 So today we're going to be just talking about our time in Prague College, I guess, and then we're going to be answering some questions. Yeah. I'm trying to see it here and it's so weird. You're watching it at the same time. Oh, I found you. I just started to check. All right, so Nicholas. Hi everyone. I'm a business student. I'm doing right now the international business and finance international finance and business accounting. Yeah, at Prague College, I'm doing it part time now. And I just finished my second year so I'm already my last one. You're already on your last one. Yeah, I just started the last semester. So even to you, Adri. Well, hi, I'm Adriana or Adri for short. I'm a graphic design student. I just started my last year. And I'm also working as a freelance designer right now. And that's me. Okay, yeah, my name is Xenia or Casey. I'm studying creative media production and I'm in my second year now just started my third semester. And yeah, I've been in Prague for one year. I'm doing some freelance work sometimes did the internship during the summer. So, yeah. I was thinking that we could probably answer some general questions. What do you think if I if I ask the questions and then we can just answer each of us. Right, so maybe we can go to the first question. Let me open it. And that is a house has standing in Prague made your expectations. Yeah, because for the people who are joining us. Some of the questions were sent to the school's email so we have some questions already but you can send your questions I think in the, in the comments of the Facebook live I believe, and then this thing is kind of like a couple of seconds behind but yeah, go ahead and ask your questions but has Prague met your expectations is that the question. That's it. Yeah. In my case. My story is a little funny because I came to Prague when I was eight just for Easter holidays so I fell in love with the city is I'm originally from Costa Rica so then like, you know it was a completely different thing from one of you was used to. And I was like, oh I would love to live here so when I was looking for universities and I found from college I was like, oh my God, I'm going to get to live there it's so cool. So I, my expectations were really really high. And eventually like in these past two years I feel like it's met all my expectations and more because I didn't expect to for it to be so cheap for me to be able to travel so and like obviously I was excited to meet people but I've met some really awesome people and I've had a lot of opportunities that I feel like I would have not had if I had stayed back in Costa Rica or if I had stayed where I was living in Kenya at the time so I don't think I would have gone the same opportunities. How about you guys. In my case. In my case actually Prague exceeded my expectations in every way possible. And unlike Adri, I had zero expectations expectations of Prague I don't know why. Because like I moved to Prague not because of Prague but because of college because I found it, I loved the program and I was like okay well it's in Prague so I have to go to Prague. And I did not want to go here at the beginning I don't know why. And then I came here with zero expectations. And now I'm absolutely in love with Prague like and I feel like the more time I spent here, the more I love it. And I'm just walking around Prague every single day and I'm like oh my god I'm so happy and grateful to live here. It's like a movie like you walked out and because like because I come from Russia from Moscow. It was like I for some reason I thought that it probably will not be that different from Moscow that you know like mentality of people will be very similar like in general everything will be very similar. It was so different. And I was so surprised when I came here and I was so surprised like how amazing the public transport is, like how nice people are like for me personally, like from my experience, and I'm completely in love with Prague. What about you Nicholas. I did an exchange before I came to Prague College, so I kind of already knew what was I coming for, but I have to say that also I lived in a smaller city in the Czech Republic, not really Prague. But yeah it was really really great. What's interesting about here is that you never really get to know the whole city there's always some hidden gem, like a secret coffee places secret I don't know skater places. There's everything like sometimes I just go to someplace and I say, how do I don't know this place like I've been living here two years and I've never been here how's that possible. That happened to me just recently because I live in Prague 10 so like going to the other progs like Prague seven and prog five is like every once in a while. So one of my school projects right now we're doing a whole magazine on holy show it's a prog seven. And we had to like go there and do the like a tour and then like research to be able to interview people and stuff. And I was like, this part is so cool and I've never been here to all these places. Yeah, so now I'm obsessed with holy show it's enough. And to me personally Prague feels so cozy in a sense that you know like in one year you can really get to know it and feel comfortable here feel like calm. And it feels like you know like you meet so many people and because progress kind of small so like you know when you meet a new person like you have some mutual friends already. It feels like it's one big community, but at the same time there's so many things happening in Prague all the time. And it's just sometimes it's just crazy like you want to go to so many events. And yeah, I love it. Next question. We have various from the chat you guys want to read those. Is there residents on campus for international students. So here's a funny story. My sister, my