Creative Loop Podcast

After seventeen years at the BBC Martin MacKenzie has gone freelance and is not looking back. He's a Post Production Editor, he chops and cuts the television programmes that you've been watching for years, and now he's looking for the new breed of talent to step up to the mark. In this interview, Martin reveals where the skill shortage is in the industry and why he's come to the Creative Loop Student Media Festival to engage with students. Whether it be Avid, Final Cut or paper and glue, you can be the best technician in the country, but if you don't have that edge you're going to be found out. If you plan to start a career in moving images, or even if you're a radio person, this is sage advice from a man who knows his stuff and cares passionately about the future of Scottish media. "..you have the necessary skills to survive...the next step is to get in contact with the people you want to be with invovled with.." - Martin MacKenzie