015-2016 Day 1 Session 1 Break Session 2 Lunch Session 3 Break Session 4

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Day 2 Session 1 Break Session 2 Lunch Session 3 Break Session 4

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Day 3 Session 1 Break Session 2 Lunch Session 3 Break Session 4

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5 DETAILS OF ASSESSMENT

The grades you can achieve for the units are – Pass. Merit and Distinction. Your

work will be marked as you complete each project, which will cover all learning

outcomes for selected units. To achieve a final grade of a distinction all your criteria

need to have achieved that grade.

During Welcome Week, and the first week of your course proper, you will be told exactly

how much work will be required of you by each of your Unit lecturers. They will go over

their assessment calendar with you, and give you a clear idea of how your work will be

graded. You will also be reminded of the importance placed on meeting deadlines on

your course. This is done because meeting deadlines is the most important aspect of

working in the media industries.

VERIFICATION

The lecturer teaching you will assess all your assignments. A sample of the classes

assignments are then “double-marked” by a lecturer not teaching you the relevant Unit,

(this is called Internal Verification).

QUERYING YOUR MARK

As a part of your assignments you are expected to assess your work yourself, and if you

fundamentally disagree with the assessor’s mark, you can follow the follow procedure: -

1. Discuss the grading (mark) with the assessor,

2. If a compromise cannot be reached discuss the grade with either the verifier assigned

to that work, or with your personal tutor or the course tutor.

3. If agreement is still not reached then please follow the appeals procedure as detailed

in the Diary you will receive.

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Assessment Calendar

Level 1 Diploma in Creative Media production 2015-2016

Skills development portfolio Completed Student signatureWeek beginning 19th October

SDP Working progress review

11th December 2015 SDP FINAL DEADLINEProject

Week beginning 8th February

Project Working progress review

18th March 2016 PROJECT FINAL DEADLINE

Final Major ProjectWeek beginning 23rd May FMP Working progress

review17th June FMP FINAL DEADLINE30th June End of year exhibition for L1

&L2

Once on the course you will be required to comply to weakly set tasks and weakly deadlines that your subject tutors will be working on with you.

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8 TUTORIAL PROGRAMME

The College runs a planned tutorial programme. This is a timetabled element of your course, and is designed to provide individual support to help you achieve your learning goals. At Induction you will be allocated a personal tutor who is the key person responsible for ensuring that support is available. In your timetabled session you will receive a mix of one to one, as well as group sessions.

At your first tutorial session you will be given a timetable of the tutorial and enrichment programme.

Personal Tutoring

What are the fundamental aims of personal tutoring?

The fundamental aims of tutoring for the learner are: Improving self awareness Increasing self esteem, confidence and personal growth Increasing and sustaining motivation Promoting a commitment to change where change is needed Improving performance

The process needs to: Encourage personal reflection to clarify where and how progress has been made

and where and how progress needs to be made Recognise and celebrate achievements to stimulate personal confidence and growth Promote high expectations that are challenging but not overwhelming Provide support and encouragement without removing responsibility Help resolve conflicting priorities where change is needed Help to set goals and targets

The college is committed to this process. For these reasons all academic staff will be allocated specific personal tutor responsibilities and will be given training in being a personal tutor.

Responsibilities of Personal Tutors

Personal tutors have responsibility for the individual educational support of their tutees and their personal development. They play a key role in optimising achievement and in improving retention and achievement.

All students are allocated personal tutors who are responsible for providing the support necessary for them to achieve their full potential. In some instances the personal tutor will also be the course tutor or course team leader. Students are told that their tutor is their first point of contact if they have any problems or questions

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relating to their life at college and are reminded that if they experience any difficulties, to talk it over with their tutor as early as possible before it becomes a problem.

The responsibilities of tutors are listed below together with guidelines on implementation

All students are interviewed for all courses by members of course teams or subject tutors when the additional support assessment form is completed. The giving and receiving of this guidance is signed off on the learning agreement at the point of enrolment. The aim of the pre-entry advice and guidance is to ensure that the student is on the right course, has appropriate information and learning support has been identified and planned for.

Learning support should be arranged following identification of needs through the interview or induction process, or initial screening at induction or through discussion in tutorial. Referral for support should be made to the Essential Skills Centre or to the named member of staff in the Learning Support Service. .

The first individual tutorial should record discussion of student’s long term aims and log any additional action required to reach them. The student Individual Learning Plan provides the framework for logging future tutorial discussions. The first stage of targeting setting should occur at the first tutorial. These are standard and will be reviewed at the end of the induction period of 6 weeks. At subsequent tutorials specific targets should be set for achievement.

Tutorial PSE Programme

The tutorial PSE Programme is designed to give you the opportunity to develop a range of skills that will support both your personal and professional development.