older sister she was in like a really big campus school so when my family came to drop me off they went to visit the school with me, and we were all like, this is so small. Because the school in itself is very tiny. We have one building with like three floors and there's like the business, the arts and then the fine arts and stuff like that they're divided very weirdly. And then we have another building for like the art studios, but the campus itself is just one building because it's not a campus school practically it's a city school. So you kind of just, you know, travel around and you get the experience of the city more so there aren't no residences in the campus but we do have residences for students. I was actually in one of them called but each and they were really nice like the place was really cool. The building itself was in an area that was very local and very calm compared to other ones and it was more centric than I think the one Casey was in. So I really liked it and the people there are really cool as well. Yeah, I was. Yeah, I was in rooms five is located in Prague five, which is a little bit not very close to the center it's by metro maybe like 20 30 minutes to the center. But the good thing is like the metro was right next to the dorm like four minute walk. So that was a good thing. And another good thing was that like the dorm was in a very quiet like family neighborhood. So it's, you know, like it's super chill super quiet super safe. And they were like, you know, if you big supermarkets around like everything was super close. And there was a huge park right next to the dorm with the lake it like it's so beautiful I used to walk there all the time. And yeah and I lived there from September to April, and then I moved to an apartment but the dorm itself it's very modern, like it's recently renovated. Yeah, like it looks, it looks amazing it looks great. And yeah I was living in a double room I was sharing it with another girl, not from college she wants to. She's from Charles University, or something like this. So, yeah, that was okay. I definitely prefer living in an apartment more, because they have like my own space, but the dorms, the dorms are quite nice. It's nice to be with other students that are most probably in your year because I remember the first day that I was in my dorms I just because you had to share the kitchen with the whole floor and so I went to like, I was super scared I didn't know how to use the kitchen I was like I was right there and there was this group of girls and they're like, Hi, and, and one of them like I think two of them actually eventually were in my class so we the next day we like walk together to school I was like, Okay, cool. Because it's like random people it just fine in the kitchen so yeah, and now we're still friends. I don't actually live in any accommodation in any accommodation, sorry. I was living in an apartment or room for from day one so I wouldn't know. Maybe the next question. The other one says, hi greetings how can I go via admissions to Prague University or college. I guess you can email the admissions admissions at college. You can easily find admissions email there and and they are super helpful I would say that no other admissions has ever like, helped me so so well like, like, then so kudos to Natasha. Hello, the admission team. They are doing a really good job. And shout out to student services as well we love you guys. I don't know what I would do without right and everybody else. Yeah, and there is another question. What do you put in the portfolio for be a ons. Yeah, it if you mean if you mean when you're applying for the program, I guess, if you mean that like for creative media production, I did not have to provide any portfolio. I guess it's different for graphic design. I actually get this question asked on Instagram a lot because a lot of like people message me on Instagram, because they find me through the school I guess, and I've actually helped a couple of people send in their portfolios I look through them and I was like oh you know you could change these and stuff just because I know the people that are viewing the portfolios and I know what they like. But, but yeah so what I would say is just find things that you like to online I just found like inspiration, like graphic design inspiration on Pinterest and then I just copied it to be honest, not gonna lie. That's what I did because I had no real actual experience in graphic design I had done art and like sculptures and like all of these different things but I knew that fine art was something that I didn't want to get into. I just went online and found posters and then I did like a book cover and a website and stuff and they were all like personal projects that I just put in there. So it don't put too much pressure on yourself because obviously they know that you're coming into to learn. But, yeah, just be true to yourself. The girl that I reviewed her portfolio was a really big bebe Rexha, bebe Rexha fan. So most of her artwork was from like bebe Rexha's fan account stuff so that was pretty cool. All right, so are there any any more questions are there in Facebook. Do I need to take an international English exam if I'm doing IDDP English HL. Do you guys have anything to add to that do you guys know what IBDP is. No, no, is it. Okay. I know all the questions but I know what IB is. I did IB, the diploma program, and I took English HL English a HL, and I didn't have to take any English exams. And that's another question that was asked before that maybe you guys could talk about because I didn't have to do an English exam, mostly because English is my native language. No, like my first language. Did you guys have to do English exams. Yes, I had to do TOEFL. I did a TOEFL test there it's an international