 All right, everybody. So welcome to today's virtual open day for the student takeover. So first off, let me introduce myself. My name is Anna. And I'm from the creative media production program on the second year right now. So I've been at PCU a couple of years now so I'm starting to know exactly what it stands for and what it is. And I'd like to introduce also a Demi. I'll let you say something about yourself. Hi, everyone. Nice to see you all here. Yeah, I'm student graphic design. I'm also on my second year. So I'm finishing it. And yeah, maybe you can tell us more about the show. Hi, my name is Shamila. I study international finance and business accounting. I know this is my first year at Park City University and I'm also the business representative on the student council. So now back to you, Anna. All right, we did that very newscast like I like it. Okay, so let me get started so I'm going to be speaking a bit about the program so about my program specifically so creative media production ignore the hamsters battling in the background sometimes. I'm going to share my screen now to show you guys kind of just a graphic to go along with some of the points I'm going to be making. All right, so I'm the program that I'm in CMP creative media production is basically this catch all for all things production you learn a kind of mixture of everything so you really don't learn just video production or just film production. You learn production in terms of different styles and different platforms so even for a podcast or audio work, or just for media campaigns. It's kind of a general it generally covers a lot of things you learn how to use a camera, you learn how to write like for scripts and stuff like that so we started off with that in my first year. You also learn editing so you also learn to edit your own project so that you're able to produce a k film them, or organize the filming of them, and then also edit them at the end, and then you also learn the strategies for distribution and whatnot. There's a bunch of great professors that I would really have to say that for me these professors have been kind of the nicest professors I've ever had in the way that when you're going through something or you're struggling with something they're really there to help you. Like, regardless of what the situation is they really just are there to help you along with your way and your learning. The first for creative media production is project based so typically at the end of every semester we have some kind of project that we should have done. So, first semester it was an experimental visual, a small experimental video. Our second event in the first year was making a little production of our own so we got to choose a topic and make a make a little 10 minute documentary. So just to kind of give you an idea of what I'm talking about I'm going to show you my good friend Franklin's documentary which he made about his time here as an expat during coronavirus and the quarantines as a new student in Prague. Can I say that with you now? One second. That's unfortunately all I'm going to have time to show you but just to give you an idea of what it was about as a whole. He made this film after his family was separated from him in Nicaragua and he was here and basically to And a member of his family had passed away. And so he made this film dedicated to kind of expressing that and it like the program's very allowing to you to work even in your own languages as long as you providing which subtitles for the professors to be able to like judge it actually and these kinds of things but I'll go back to other visual I have. So that's the primary thing it's a small class everyone in my class for example we've kind of formed a bond. We call ourselves the CMP discombobulators after a professor once called Franklin, the guy who made the video before discombobulated gentlemen. And we just kind of formed a little community and it's very full of inclusion, despite our diversities in our backgrounds and the cultures we work from. We all just try to help each other out and like, whenever someone asks for help from our group we we all try to come together and provide them with either resources or new ideas on how to solve these things. So that's what I'd say right now about that. And so on with that I'm going to pass it over to Anna Deming. So, as I already mentioned, I am student of graphic design school. So basically we have different directions in university if you're interested more in art you can go and study art more specifically but I personally chose studying as a graphic design So, I can show you like my website that I have here. So I personally started studying last year, in February, I have experienced both online and offline studying. I personally liked studying in person more. But anyway, when you studying graphic design, especially when you have so many projects going on from different areas of design, you don't really have time to think about it like so you just you are encouraged to do your project. So, in my class there are five more students and I think it's like a really nice number of people to study with so basically feels like you are studying almost individually but at the same time you can share your experience and take this experience from other students which are coming from different countries. I really like the thing about my program. And so I can show you some stuff that I have here. So these are some of the works that I have done so far. Not all of them are here in my portfolio but still. And what is interesting about my program personally I think is that you can have an experience in working with real clients. For example, this one was made for coffee roastry which is based in Prague. And we had this kind of talk with the client every week and we had to gather some feedback from a person who is giving us this assignment. And also I put there some personal projects as well. These are not part of the program but because of the thing that our lecturers are giving us opportunity to develop outside of the college as well. I really liked to do some kind of branding design. This is basically connected to my home country and these are the national ornaments. So what is also interesting is that you can try different areas of design