KING OLLAID

  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 ...

BLOG ARTICLE ON THE INTRODUCTION TO FILM AND VIDEO  During this month, we learned the basic knowledge and tools required to make great contents. Starting with the first week where we studied that  Character evolution is effectively the roughly equivalent to a character arc. It’s the central journey a character takes on over the progression of the story, with a substantial transformation or progression as the  final outcome.  Maybe the character has a moral to realize, past trauma to move past or a fatal flaw that holds him back. That’s where the story comes in. The story is your venture to aid the character in changing into who the character needs to be for better or worse.   We work on the theory of character evolution, and discussed on the levels of character at the end of stories, a bout how the stories shows this transformation as an act or action. Below are some of my personal remarks. In APRICOT - short film by Ben Briand Written & Directed by Ben...

                        BLOG ARTICLE ON THE HISTORY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS: The Evolution of Documentary Filmmaking:      During the U.S. involvement in World War II, the Hollywood film industry cooperated closely with the government to support its war-aims information campaign. In the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, the idea of “synergy” dominated the motion-picture industry in the United States, and an unprecedented wave of mergers and acquisitions pursued this ultimately elusive concept. Simply put, synergy implied that consolidating related media and entertainment properties under a single umbrella could strengthen every facet of a coordinated communications empire. Motion pictures, broadcast television, cable and satellite systems, radio networks, theme parks, newspapers and magazines, book publishers, manufacturers of home entertainment products, sports teams, Internet servic...

Hi everyone, My name is Abdoulaye Diallo, I am an immigrant and a Fulani (nomade), I was born in a multi-ethnicity; cultural and traditional environment. Growing up in Gbenko (Kerouané, Guinea) where my father was working for the only Diamond Mine in the country. I was fortunate to get the chance to attend both quranic and government school. By the time I was graduating from primary school, most of the employees of the Diamond mine was getting laid off and for some reason my father had to leave the family in the hand of my mother to raise, fortunately, my mother own a store on the main street of Gbenko, where she would sale most groceries needed in the community. We all lived peacefully with many other ethnicities with different traditions. After the Diamond mine permanently stopped operating because the owner of the mine at the time where foreigners and decided to take back their investment. Many of the families lost their jobs, as a result, my family moved to the capital Conakry wher...