test so there are many options so that was not the easier but like the one I knew I could take in Bolivia so there I took the TOEFL. It took me some preparation but it was fine I would say. I like I never studied in English before and I come from Russia so I had to take the test as well and I also took TOEFL but you don't have to take TOEFL there is different options like you can take IELTS as well. And I think you can take Cambridge exam so on the on Prague College website there is like a list of exams that you can take. And also I think there is an option to take a test in Prague College directly. Maybe not now because of traveling restrictions, but there was such an opportunity and for TOEFL. Yeah, it just took me like over the summer I was just preparing for it on my own, and then I did it and it was fine. Yeah. And that leads us to another question actually I think I don't have them here but it was how is it to have classes in English. Oh, okay. Yeah, actually, I was a little scared at the beginning because mainly because of the reports and all the essays and so on because I've never really studied in English before. Just like Casey. And so I never really had to write academic papers in English so that was a challenge, but usually in the first semester you get one extra class in which you review all the formats how to write a good academic essays how to reference them, and all of that so I would say from from semester one they prepare you good for that. Yeah. I agree, like, as I said I never studied in English before so I was definitely worried because I come from like a town and family where nobody speaks English. So before coming to Prague I never even had like speaking experience with anyone whatsoever. You're so good. It was like when I came I was the first few days when we had like the welcome week. I was super scared, because it was so new to me I never spoke English in my life before basically and especially with so many people from many different countries. So, the first few days I was a little bit worried but then I got used to it super fast. And like these classes I was also a little bit worried. But all my teachers lectures classmates was so supportive and very helpful so I wasn't scared of making a mistake I knew that you know everyone understands and it's okay. And I don't know it took me maybe like one week of classes to completely get used to speaking English. And then I was, you know, confident and I felt comfortable with writing like academic papers I also was struggling with it a little bit. Because yeah I've never done it before in my life in English like I never wrote essays in English. But we did have study communication skills class, which helped a lot. And, and also yeah like my first essay that I wrote was very stressful for me because it was freaking out. But my lectures and classmates are so helpful they helped me out a lot. And then you know like the next essays and reports I felt much more comfortable and study communication skills class helped a lot. So it's just practice and you'll get used to just don't worry don't be afraid it's it's okay. Yeah, I can confirm that actually like now my assignments take half the time the day to the first ones. I probably had to change three drafts like completely yeah. We're actually about to start writing our thesis this semester. Most of my classmates have never well not most of them but a lot of them have never written essays in English, because, or any 5000 word essay at all, because most of them come from abroad and from different educational backgrounds. So, like for me for example I did I be so I have written kind of a thesis paper before so I haven't some idea but some people don't so right now the first couple of weeks are all about leveling all of us so we all have the same. Advantage I guess so now we're doing all the referencing and learning how to, you know, do the conclusions and the intros and the thesis statement so it's like, you know, they help us a lot to kind of get balanced out. The next question is, how long does the visa take for processing. It really depends on your country I think. Yeah, it really depends. I actually, I have dual nationality from Bolivia and Spain so I didn't have to do the visa so I wouldn't know. Lucky. For you, Casey. Me. Oh my God when I was doing it for the first time, like before my first year when I was still in Moscow. It took, it took quite a while because you know like you have to book your appointment first and then you have to book another appointment for another appointment. So it took a while but just make sure to do everything on time. Just, you know, really follow the deadlines do everything in advance because it will it will help you save your nerves. But you know, like here in Prague when I was doing it this year. It was much easier. Yeah, I just like I just booked an appointment got all my documents by the time when people were super nice they speak English. And they help you a lot and even even if you mess something up like you mess up one paper. They're super nice like yeah like just redo it and come back and that's okay. Just don't like don't be late. And don't forget your appointment that's the only thing the most important one. In my case, I did my first visa in Kenya, but as obviously a Costa Rican citizen. So I had to get papers from Costa Rica, phone into Kenya and then like they were wrong so I had to get them again so it was a whole really long expensive process. But I think if you're doing it from your own country I think it's a lot easier. But still you have to, you know, go to embassy appointments a lot. And then, once here, my to get my biometric card which is like my temporary residency I think it's called. It took a long time because they weren't accepting my insurance. So it like I my visa expired in