National Certificate: Live Event Technical Production NQF Level 4

National Certificate: Live Event Technical Production NQF Level 4

The National Certificate in Live Event Technical Production (NQF Level 4) is an entry-level qualification to the live event industry. This industry includes but is not limited to:

• Performing Arts such as dance, musicals, opera, revue, cabaret, variety, magicians, mime, poetry, etc.
• Industrial, Children’s, Youth, Educational, Street, Community, Development etc. theatre
• Live Music
• Circus performances
• Drama in education
• Stand-up comedy
• Pyrotechnics / fireworks
• Laser shows
• Launches / conferences / promotions / award ceremonies and other eventsThis qualification will allow entry into ONE of the following areas of application:
• Stage (Setting and Structures)
• Audio/Visual (Lighting, Sound and Video)
• Styling (Costumes, Makeup, Properties and D�cor)
• Special Effects (Pyrotechnics, Lasers, Water and Fire)Qualifying learners are capable of:
• Investigating and monitoring the financial aspects of personal, business and national issues
• Critically interrogating and effectively communicating findings on life-related problems.
• Measuring, estimating and calculating physical quantities and exploring, critiquing and proving geometrical relationships in two and three dimensional space in the life and workplace
• Engaging in sustained oral communication
• Evaluating spoken texts
• Reading, analysing and responding to a variety of texts
• Writing for a wide range of contexts
• Using language and communication in occupational learning programmes
• Using computers as an end user
• Packing and unpacking equipment, material and tools for live events
• Loading-in and loading-out equipment, material and tools for live events
• Setting-up and striking equipment, material and tools for live events
• Assembling and disassembling equipment, material and tools for live events
• Operating equipment, material and tools for live events
• Co-ordinating the use of equipment, material and tools for live events
• Rendering basic first aid
• Safely extinguishing fires
• Managing stressQualifying learners will also elect to attain competencies from the following:
• Effectively planning business
• Operating a legal new venture
• Marketing for a new venture
• Negotiating in business
• Managing finances for a new venture

The qualification is generic across these areas of application, to ensure equivalence within the technical production services industry.