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Skills for Life: Digital Film and Media

Digital film and media is a Skills for Life unit in which learners plan, shoot and edit a short film of their own, from a simple image sequence with a title at Entry 1 to a researched, storyboarded film of three to four minutes at Level 2. It is one 20 hour unit that learners combine with others into a Pearson Skills for Life Award, Certificate or Diploma, achieved at one level from Entry 1 to Level 2. Literacy sits in writing a storyline, storyboard or shot list, keeping a process log, researching a topic at Level 2 and writing titles and narration. Numeracy is light: fitting the film to a set running time and counting images or shots.

Awarding body
Pearson
Level
Entry Level 1 to Level 2
Guided learning hours
20
First taught
September 2027
Amount of literacy work
Medium
Amount of numeracy work
Low
Specification
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How this unit is assessed
  • Entry Level (Entry 1, Entry 2, Entry 3): One assessment criterion at each of Entry 1, Entry 2 and Entry 3: demonstrate digital media skills and techniques to make a short film on a topic set by the teacher, from 8 to 10 of the learner's own images at Entry 1 to 18 to 20 images with a storyline, audio track and effects at Entry 3, with a simple process log. Evidence is internally assessed by the centre, with Pearson standards verification. Graded Pass or Fail. 20 guided learning hours.
  • Level 1 and Level 2: One assessment criterion at each of Level 1 and Level 2: develop digital media skills and techniques (and at Level 2 digital media conventions) to produce a short film on a chosen subject, one to two minutes from a storyboard or shot list at Level 1, and three to four minutes with more than 10 of the learner's own shots, researched and planned, at Level 2, with a process log. Evidence is internally assessed by the centre, with Pearson standards verification. Graded Pass or Fail. 20 guided learning hours.

Skills that use Vocabulary, spelling, grammar

  1. Writing titles and narration

    Assessed: In coursework (non-examination assessment, NEA)

    Every film needs a title in text, and from Entry 2 an audio track that can be narration or music. Learners who choose narration write and speak a clear voiceover for their audience. The title is required; narration is one option for the audio.

    Literacy: Clarity and vocabulary, Vocabulary, spelling, grammar

    Getting pupils ready

    Year 7
    Pupils write three possible titles for a short film and choose the one that best tells the audience what it is about.
    Year 8
    Pupils write and record a 30 second voiceover for a slideshow, rehearsing to speak clearly and at a steady pace.
    Year 9
    Pupils script a narration for a two minute film, adapting the vocabulary and tone for a younger audience, and record it.
    Show the specification wording and the LNF statements

    Where it is in the specification: Unit SfL 6, Essential information for assessment decisions, Entry 1 to Level 1, page 35, Level 2, page 36

    “The film should include a title in text and audio, which can be narration and/or music”
    Progression step 3

    • I can speak clearly, recognising the appropriate language for different audiences and purposes, and varying my expression, vocabulary, tone and gestures to engage the audience.

    • I can use varied, appropriate and precise vocabulary including area of learning and experience/discipline-specific words for different purposes.

    Progression step 4

    • I can speak clearly, selecting and adapting my language appropriately for a range of audiences and purposes, conveying meaning effectively to the audience.

Good to know

Links with other qualifications

The planning, research and log writing link with GCSE English Language and Literature and with GCSE Digital Media and Film, which also asks for written planning and evaluation of productions. The WJEC VCSE and Foundation in Creative and Media Production, and Technology use the same storyboard and production log skills. The WJEC Digital film and media unit is also 20 hours but asks learners to analyse how media products communicate messages, present ideas and evaluate their product using feedback, so it carries more reading, speaking and evaluative writing; the Pearson unit's literacy is mainly planning documents and a process log.

Source: Pearson Entry Level 1 to Level 2 Skills for Life Award, Certificate and Diploma Qualifications Specification, Issue 1, August 2026, Unit SfL 6: Digital film and media.