September and I had to like, I didn't have a visa until February because of that. It was very confusing and Nellie was the one who went with me and helped me and everything so again shout out to student services for making our lives a lot easier. Yeah, Nellie saved my life so many times. Another question this this for Casey Casey how do you like to create creative media production she's this person's considering the course. I love it. It's, it's very practical. It's extremely practical. Like every single assignment that we have is like usually an actual project that we're working on. And so I love that a lot. And yeah, we have so many different classes and we cover different aspects of filmmaking, which is amazing because when I started my program in the first year. I didn't really know exactly what I wanted to do. I was like, yeah, I want to do something with like media film but I didn't know what exactly. And then in the first semester when we were working on different projects and I you know I tried myself on pre production. I did some camera work I tried some editing tried like some script writing so I tried like all the aspects. And then I realized that like camera is my favorite thing to do and that I love cinematography. I have future projects because I already knew what I want to focus on. I could I was actually allowed to focus on cinematography, for example, and now we're working on a group project. And because we all like different things. We have like different roles within the project. And yeah, that's great that's amazing. I met so many amazing people because of my lectures because like they have connections with so many like artists around Prague. That's amazing how many cool people I met and how many cool people I got to work with, like with so many artists and yeah. The other question is, did you do the foundation diploma for arts and design for digital. You didn't write me know. What I what I know from foundation I didn't take the foundation but I do know a lot of people who have. It's really for people that kind of don't first of all don't have a portfolio or haven't don't have any background in arts, or don't feel like they know enough about like Photoshop and in design and like layouts and stuff, because that's practically what they teach like the Photoshop aspects and the fine arts and so they give you like a whole scope of all the arts. And then at the end you choose like do you want to stay in. Do you want to do graphic design you want to do fine art you want to do creative media do you want to do something completely different. I know people that only do foundation just because they want to. Like oh that's pretty cool like they don't, they can just go from there so yeah foundation I think works if you're kind of like not sure but you still want to do something with your life so. I was kind of sure I already had done I be. Then more questions. Is there an entry exam or do we directly go for interviews. Well it depends I think there's an application there's not an actual test but then from the application they either tell you if you pass the interview or not. I'm not sure what happened if they don't accept you can relate. I for me they, I send in my application and my portfolio and then I got an interview and then a couple days I think it was even that day I got the email now. You know what happened to me actually when I when I was supposed to have an interview and it was. I think three or four a.m. in Bolivia, the time so I did not figure the time correctly because I didn't account for the time difference. And so that was I was so nervous that I missed the interview by accident and so they were actually very nice to reschedule. And then here they said thank you for the answer Casey. You're welcome and I can say that in my case for creative media production. I had to write a motivational letter, along with my application. Yeah, so it's basically I think it's you know why you want to study the specific program like what are your like future goals why you want to study pro college so there was like motivational letter, and then after they read your motivational letter they set up the interview with you. The other question says, do you get work experience. We all have work experience but not from school, I guess. You want to talk about that. Like, I started to work since even before I started they won a university because I needed I needed the money. And so I've done a lot of jobs here in Czech Republic. And because it was easy since I have the dual citizenship so I am legally allowed to work here a part time or full time so I will I've been working as a waiter for the whole last year I worked as a tour guide for Spanish people. I worked as a pop crawl guide and then a through one of Prague College, a career. What is it called the event career career. Yeah, I got I got a, and you can call an actual job in an office in a recruitment. I was there for like eight months and I just switched to a full time job this year. And that's why I switched to part time studies. For me, since I, since I'm my visa is because that's another thing if you are a foreigner and don't have a dual citizenship like Nicholas you're not legally allowed to work in the Czech Republic. But sometimes I can be a little hard for people, mostly because most students do need the work to work for the money. But what I did was I got a trade license which does take some process. You could do it on your own but I just hired a company to do it for me because I do not want to deal with Czech government anymore. This is quite difficult that my experience. So I got somebody to get me the trade license and now I'm able to work with that and like, you know, legally give invoices to my clients, because I wasn't expecting to become a freelancer it was just just something that