A sixth-form course for 16 to 18 year olds. Aged 19 or over? See Media Courses in Birmingham.
Free BTEC National Extended Diploma in Creative Media Practice in Birmingham. Classes run at BOA Stage And Screen Production Academy, full-time over two years.
The course covers film, TV, radio, podcasting, social media, and virtual production. You'll work across technical and production roles. That means cameras, lighting, sound, editing, SFX, and streaming. You'll work on live industry projects with partners including the BBC. Every year, students produce a full commercial feature film. Your work is recorded in a journal and e-portfolio, assessed against the qualification throughout.
Entry is based on aptitude, not grades. You'll finish with a Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Extended Diploma in Creative Media Practice.
Our Film and TV course prepares young people to progress into the screen industries.
Want to work in TV, film, radio, podcasts, social media, live capture, virtual production? Interested in cameras, lights, sound gear, editing, computers, SFX, streaming decks, vision mixers, smoke machines, automation?
At BOA Stage and Screen Production we place significant emphasis on work-readiness, project based learning and industry collaboration, and our purpose-built curriculum has been designed in collaboration with major UK industry partners to ensure our students are genuinely "set-ready" when they leave us. The Film and TV course at BOA Stage and Screen Production academy is much, much more than the BTEC course alone, it is a passport into the industry.
Students at BOA Stage and Screen will undertake a sequence of live industry projects, working with major partners such as the BBC and Method in Motion, choosing roles, attending relevant workshops and classes, executing their duties, and keeping a journal and e-portfolio as evidence. For example every year our Year 13 students make a full commercial feature film, working with the team from Threewise Entertainment!
The content of the journal and e-portfolio is regularly assessed against the BTEC Level3 Extended Diploma in Creative Media Practice, worth the equivalent of 3 A'levels.
Students will achieve the Foundation Diploma (worth 1.5 A’levels) at the end of their first year of study. They will then have the option to ‘top-up’ their BTEC to an Extended Diploma (worth 3 A’levels) in their second year of study.
This means students leave equipped with the qualifications, credits, experience and professional network they need to progress directly into the industry, or pursue further studies at the very best universities.
Jobs you could do
What you could study next
