VCSE Creative and Media Production, and Technology
VCSE Creative and Media Production, and Technology asks learners to analyse existing media products, write a proposal that explains their creative choices, evaluate ideas against a brief, write scripts and copy in a suitable style and tone, keep a production journal and act on focus group and peer feedback, while the Unit 1 sector test needs precise subject vocabulary in objective and short answer questions rather than extended writing. Numeracy is light and practical: planning a production budget and schedule, reading audience data and viewing figures, collecting feedback through surveys, and working with layout measurements and image resolution, with no calculations named for the sector test. The single biggest thing Key Stage 3 should build is writing that explains and justifies a creative choice for a named audience and purpose.
- Awarding body
- WJEC
- Level
- Level 1 and Level 2
- First taught
- September 2027
- Amount of literacy work
- Medium
- Amount of numeracy work
- Low
- Specification
- Open the specification
- Step before
- Foundation Creative and Media Production, and Technology, Entry Level and Level 1
How this qualification is assessed
- Unit 1: Introduction to the creative and media production, and technology industries: External assessment (sector test) 1 hour, 50 marks, 20%, set and marked by WJEC, paper-based or on-screen
- Unit 2: Pre-production tools, processes and skills: External non-examination assessment 14 hours, 58 marks, 20%, set and marked by WJEC; a set client brief and five tasks, creating pre-production materials for one media product chosen from eleven
- Unit 3: Production and post-production tools, processes and skills: Non-examination assessment, recommended time of 32 hours, 90 marks, 60%, set by WJEC, marked by the centre and moderated by WJEC; a set production brief and three tasks, producing a multi-modal promotional campaign for one event chosen from three
Skills that use Collecting data
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Collecting feedback data with surveys and focus groups
Learners use surveys, focus groups and other feedback on their work in progress to identify areas for refinement in Unit 3, and use focus group feedback in Unit 2. The specification names surveys but does not ask for statistical analysis of the results.
Numeracy: Collecting data, Strategic competence
Getting pupils ready
- Year 7
- Pupils collect class votes on three logo designs in a tally chart and say which design won and by how much.
- Year 8
- Pupils write a five-question survey with rating scales about a draft advert and record the answers in a table.
- Year 9
- Pupils design a short Microsoft Forms survey with closed and open questions, collect responses from another class, and summarise the numbers and comments before deciding what to change.
Show the specification wording and the LNF statements
Where it is in the specification: Unit 3, Section 3.1.2, page 35; Unit 2, Section 2.3.1, page 30
“use feedback on their work in progress to identify areas for refinement”
Progression step 3
I can collect relevant data to answer posed questions.
I can identify, measure or obtain required information to complete the task.
Progression step 4
I can collect own data for a survey, e.g. through designing a questionnaire.
I can collect both quantitative and qualitative data.
Progression step 5
I can collect data in a suitable way according to my hypothesis.
Good to know
- No marks for spelling, punctuation and grammar are stated. The assessment objectives cover knowledge, application, evaluation and practical skills, with AO3 "Interpret and evaluate outcomes of own and/or others work to explore and/or refine creative ideas or media products" worth 21% (Section 3.1, page 41).
- The sector test has no extended writing: Section A uses "multiple choice, multiple response, fill-in-the-blank, drag-and-drop, and hot spot questions" and Section B "includes short answer questions some of which could be based on short industry scenarios" (Section 3.2, page 42).
- Calculator use is not stated in the specification; "The Assessment Pack will include all detailed information relating to assessment." (Section 3, page 41).
- Written NEA work may be handwritten: Unit 2 "must be submitted digitally, either as scanned handwritten responses or completed digitally." (Section 3.2, page 42), and the same applies to Unit 3 evidence (page 43).
- Teachers "must not provide feedback on the evidence being produced" (Section 3.3, page 43), so feedback during NEA must come from focus groups, peers and audiences rather than the teacher.
- Appendix A maps all four literacy strands to "All sections" of every unit (page 49) and numeracy to many sections (page 50), but the only number work the content itself names is budgeting, scheduling, viewing figures and survey feedback.
Links with other qualifications
Writing for an audience and purpose overlaps with English Language and Literature, and analysing media products overlaps with GCSE Digital Media and Film. Budgeting and scheduling overlap with Business and with Mathematics and Numeracy.
Source: WJEC Level 1/Level 2 VCSE Creative and Media Production, and Technology specification, approved by Qualifications Wales, teaching from September 2027, for award from 2029 (© WJEC CBAC Ltd 2026).