happened. So I couldn't, I was like, I can't do this because I'm not legally working or don't tell anybody. But anyways, so I have a trade license now. I'm only doing freelance. Nice. Let's see. Veronica says, oh God, I got out of it. One second. I'm applying for a graphic design course I heard that you spend most of the time with a laptop if you are a why does it keep coming off. A laptop of your graphic designer is it exhausting to spend so much time in front of a screen. You don't have to spend a lot of time in a laptop, no matter what your degree is because everything you do it's in the laptop so you will actually spend a lot of time in in your computer, no matter which degree you take. That's true. In my case. Yes, you spend practically all your waking hours on the computer. Because from in my experience like I do all my sketching I do all my idealizations and brainstorming and mind mapping on my computer, because I don't like to use pencils. But there are people that do like to draw and like do all the, you know, stuff. In my case I'm very digital. So I am. I love to be on the computer. It's very hard on my eyes that's why I have like blue canceling blue light canceling glasses because it helps a little bit. But for example, just to give an example of this weekend, we were working on this magazine project which is a lot. We were at bishops court, which is the second campus from one to nine the whole evening, then I came home finished working on that till two in the morning. And then I went, I woke up and from nine to nine was on my computer working on the magazine. So, yeah, that's, that's a lot. But again, as Nicholas says it is every job that you have. Yeah, in my case, I'm editing a lot. That's cases case. Yeah, in my case edit if you're in creative media production you will probably spend a lot of time editing. Let's see these comments keep coming off so. All right, can any of you guys get into the Facebook because maybe mine is just not working. I haven't opened the other ones. There is one actually that might be important did you find it easy to meet other people slash sell in. Oh yeah, this question was about, there we are. Thank you for the question is which school has the most students school of media business and art, and do the students usually just stay in the it with the people in their own programs. Okay. I think the art school has the most people. You're like the biggest program guys know. We have fine arts and graphic design and all the masters. I think graphic design is like the biggest. But our classes are like 10 people. Yeah, my creative media production is definitely the smallest. Yeah, probably. So I don't know between business because business classes are bigger than ours. Yeah, then I don't know how that works. We'll have to ask. Students usually just stay with people in their own programs. Well, I've seen that actually sometimes yes but it depends on on you. I was going out. I think in our group of friends there was one from each program so I'm friends with these two so like, you know, we're not I don't I think that everybody kind of mixes a lot mostly because all that you know if you just see somebody at the like the student lounge and you just start talking with them and you know, I feel like everyone just knows everyone at some point to be honest. And if you hang out in the student lounge, yeah, I don't know how it will be with like the digital campus if people get to know each other. I think that's something that rise really pushing because I don't know how how it would be like coming in into the digital campus but in the real campus, everybody knows each other. At least we've seen each other. Since I switched to online, when I started doing part time, I haven't met anyone. Oh yeah, I think you have a job. You have friends in your job. Yeah, there's another one there. What are the main difference between graphic design and fine art experimental media, anything that may help with me in choosing between them. I believe that the difference is the courses you take my friends in and what you want to specialize in my friends in fine art they most of the time are doing either sculptures or big like scale paintings. They have. Okay, we're not allowed to get into the modules but like, I know that they had live painting sessions and stuff like that. I've never had any painting sessions at all. Okay, maybe we'll clear it up. Our courses are changing so the courses that I took are completely different than the ones new people might come so I don't know if I'm allowed to say that. From what I know, fine art is more drawing and painting and us were more digital and everything else. I don't know. Anyways, are there more questions? I don't know. The question about settling in. Yeah, this is hard for you guys to meet people or or settle in. For me, it was not because you usually have your class and if you start in first year, then you have like, I don't know five other people there in your same class that also don't know anyone so you can just be friends with them or in welcome week you also get to meet all the new people which don't have friends as well. So you can be friends with them. I have to say that it was a bit hard to make friends with locals. But I mean, if you have your circle around a people in the uni, that's also fine. But I think it's always important to have local friends and like actually go out of your way to do that there are a lot of checks in in Park College. In my class I have only one though, but or one and a half kind of. But they're cut there. They're there. They're not that many and they're in Park College because they want to have the that international atmosphere, so they're not going to speak to you in check. And the check friends that I've made are friends from the gym or friends from work or