Meet Nader! BA Journalism Student in my final year, he is mainly involved in political and activist type journalism, likes writing articles about current events and discussing them. While he enjoys reporting on most things (general subjects) he likes taking an approach that indirectly leads the reader to a conclusion he might want them to get to.

His thesis is about how media sways opinions on public issues. That is to say how mass media (could) have an undue influence on people’s opinions about world events and politics as a whole. Nader believes it could be rather interesting to (possibly) discover a link between the two. This also ties into his earlier mention of political journalism.

Meet Rachel! Rachel has always been interested in the arts; from a young age, she did ballet and always involved herself in any school production. Two years before enrolling into MCAST, she joined the Free Spirit Acting School, which kindled her pursuit of acting or theater in general. After a short spell in Media, she joined the Performing Arts course. She joined it not truly understanding what the course was about and as sort of on a whim because she still had that small love for theater and for acting that she wanted to explore.

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Meet Andreas! Andreas was brought up in the cold lands of Denmark and moved to a much smaller country called Malta which was a life-changing event. The transition from one life to another was an eye-opener to a different culture, so he found photography as his ideal medium for capturing new moments. Through vast inspirations, he has created an ongoing developing photographic style of fashion, street, and landscapes as they reveal a truer emotion in my eyes. All these fascinate him as they vary in style through time and places which create a unique look.

Meet Rachel! currently based in Malta, reading for her B.A. (Hons.) in Creative Media Production and has been attending the school since 2016, where she read for an Advanced Diploma in Creative Media Production. Upon graduation, she plans to move to Berlin to pursue an MA in Directing. Her love and passion for cinema has forced Rachel to push herself out of her comfort zone and has taught her to strive to challenge herself and her ideas, to provoke her audience.

Meet Vincenzo! Vincenzo Calafiore is a 3D generalist who aspires to become a technical artist. His range of abilities goes from purely artistic and graphical subjects to the development of interactive projections and small scripts. He poses extreme attention to details and always tries to find why some designs work and others do not. He likes to learn and gather knowledge about anything design related and has a strange obsession for pipelines efficiency, non-disruptive workflows, procedural techniques and being fast between design iterations.

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Meet Zoe! As a Game Artist & Visual Designer, most of her work is made through digital means. Zoe describes herself as a generalist artist, making use of different programs and tools,  for digital paintings she uses Adobe Photoshop a Graphic Tablet. On the other hand, when I am creating logos and designs for my graphic design works, I use Adobe Illustrator and occasionally use Photoshop and use just a mouse most of the time. Though I say this, I am still a bit of a traditionalist and prefer my brainstorm ideas and first sketches to be made with paper and pencil.

In this weeks episode, get to know the Diversify brand identity and this year's aesthetic. A nostalgic and uplifting feel but still fresh and relevant. Paying homage to the '70s & '80s the cut and pate style is influenced by the zines of the era and flash tattoo designs. To find out more and purchase your own merch, head over to https://www.zaar.com.mt/projects/mcast-ica-festival-2021/ and be sure to follow us on Instagram @icafestival!

A warm welcome to the Take It All In Podcast, hosted by Mark Kitcher a 3rd Year B.A (Hons) in Photography student. Tune in to learn more about what goes on here at the Institute for The Creative Arts.