as I already told you. So basically for example this one is an example of an agency that we build up with our classmates. And here in this agency, the graphic design agency, we have different areas like web design, motion design, editorial, branding and identity, illustration and photography. So these are the areas that you can study on this program. And also go to work here. You can see so many different examples. For example, some people are doing illustrations. Some of them are doing 3Ds and I think this is the coolest thing in this program is that you can try different kind of medias. And you can develop in the direction that you really like. Yeah, maybe in case you have more questions I could answer them. Otherwise, I think that's it from me. I can maybe pass it to Shanela. Okay, thank you so much. So you know a little bit about myself. I'm Shanela. And when I grow up and I graduate from Brexit University, I want to become a certified tax advisor. But with the help of PCU the process of actually doing my childhood accounting exams will become much easier. At the moment we have four classes. We have issues in the contemporary business market, contemporary marketing practices, financial accounting and reporting, then also study in the communications class. Now what's the nice thing about our study and communications class is that, you know, when you first start up going to university, doing a bibliography and going with the Harvard Referencing Dialogue can be quite a challenge. Luckily we have a specific teacher who will help us with that to actually help us to be able to write better proposals and also just perform better in our classes. Recently we did for our issues in the contemporary business market we worked with a local chick glamping company. And they gave them advice on, you know, how if they want to expand to a different country that how they should do, how they should expand. The second project we did for contemporary marketing practices was working with a local restaurant and identifying types of marketing, you know, how they affect, you know, how the check market necessarily also affects them. So the financial accounting and reporting we did a paper on the international financial reporting standards between Hong Kong and the Czech Republic. We advise to hypothetical companies on necessarily, you know, specifics from our course. What I really like about this is the fact that is a very hands on approach, you know, you get to deal with real life situations you're not necessarily just given a book and said here you have to learn a whole bunch of different definitions. On top of that it comes with a lot of freedom but that also comes with quite a lot of responsibility, you know, the school is really great at giving you the opportunity to be able to take matters into your own hands and, you know, what you put in your hands and what you think about. On top of that our teachers are also very helpful. They also have a very insightful approach to the work and also to the project as well as communication with students like the communication is constructive and engaging. Another thing that I really enjoy is also the events that I'm able to attend. Like, for example, a couple of months ago there was seminar KPMG and it was really really insightful. One of the students in the class is a roughly 20 but I think something to be noted is that the international financial and business accounting students are actually mixed in with the international management students. It's only in the third year when we go into our specific specializations that we will necessarily split, but up until that point we're going to be together. So there are around about 20 students in our class at the moment. With all of these projects in mind, you have to do quite a lot of research and you have to be able to think particularly, but what's nice about Prague City University is we have an online library from T side university as well as one in the Czech Republic and we also have a physical library. That's pretty much all I have to say about, you know, the international finance and business accounting course, but if there are any questions I'll be more than happy to answer some of them later. I think I'll take it back to Anna. Yeah, I'll jump in right now. So the other library as Jamila mentioned is actually I believe the Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic library so we have access to that as well for any research papers. For media production we mostly have project based work so like the video you saw, and then occasionally like a small essay on theory or just a report like a reflection of what the process and did and how it helped you. It's very like it's heavily project based. And there's not that much like work outside of the classes, well there is quite a bit of work outside of the classes but like it's in a way that you're you're making you know something you created. So it's also taking pleasure in the process of creating something. So, yeah. So otherwise, I believe we are probably going to be ready for questions at this point. There's a lot of people here so I think you already answered this one but so you want to be an accountant right when you're done. So, Demi what do what do you want to do once, like what do you want to do once you graduate from PCU. Just to clarify a certified tax advisor. Tax. Yes. Certified tax advisor with the CEO. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry, I'm back. No, it's completely fine. It's just maybe if someone in the audience, you know, missed it. Just like to specify it. Yes. Go ahead. Oh, yeah, so I really plan to become a branding and identity designer mostly. Now as we are finishing our second year we are on this stage when we are like really working with real client. And it's really exciting part for me, because I always thought that yeah, I am a student and now I can try to experience as much as much as I can. But now we came up with this like part of the period when you have to gather all of your words that you have, and then come to the client and be professional enough to show what you are capable of and what can you do. So, I personally would like to become a branding and identity designer but a cool thing about graphic design, I think is that you can always go to another area of graphic design because while you are studying. You can always study only branding and identity you are studying like editorial motion design, UI UX you can also study half of the coding, not all, not the main part but some specific part of the coding that can be creative coding right creative coding yeah right. So like, I really enjoyed this part. Yeah. Yeah, well, for most of the people that I know from my course their goal is kind of either to go into journalism, which is very easy kind of to do with radio journalism from my course. And then also some have aspirations and film, of course, because it is, we do use cameras and we make those films and then I'm the weirdo that kind of wants to go into game production afterwards. So, for me, I'm seeing that that, given it's an all rounded course it can help you get to whichever production platform you want to go to so that's kind of what I want to do when I grow up, I guess, from PCU when I rise. And how are your classes assessed I don't I think I'm not sure if both. I know I know I mentioned mine. How are how is the graphic design course assessed. I think it's the same as yours, like we are graded per project we have a final project at the end of the every semester but usually like in one semester we have four classes. These four classes are divided into two. So basically, overall we have six or five projects for one semester, and we are graded as per one project, which is from. How do you like the studios for the art and design course. Oh yeah actually I forgot to mention about it thank you so we have two campuses of our university and like both of them are quite big and they are. They have different equipment for you to use we can use printer we can use different like cameras if we need it, especially I think for your course you're usually like. The whole like equipment and resources at Center and accessible to us so a lot of different cameras from Sony's to lighting setups to microphones to black magic camera I think is also in there so just all the all the should be. So we can use this and also we have like special like rooms at the bishops court where we can go, and like if you want to have a drawing live session you can also go there. And like, we've got pretty much things to do. Yeah, I think another thing is like for as I mentioned for graphic design the same can be said about creative media production is that we have like some we have the client based work. So I know a bunch of my peers currently are working for the National Institute for autism here in Czech Republic to create a kind of video for them about the authorial theater that they're doing with a program that they're doing with them, the individuals are working there. And then some are working for a kind of pro more a pro vegetarian and vegan company which is trying to promote less meat consumption and creating a video for them and I personally was at the international documentary film festival to create stuff there so we're also getting opportunities that then is useful just, you know, a good thing to have on your CV and help you when you get out of the university so you're not just looking around like a lost land. And, and Demi would you know anything about the fine art experimental media program as well. Really, but in case if you're interested in that you can contact your student advisor, we can leave a link to send you the email as well, and they can give you more, more information about that here. And I can tell you a little bit from what I know but I know that it's a very. So it's experimental media right so there's just a combination of different things it's a lot of, let's say, exhibition art performance art, they have sculpting drawing illustration painting 3D animation. I'm just a lot of going on there with the possibilities being really endless and I know that it's. It's a very like unique program and I'm actually very fascinated by myself and even though I'm not someone who goes there. I've heard good things about it, and I think that they've made some really cool installations and at the end of the work of their year. They have this kind of large exhibition where people from people get to come by and see their work and appreciate it. So there's just a combination of various media is being used to create art and then combining it and just seeing what, like what the limits of art are and how they can push them. So it's, some of them are even interactive and I believe there's also a segment on performance art specifically. So that's what I do know about the find the fine art experimental media one. And yeah, I believe there are also images of some of the former installations and if you message to admissions they can give you even more details than I can. I hope that helped. Okay, just a moment here. Do you have any more questions I don't think so. Also just to say a couple of things in terms of the curriculum. So I previously lived in Dubai and I grew up, like, I went from IB to British to American to British again to IB again to American. And now back to British. So I've done quite a bit of curriculum jumping in my experience and I just say that I quite appreciate this. It's so called ICA like in class assignment, which are a project based like method of grading because it's, it gives you a lot of feedback and it's with two graders that analyze your project. So two people typically read them. And it gives you a lot more. I guess to me, a better understanding of maybe what was wrong, because you get written feedback, unlike in other curriculums, I would just get. Okay, 77 out of 100 you have a B. I think it's more really number base and then certain levels mean certain things. So I think that the British curriculum for this specific university is quite well made in terms of I enjoy the way it's the school works and the programs work. I think with that we can probably wrap up so I'm glad that everyone when he was here and I'm glad that I got to hear the girls here with me speak and whatnot. And I hope you guys learned something about a potential program or I helped at least you find a contact for someone who can help you further. But thank you everyone for being here. Yeah, thank you for also hosting. It was really nice to be able to participate in the event.