friends, you know, from everywhere else but not from school so I have had to, you know, get go out of my way to find check friends. Yeah, in my case settling in was really easy, because before my first semester started pro college had welcome week. It was like something like taking care of business day where remember you was there. Like we got all together and you took us like to the bank to the transport cart place and like like for the phone and we got our bank account set up we got our like phone numbers, set up our transportation card so that was really nice and easy because you know because they're all together and that's just great. The funny is that Casey actually messaged me way before she came to proc college she was one of those that Instagram me, and now we're friends so it's so fun. Instagram you like a year before it. It was because of the takeover that I did from. Yeah, and then now we even work together on a project which is really yeah. Adry is the most senior of us here. I have been here for a long time. So I think in Prague in general it's quite easy, like when you go to different events, especially like art events like art galleries or if you go to like short film festivals, like parties, whatever there are so many people everywhere there are so many, like local people and international people. And everyone is usually super open to meeting new people. All right, another question is from a cluster you can actually, you know, she says that she's already in Prague and that she is a freelance designer, but she wants to have, she doesn't have a degree in that. And she's like, you guys are all very young are there any older students taking classes in VA. And it again it depends on your classes because classes are very small, but in my class for example when we came in, there were people from all ages. I remember our youngest was like, I think he was 16 when he came in. And our oldest was like 2025. So there is a big difference between them and then there's like everybody else in the middle that you know we're kind of in our 20s. So for VA, I think it really like it depends on the class that you have. I know a lot of people actually came into foundation year. And, and they've already had like their degrees and they already have like their careers and something else and then they decided to do foundation. And now they're artists you know so like it. Again, it really depends. I was talking with my friend she just turned 26 and she's like yeah you know I'm at my pace, you guys are in your pace. We all have completely different lives and I think that everybody's so understanding and, and we just work really well as groups because we are very like small classes which is really awesome because you get to meet everybody. So even if you're the oldest I think you'll enjoy it. In my class, for example, in BA Creative Media Production, I have people who are like 28, 26, 24, 20, 18. So there is like all range of ages and I know like people from business who are like in BA and they're like also 26. For example, I know people from foundation who also like 20 around 25. It really depends on the class. Yeah. Cool, do we have any other questions. I have one here says how many years are the bachelor programs. All of them are three I believe, which is so much better than American schools, sorry. I'm biased. I've been in British schools my whole life. Oh, there is a cool question. Do you have many exams? Do you guys have many exams? Actually, I would say we don't have many. I've never done an exam in the university. Same, same. I did. I did. In business, we do like I think the graphic design and our fine arts and so on they have more projects, which we do also in business. We mostly have like use cases and reports or essays, but then sometimes we've had some tests. But that's because we have some accreditation from ACCA and CIMA certifications. These are some international professional certifications so that we have to take tests so that we can get accredited for those certifications. Yeah, any other comment. Yeah, I most of my like all of my classes have been project based. I've never done an exam before. And the cool thing also is that it's not only projects that you're doing in class and like they're, you know, just what do you call this imagine projects? I don't know. But they're actual projects that you're working on. And for example, for last year we did a course in an office with the designers in that office. So it was pretty cool to actually have that experience. But yeah, it's all project based. Yeah, same for creative media production. I've never done an exam. We do like, we work on projects. Like it can be like a short film documentary project like reportage, something like this. And then we present it. Or we also have like some, we have, we do sometimes some reports, some essays, but the main projects are always like the actual like projects that you go out and film, and then you present. And I think that now that we said there are no tests, there are going to be at least five applications. Absolutely. But the point of presenting is really important because I personally speak a lot, and so I'm really good with presentations, but a lot of my classmates struggle with that so like seeing their progression from their first ever presentation to now is they're able to see how eloquent they are and how they're able to express themselves and their presentation skills have gone super super well, which I believe that's a way better skill to have than being able to take exams, because in real life, you are going to have to present proposals and stuff to your clients and to your boss, instead of. Actually, I was so not scared, but yeah, I was scared when I just started pro college. And I remember in like, first day of the welcome week address that she was