Each talk will be researched, prepared and presented by the class. You as a class will decide the most appropriate methods of research for the subject. You may decide to video some Vox Pops on the subject, or produce an on-line questionnaire. You may give different tasks to different groups or as a class work on the whole talk together. You will decide this in the week prior to the talk, and your decision will be based on the subject matter. Your presentation will also be decided by the class, and the suitability for the subject matter. You may feel that a Debate is the best method, or around the table talk. Again it is for you to decide based on what is most suited to the subject matter i.e. a subject such as bullying may suit a presentation of Vox Pop videos followed by an open discussion, whereas Taboos, may be better suited to group work, with each group research all aspects of one particular taboo. This presentation you will keep, and you will start to build your PSE folder. The work you produce for these presentations, will also further support your Communication work, and your Functional Skills English. This folder will show your development as a researcher and a public speaker for you to use at University or Job interviews.

As the PSE is your time to use to develop those new skills, if there is a subject you feel particularly strongly about, you can of course ask the class if perhaps you could give a talk on that subject, or have the class research and present their views on it. Just present your thoughts to the class, and they will discuss the suitability of the subject for a PSE session.

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Subjects for possible discussion (all subjects to be chosen and researched by students)

STD’s Drugs Alcohol Health Eating Body Image Relationships Citizenship Political expectations Travel Money matters Racism Sexism Bullying Religion Media – moral panics Censorship Youth Sport Police and the Law Consumerism Broken Britain Education Society

ENRICHMENT PROGRAMME

Each year, in the first term, the level 1 and 2 students have a day trip to London ‘Harry Potter Experience’. The details will be passed to you during Welcome Week. We also have during the course of the year numerous guest speakers. Your personal tutor will inform you of the dates and times for these at your Tutorial. The College’s Student Union is also very active in organising a variety of activities. These range from concert visits to sailing holidays. All details for these trips are pasted on the notice boards around College.

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9 LEARNER ENTITLEMENT AND RESPONSIBILITY

As a student at Canterbury College you are entitled to be aware of what the college and the department expect from you. This is clearly detailed in the college diary, but we have detailed below the key areas of Learner ResponsibilitiesPunctuality Your college day starts at 9am. If you are 5 minutes late you will be reported and the situation discussed with your Personnel Tutor.

AttendanceYou attend college 3 days a week for four sessions a day.

Notifying AbsenceVery few reasons for absences are acceptable. This will be discussed in more detail in Induction. But if you have just one absence then you will be reported and the situation discussed with your Personnel Tutor

Meeting DeadlinesYou will be informed via a variety of sources when your work is due to be handed in. Your unit sheets have the date, there are deadline calendars on the wall of every classroom, that weeks deadline will be highlighted, it will be detailed in your lecture and in your tutorial. You will have absolutely no reason for not being aware of when the work is due. If you miss a deadline then you will be reported and the situation discussed with your Personnel Tutor. The deadline for a subject is always at the end of the last lesson for that subject in the deadline week.

Acceptable and Non-discriminatory BehaviourAs detailed in your Induction Talk, you are not in school anymore, you are not even students you are Media Trainees. You have chosen to come to college and start out on your adult career. Therefore we expect you to behave accordingly. Any form of bullying, discriminatory behaviour is totally unacceptable. Treat others as you would wish to be treated. You may not have meant to cause offence, but if the effect of what you said was upsetting – then it is unacceptable behaviour.

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10 WORK EXPERIENCE DETAILS

Work experience is a part of your study programme. Each one of you is expected to

complete 36 hours of work experience by the end of academic year. Work experience

hours can be made up from the range of placements and activities arranged by yourself

or media team.

You could be looking at producing music videos, event videos, multi-media videos etc. It

could be that your work shadows someone, watching them edit, construct a set or liaise

with clients. There will be internal opportunities for your hours, from guest speakers to

enrichment activities.

Once you have obtained your work experience placement, you must obtain written

confirmation from the company, on headed company paper, detailing where you are

going, when you are going, and who is responsible for you during your time there. Your

Personal Tutor must receive this letter before your placement starts.

You will have a timetabled hour a week for work experience. In this session you will log in your blog and on E – tracker what you have done that week to find work experience, and of course, any work experience that you have done.

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11 COMMUNICATION CHANNELS

Read the Notice Boards in the Department every day. Any important announcements

concerning your course will be posted. Your weekly timetables will be pinned up as well

as your assessment calendars. We therefore do not expect you to forget when

deadlines are.

In the Media Department, we expect 100% commitment. If you are ill, you must ring the

Media Department and leave a message on: 01227 811341/812049/812050.

