University and other Stuff!

I forgot to mention, university has begun.
The name of my course is Foundation Degree in Television and Interactive Media.
So far projects include a documentary, another video of anything to learn how to edit with premier pro, and an 800 word essay.
My documentary is going to be on 'A day in the life of a windup toy'. Its a bit random, but random is good, I think im going to make it a tale of woe as well.
The other two im not totally sure of just yet.
Rather than go through the mundane week to week blog of university I'll probably only pick out the highlight in this here blog and use it more for my extra stuff!

I have two things planned at the moment.
A couple of friends of mine have asked if I could make their band a music video. I have welcomed this opportunity and arranged to go to rehearsal with them shortly. I think im going to keep this one fairly simple and just concentrate on the band itself and just them playing for this video. They had some ideas of their own to coincide with the lyrics of their chosen song but I feel its going to be a little rushed as theres no time at the moment to sit down with them and story board and stuff. So instead I shall be at their next rehearsal and also at a local gig of theirs on the 26th oct.
My main promblems with this one are that I only have one camera for this, ideally I would have several so I can multicam edit. Instead im going to have to be inventive. During reheasal I can get them to play as many times as I like, but at the live gig I only have one shot. I think plenty of B-roll should give me enough to be creative with.
The other problem is that I shant have a good quality recording of their track until January, which means the final edit shant be completed until shortly after. I can do a rough cut with the sound I can get off the camera in the meantime but i'll still have to wait on the proper recording.

My other little project is with Tom at Bogiez. I have managed to convince him that I should do him a promo video for Bogiez at halloween. Halloween at Bogiez is always fantastic, the costumes are incredible and we always decorate. I envision some lovely focus pulls with the pumpkins in the foreground and some good shots of the massive cue and crowds, Tom as alawys wants 'plenty of crowd shots on the dance floor!'. I'll have loads of control over the lighting in there and I'll be able to get some good reactions and crowd shots since I know everyone and I'll have a micrphone to shout at people with (or get the djs to shout at them).
First things first though. I know the Z1 isnt amazing in low light from what people have told me. I'm going to have to test this out for myself though as I dont ever believe what people say until I've tried it. I'll be taking the camera down to Bogiez to do some test shots on the 18th to see what I can get.

That is all for now