Jigsaw Education

CS5 has just been released, and like any red blooded creative IT enthusiasts, we’re very excited. While we were poring over the new features, and admiring the jazzy new packaging, we got to thinking: what can we tell about industry trends from looking at the latest additions to the Creative Suite family?

Filmmaker Alister Chapman travels hundreds of miles to capture extreme weather conditions on video – including tornadoes, hurricanes, and lightning storms. When he dropped into our Nottingham office for a chat, we couldn’t pass up the chance to ask him a few questions about his work.

Creativity is a great buzzword at the moment – everyone wants children to be more creative, but what does that mean? Why is everyone so bothered? What has technology got to do with it?

Tom Hughes is the video journalist for Seven TV, the longest running community TV channel in the UK. Seven broadcasts to over 140,000 homes on the Virgin Media network in North and North East Lincolnshire. Here, Tom gives us a little insight into life in the broadcast industry…

NewTek’s TriCaster is an entire live studio in one small box, letting you ‘live edit’ by adding effects and transitions as you record your broadcast or stream it on the web. It promises a lot, but does it deliver? We review TriCaster to see if this box of tricks lives up to its claims.

In 1983, an elderly man walked into the screen while watching ‘Jaws 3-D’ at the cinema. He claimed he couldn’t tell the difference between the auditorium and the open seas. Fair enough, but surely the 10ft face of Dennis Quaid should have tipped him off?

In the next few years, the creative industries are set to boom, with jobs in illustration and graphic design already on the rise. We picked the brains of Julian James, freelance illustrator, graphic designer extraordinaire and founder of online art magazine ‘New Sugar’, to discover his secrets behind good design.

We recently got talking to one of our audio consultants Alex Judd (alias DJ Soul Intent).

We talked to roving creative, Julian James, to find out what life is like for a freelancer.

Kieron Concannon, MD of FDM Records, took us for a rumble in his JCB and told us how he set up his own independent record label.