Ideally you should email us your reasons for absences:-

Level 1and 2 in Creative Media production a.kopric@canterburycollege.ac.uk d.turner@canterburycollege.ac.uk

We expect you to do this because we aim to equip you with all the skills you will need to

gain employment in the very competitive, demanding and professional media industries.

Acquiring personal and social skills, such as acting responsibly, are just as important as

acquiring practical skills. For example, an edition of a newspaper or a TV News Bulletin

would just not be produced if editors or directors did not have sufficient time to find

replacements for any absent workers.

This requirement is just one aspect of the Personal Tutorial system we operate here.

The aims and workings of this system will be briefly outlined during Induction Week, and

explained more fully by your Personal Tutor.

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12 HEALTH AND SAFETY

The College has a duty in law to ensure that you are safe but you also have a legal responsibility to abide by the College Health and Safety regulations. The Health and Safety Policy of the College requires that students:

take reasonable care of their own health and safety and that of others who may be affected by their acts and omissions

familiarize themselves with and observe Colle7ge rules work in accordance with any instruction and training that they may have received co-operate with College authorities to enable those authorities to carry out their

obligations in respect of health and safety on discovering a dangerous situation, report it without delay to a member of staff provide as necessary and use any personal protective equipment specified for a

course of study.

There are student safety representatives on the College Health and Safety Committee.

Fire Alarms: Regular fire drills take place during the year. When the continuous fire alarm rings in your building, you should leave the building immediately by the nearest exit and assemble at your nominated Muster Points with your tutors. If you hear the alarm in another block, wait until it rings in your building before you take action. Intermittent ringing of the fire bells is a signal to evacuate the building, and in this case, you should take your bags and belongings with you.

First Aid: Any accident which occurs within the College grounds should be reported to the lecturer in charge. There is always a First Aider on duty who can be contacted via Reception. If, as a result of any accident sustained at College, a student is off for more than 3 days, they must report it to the College's Health and Safety Adviser.

Smoking: The College is a no smoking environment. You may only smoke in the designated smoking area.

Security: It is College policy that all students should have their Student Identity Card with them at all times as they may be asked to produce it. It also acts as your library card and you will need it for exams. If you lose your Student Card, you will need to complete an Application for Identity Card Renewal Form which is available from Student Services and you will need to obtain your tutor’s signature. There is an admin fee of £5 which will be waived if you believe your card has been stolen and have a crime number.

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13 SELF DIRECTED LEARNING

You will notice from your year calendars that you have three weeks called Self-directed Study Weeks. During these weeks you will be set work to do which you can complete in

your own time. You can also use this time to catch up on any outstanding work, and to

work on any other non-assessed projects you wish to, (our equipment and resources

should be available at these times if you book them in advance).

Throughout the rest of the year, you will need to devote a varying amount of time to

working on projects and assignments outside your classroom times. We encourage you

to plan your work schedule so that you meet all deadlines, and if that means that you

come in on your “days off,” or have to work late - then you should learn to expect to do

that if you wish to gain employment in the media industries. In the latter, working hours

are generally dictated by what work needs to be in by when, and not by the clock.

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14 EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

It is the policy of Canterbury College that:1 Equality of opportunity will be offered to all members of the College community

regardless of race, gender, age, culture, sexual orientation, disability or background.

2 No-one will be denied opportunity by any form of direct or indirect discrimination on grounds of race, gender, age, culture, sexual orientation, disability or background.

3 Access to and participation in education will be actively promoted.

4 The curriculum will develop and support the principal of equality of opportunity.

5 Marketing, publicity and public relations will take account of and promote good practice in equal opportunities.

6 The selection, recruitment and promotion of staff will be in accordance with equal opportunities legislation and good practice.

7 Staff development will support and facilitate good practice in equal opportunities.

8 All forms of harassment are unacceptable and will be the subject of disciplinary action.

9 Good practice in equal opportunities will be promoted and disseminated with the community.

10 All aspects of equal opportunities will be monitored reviewed and evaluated in accordance with the College Total Quality Management system.

11 Equal opportunities will be co-ordinated across the College in all its activities and locations

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15 Academic Performance Review

STUDENT ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE REVIEW PROCEDURE  

GUIDANCE NOTES

A When to invoke the Student Academic Performance Review procedure

1 The College is committed to providing an inclusive learning environment which supports students in achieving their learning aims.

2 The Student Academic Performance Review (APR) Procedure is to be invoked where a student’s academic performance is not to the level required to succeed in achieving his/her qualification aim.

3 It is designed to be supportive of the individual, putting in place a structured set of stages to help the student improve.

4 Each stage takes the review procedure up a notch to recognise the increasing seriousness of the situation if there is continued lack of improvement.

