Level 4 Professional Diploma in Digital Media Creative Enterprise

This qualification is designed for students who wish to start up their own project or company and wish to explore and extend their creative practice within the creative industries.

It can be used as a starting point for students who have identified a specific project that they wish to work on or to enable them to explore the basis of entrepreneurial activity by developing essential business and management skills in order to identify and respond to business opportunities in the creative sector.

This qualification is suitable for students who have an interest in starting up their own projects or company and wish to explore and extend their creative practice via a full-time or part-time immersive learning experience.

The qualification is also appropriate for students wishing to continue their education through applied learning, by locating that learning within a professional context in which they can work alongside industry experts to gain first-hand industry experience.

This qualification will provide students with an opportunity to cultivate their employability by developing their creative enterprise skills, expanding their industry contact base while developing their start-up projects and professional practice.

The qualification has been developed in collaboration with representatives from industry, universities, further education colleges and employers to ensure it provides students with the skills, knowledge and understanding needed to prepare them for employment, including self-employment and/or support a role in the workplace in the creative industries.

The objectives of this qualification are to give students the opportunity to:

1. Develop and demonstrate enterprise and entrepreneurial skills necessary to the creative industries
2. Develop and define their artistic ambitions and creative ideas
3. Build up their professional practice and independently initiate their creative projects
4. Achieve a nationally recognised Level 4 qualification

• Satisfactory results (Pass/Merit/Distinction) in relevant Level 3 qualifications (BTEC/UAL or A Levels), supported by 5 GCSEs (9-4) including English and Maths
• A creative media/games design portfolio and an interview

Employment in the creative industry setting up your own creative company or progress directly into employment, in roles such as freelancer, account manager, consultant, talent manager, games developer, animator, director or producer within the creative industries.

This qualification will support you to develop a portfolio of work, enabling you to progress to higher education courses or conservatoires.