MITC
- Media Industry Technologist Certification
MITC Glossary
SMPTE - Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
SMPTE has the status of being the de facto industry body for people
involved in media industry work/professions in Australia. The Australia
Section of SMPTE is also the organisation that is responsible for
proposing and creating the MITC process.
Industry
The group of employers, Australian and international, that constitute
the media industry in Australia.
Industry Skills Councils
These are the organisations responsible for taking competency and
job-role input from industry and creating training packages and
other documentation that describes what the industry wants delivered
in the way of education.
RTO
These are Registered Training Organisations that deliver approved
training courses.
New Entrant
This is a person coming to the industry for the first time, with
an expectation that they could be educated in a particular vocation
(whether via University, Tech college, correspondence, etc).
Entry criteria / RPL
Entry to any kind of education usually requires meeting a set of
entry criteria or gaining Recognition for Prior Learning (RPL) that
is commensurate with the intended course.
Existing Industry Participant
The industry is currently made up of numerous people who have been
in the industry for many years. Typically, since the end of the
BOCP (Broadcast Operator’s Certificate of Proficiency) and
TOCP (Television Operator’s Certificate of Proficiency) system
in the late 1980s, such people have not been rated/tested under
a unifying common standard for today’s industry which means
employees and colleagues have little objective, independent information
for evaluating industry people.
Integration of Qualification and Recognition: prior learning;
competencies
The circle that integrates the Qualification and Recognition elements,
recognises that new or experienced people have achieved the correct
result – the appropriate level of understanding. The combination
becomes the input to the Certification Prerequisites.
Project Steering
SMPTE Australia Section, as the overall owner of the certification
initiative, established a Steering Committee that brought together
Industry, Education and SMPTE to provide input into the Education
and Certification roles.
Certification Body
This is the body that owns the actual certification process and
the Examination Board.
Certification Prerequisites
This process identifies what a candidate seeking certification needs
to do (including paperwork and payment of fees) in order to enter
the assessment process.
Measurement Process
The measurement process will be via formal assessment which verifies
that the prerequisites were correct and that the applicant can be
positioned at their requested level.
A secondary, limited-time, process for grandfathering
(click to see) will allow existing industry participants, who
have BOCP or TOCP, correct prerequisites for MITC Level 1 or MITC
Level 2, and an acceptable level of experience, to be certified
at Level 2 without sitting the examination. A grandfathered certification
will be issued for three years (compared to five years for assessed
certification), and will need to be renewed via the standard recertification
process at the end of the initial period.
Specialist Trainers
This is the pool of certified people who are capable of expounding
their acquired expertise back to the beginning of the process.
Certification Conferred
Once the assessment has been successfully completed, the relevant
certification is conferred on the candidates.
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