5 Each stage of the Academic Performance Review Procedure requires an agreed action plan to be drawn up which will detail the support the College will provide, the action that the student needs to take to improve and details of how this will be reviewed. It may be deemed necessary that some form of sanctions might help the student structure his/her time and these will be included in the Action Plan which is included in the documentation section.

6 The final stages of the Procedure are designed to ensure that students do not stay enrolled on a course where their academic performance is not improving to the level required to achieve. By these stages the student should have been advised of other opportunities they can transfer to and been offered careers guidance. The final hearing with the F.E. Director provides the College with the recourse to dismiss the student from a course if they have not voluntarily taken advice and withdrawn or transferred. At this stage, such dismissal will always be accompanied by an offer to arrange a careers guidance interview.

7 At all times during the procedures, student may be accompanied by a friend, parent or guardian, employer or representative of the Students’ Union.

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B Examples of Behaviour which could fall under the Student Academic Performance Review Procedure

1 These examples are designed to provide an indication of the sorts of behaviour that might be covered under the Student Academic Performance Review Procedure and they are given for illustrative purposes and should not be taken as definitive.

Achieving levels of assessment which will lead to failure in their qualification aims Not taking up opportunities for support with their learning Poor attendance and punctuality Handing work in late Lack of concentration on the task in hand in class

C Examples of Support and Sanctions which could be utilised under the Student Academic Performance Review Procedure

1 These examples are designed to provide an indication of the sorts of sanctions and support that might be covered under the Student Academic Performance Review Procedure and they are given for illustrative purposes and should not be taken as definitive.

Support

Arranging numeracy, literacy and/or study skills support Arranging for the student to have a mentor Arranging extra tutorial sessions Arranging for referral for personal support in College or to an external agency

Sanctions

Having a “Red Card” signed for the student by each of the teaching staff Having the student sign in to the Divisional Office at the start and end of each

day Students having to work over Self Directed Study Week.

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THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE REVIEW PROCEDURE- UNDERPERFORMANCE

1 The Academic Performance Review Procedure is designed to be supportive and help students to improve, while recognising the increasing seriousness of the situation if there is continued lack of improvement.

2 Each stage of the Academic Performance Review Procedure requires an agreed action plan to be drawn up which will detail the support the College will provide, the action that the student needs to take to improve and details of how this will be reviewed.

3 At all times during the procedure, students may be accompanied by a friend, parent or guardian, employer or representative of the Students’ Union.

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16 Misconduct Procedures

Definition of Misconduct

1. Misconduct is defined as behaviour by a student which contravenes the College rules and responsibilities laid down in the Student Diary.

2. It is behaviour which actually or potentially impacts harmfully on the student him/herself, other students, staff, other people’s or the College’s property.

3. The Misconduct Procedure provides for students being given warnings which become increasingly serious if there is no improvement in behaviour.

4. Warnings at each stage are accompanied by an agreed action plan for improvement and may also involve sanctions where appropriate.

5. The Misconduct Procedure is designed to provide the opportunity for students to recognise the error of their ways and be supported to improve.

6. The Misconduct Procedure involves formal warnings which if unheeded result in a Hearing with the Head of Faculty which might result in permanent exclusion.

Examples of behaviour which could fall under the Misconduct Procedure

These examples are designed to provide an indication of the sorts of behaviour that might fall under the Misconduct Procedure and they are given for illustrative purposes and should not be taken to be definitive.

• Persistent non attendance and lateness

• Refusal to complete required coursework • Failure to notify reason for absence

• Failure to follow laid down systems or procedures • Use of insulting or obscene language

• Unruly behaviour in class • Cheating and plagiarism

• Abuse of the IT regulations including use of chat programmes on the Internet • Lack of care and attention under Health and Safety guidelines

• Showing disregard for/damaging the property of other students or staff • Showing disregard for/damaging College property including graffiti

• Refusal to follow reasonable College regulations such as about food and drink in the LRC and classrooms, use in class of mobile phones, personal stereos, etc

• Smoking within College buildings • Causing distraction in class

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Examples of Agreed Behaviour, Sanctions and Support in the Misconduct Procedure

1 Examples of agreed behaviour might be:

• That the student will attend all classes without being late

• The student will hand in work by the required date • The student will not use any language that might cause offence

• The student will attend agreed workshops providing learning support

2 Sanctions may be applied to provide evidence of compliance of the Action Plan. these might include, for example:

• Having a ‘Red Card’ signed for the student by each of their teaching staff

• Having the student sign in to the Divisional Office at the start and end of each day

3 Support to be arranged by the college to underpin the agreed Action Plan might include, for example:

• Providing access to additional study skills sessions

• Arranging access to numeracy and/or literacy workshop sessions • Providing a ‘mentor’

• Arranging daily/weekly tutorial sessions to address specific issues

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