- My name is Diveakssh and I'm from Bangalore, India.
About five years ago, I decided to move to Brisbane, Australia,
and started studying at the Queensland Academy for Creative Industries
in Kelvin Grove, Brisbane.
There I studied a full IB diploma,
specialising in film and theatre.
However, the IB is a very holistic course
and therefore you do your English, math, another language,
and they allowed me to try a bit of directing, producing,
script-writing, lighting design and finally sound design,
and I thought, "OK, this is what I'm interested in."
So it was a very eye-opening experience.
Also because they allowed me to do courses at university
while I was still in high school.
And they still offer similar programs where your university study
can be integrated into your high school study.
And the facilities we had at the Queensland Academy
are superior to the ones I even have at a university level in some aspects,
such as the music studio, the film equipment.
I'm on the road to graduate very soon, in November,
and I've lined up a job,
I'm just transitioning into a role at Uber, the ride-share service,
and I'll be working as a marketing operations coordinator for Queensland
and I'm very, very excited. And I have to say that
one of the reasons that made me employable at Uber
is the fact that I have skills in audio and visual.
So the fact that I studied film at QACI and theatre
allowed me to get these audio/visual and technical-meets-creative skills.
And I freelance as a sound designer under the name Shay
and I've started to get paid projects.
I've made sounds for apps, I've made sounds for various films, theatre,
both in India and in Australia,
and I'm just finding that the skills that I learnt from QACI
are very, very transferable and applicable.
So if you're thinking of moving and joining the Queensland Academies,
I would really, really recommend it.