Week 1 Project: My Full Sail Story

 Before I started Full Sail University, I was unsure about my future career plans. I felt small and unsure, like a solitary person before a vast horizon.



I am an immigrant and a Fulani (nomad), I was born in a Guinea (West Africa), in a multi-ethnicity; cultural and traditional environment. In High School, I created my name Brand "OLLAID" , it was just a rewording of my Last Name "DIALLO" which is a popular Last Name in West Africa. After graduating High School, I was able to find a way to come to the United States Legally by applying for the Diversity Immigrant Visa program and I was granted a Visa that enabled me to become a Permanent Resident of the United States.


I have always wanted to get involves in the Media and Entertainment Industry but without a production company, that was never going to happen. I worked as a promoter on events and attended different cultural venues and I saw first hand how all these different people interact with each other. But then I came to the realization that I needed to acquire the skills and tools to not only tell my story but to help create an environment where each society or people from different traditions and cultural values connect with each other through their creations. Because of that, I am grateful for making the decision to attend Full sail University to learn the skills and acquire the tools that I need to achieve my long term goal of being able to tell my own visual life story at graduation and eventually staring my own production company. Because of that, I started setting up the first multicultural radio station here in the United States and in my native country Guinea, where I will be hosting and playing music from different cultures, basically the first international multicultural radio station to help connect people.

Because of that my life have changed and my career plans are more clear. Recently, I was able to read more about how to become a Digital Contents Creator and how to acquire the same knowledge used in Hollywood. I couldn't find an appropriate Institution. One day, I was scrolling my Facebook feed, and I saw this ad about an Online Digital Cinematography program, after watching that ad, I immediately realized that I still have a chance to not only show my story to the world but help connect others using digital contents. At first, I didn't realize that I was embarking on a new journey until finally, this past June, I enrolled in the Digital Cinematography program, and ever since I decided to pursue my passion of becoming a Digital Contents Creator and tell my story to inspire and help connect the United States to the people of my Country and the rest of Africa. With the current state of the world, Africa is the the next global frontier for growth and development.


Abdoulaye Diallo
Creator Name: King Ollaid

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