like guys be prepared you have to present a lot. You know, like you will have to present like almost like every week, just be prepared for that and I was so scared because I've never like in my high school we did not do a lot of presentations. And especially I've never done a presentation in English so I was really anxious and really scared. Like in my first presentation I was so nervous. But then you know you do the more you do it the more you get used to it and then like now I'm so comfortable now I actually enjoy presenting because I'm presenting usually like my own works or something that I really like. And it's such a great skill to have. Awesome. Another question says, do I have to have some experience with the creative media production or where I learn everything. Really like in my class we have most people had zero experience in like media or filmmaking. When we started. So, no not really it's so it can be helpful if you have some basic understanding of like how to use a DSLR at least. Because it might be helpful for the very very very first small projects. Obviously now like you will learn everything at school, like, I think yeah like no one in my class had any previous experience, and we learned everything at school so not really. And the other question is any material recommendations for people planning on taking graphic design. The only thing that you will be required are the Adobe programs which you can actually get them on a student discount if you use your student email. So instead of paying like 60 euros you pay 20, which is way better than than painful price. A lot of people do have the cracked versions but obviously we don't talk about that. We don't talk about that. And then, in my case. Well, you know everybody says that oh to be a graphic designer you need a MacBook. No, no. You don't need a MacBook you just need a computer that works. I believe that I'm not sponsored by but I believe the Lenovo's are really good to to carry the programs they're very strong. And mostly they have like those big gaming computers those are great but I don't have one I have a touchscreen laptop, which is great when I have to do my sketches and my brainstorming and if I want to take notes that actually look like handwritten. Or if I just actually want to do an illustration that I want to draw, which has been really helpful. So the Lenovo yoga is a really good computer to get I've recommended it to a lot of people that have asked me that question on Instagram. Drawing tablets are also a great option. I've used them before but you know just like my mind does not connect me drawing here and the image there so it's just it doesn't work for me. It's it's too weird, but a lot of people do like drawing tablets it really depends and art materials, graphic designers we don't really use our materials if you do find art then you do use a lot of them but we don't. But yeah, that is, that's my answer. And those are all the questions we have. But how many more do we need to answer from the ones that were sent we have a lot don't we. Yeah, there are many more general questions that we were like prepared before. There is one that says, and why did you choose college. I remember, I really wanted to do something with film, and I was looking at schools like literally everywhere, like everywhere in Europe, in the states I didn't even care like which country to go to I just wanted to study something with film. But as you might know film schools are crazy expensive. Like, it's insane. And in most film schools you need to have a portfolio just to get in. So you need to have like a short film or something like this to get in. And I was in my like small hometown completely alone I didn't have like any friends who knew anything about film I did not know anything about it I had zero equipment. I didn't even have a DSLR. So I couldn't do that obviously, and I couldn't afford to pay for like super expensive film schools. And then I found and I wasn't sure if I want to do like only film exactly. And then I found creative media production at Procology and I just read the description and I saw like the video. And I was like, Oh my God, that's exactly what I want to do. And yeah, that's my story. Nicholas, how about you? Yeah, my case was that I was actually looking for a university in Prague, or in the Czech Republic where the better Prague. And there were things that I contacted many universities, and some of them were like not helpful at all, like their admissions team were like either not responding or just saying things like yeah go in the web and find out, and that was quite difficult. And then in some cases they wouldn't even want to recognize my education from Bolivia because it was not European education and they said that I needed to take one more year from university before I could just start university here. And so I didn't like that idea at all. And then I found Prague College and their admissions team was very nice, very helpful. They answered to all my crazy questions. And even when I didn't know any particular case or how to do something they would just like give me options or, or assist me so it was really smooth. And I'm quite happy I made a choice honestly. I, the question was why we chose Park College. Yeah. I was looking I wanted to be an architect. First of all, and so I was looking into schools in Europe just I knew I wanted to come to Europe I didn't want to go back to Costa Rica. So I was just searching for architecture schools and I found one here in Prague, and because of, you know, Facebook, knowing everything. One of their ads popped up one of our college ads. And I just clicked on it because it was in Prague and then I realized they didn't have architecture so I, you know, kind of put it in the back row. But then when I came back to my senses and I was like I don't want to be an architect anymore. And I want to be a graphic designer I remembered Park College had this course and so I, I had two options. One was in Italy one was in Prague and I was like, I'm going to apply at the same time. The people that respond first that's where I'm going and Park College answer first. It was, it was meant to be. But yeah, and what's the next question. I have one of the last ones from from my list and it says, could you please tell us a little bit more about about a project that you have worked on and you have liked in particular in school. Yeah. Yeah, we're assigned. Okay. Yeah, last semester actually it was, it was in the lockdown. I was I was working on a short documentary. And like, first we had to choose the topic that we want to do the like interview based documentary about. And I chose something like music and DJing because I was like, oh yeah, it'll look cool. And then actually I told my teacher about that. And turned out that he knows very like quite famous audio visual artist here who is also like famous in UK and Germany. And he was like, yeah, he's my friend. I'll get you in touch with him. So he got me in touch with him. And yeah, I made a documentary about that guy. And it was amazing. Like it was so fun. It was hard and fun working with him. And it was definitely my favorite project. It was really it was extremely challenging because it was in the lockdown. And, you know, plans for changing like their difficulties with the equipment with the filming with like locations and everything. I was going crazy, but I managed it and it was, it was really fun and I'm proud of the project. Like at the end, I made it was like 11 minutes short documentary. And yeah, that was really fun. For me, I, I love the most of the school projects I've done. Some of them were too influenced by my teachers that I ended up not liking them. But one of my favorite ones is I don't know if I can show it like this. If you can see it, there you go. It's a redesign of a photography book and so it looks so cool. Yeah, so I actually, it was an old. This is in my portfolio. So if anybody wants to check it out, it's in my portfolio. Well, you can see it though. Anyways, I'm not going to share my screen. The thing was, we would get a really, really old book. This was a book published in 1977. And it had no real graphic design because it was a time where, you know, it was just layouts. And, and we would get to redesign it. So I started from scratch. And then I took the whole progress and was able to print it out. And so I have a book there and it's like, so cool. So seeing like, you know, my ideas come to life. That's the moment that I was like, I want to do this for the rest of my life. Well, okay, so business. It's not as exciting. Yeah, so if I can think of my projects, there was one that I actually liked because, you know, a business tends not to be so creative as graphic design and art so we don't get to actually do redesign anything or build something but there was one research in project management that I remember that in which we had to do actual research and we have to conduct some surveys to people we had to do analytics with these results and then create some, some hypothesis from the data and back it up with more data so that it was quite interesting and that's quite accurate to what people actually do when they work so that was quite exciting like to do the surveys and then doing the analytics that was something that I didn't enjoy. All right, where we differ. I don't like the survey. Okay. All right, so we're I think we're 455 so maybe we should have two more questions. How should a portfolio for graphic design look like it really depends on your taste and on what you want if you have any idea of what you want to focus on. Well, I knew that I wanted to do kind of like branding and visual identity so I did a lot of that. And I just did like a PDF of like the size of my computer and then I would just put the approach like the project and maybe a little bit of the progress, but most of it it was just the final product like a final project and visuals, so that people would see like my skills. And then the other question is how should a portfolio for fine arts look. I'm not sure about the requirements of the fine arts for us the requirements were just like, I think it was 17 to 20 pieces of visuals. But I'm guessing it's similar so I guess it has to do with the paintings and the drawings and the videos that you've made for fine art. But yeah, it depends on your, your thing if you have any other questions about portfolios for graphic design, then you can message me on Instagram. But yeah, all right. What were you going to say Nicholas. Maybe we should start closing. Or, or is there any final questions so that you can find anywhere. And that was it. All right, so maybe we can start closing. Thank you everyone for watching us. I don't know how many people that are watching us right now. There's five right now. You're right in my life. Well, and I'm sure that this video will be started in Pratt College Facebook post so if you have any question then don't hesitate to to ask admissions or maybe you can contact one of us. I'd be very happy to answer any question because it looks like everyone here was more towards design. Yeah. So I think that's it from us right. Yeah. Thank you guys so much for taking over with me. And thank you for the people behind cameras that helped put this together. Thank you so much for taking over with me and Alexa and right and everybody else. So thank you. Yeah. And I guess yeah that's it for us. Thank you guys. Bye. Right should should write close I don't know I think we have to leave the thing. Yeah, should we just leave. I think so. Good job guys, you can just close when you're done. Thank you guys.