Getting into Party Mode

It is nice to go out to a friend's 25th birthday party and have a little to drink and smoke. I was filming his band on DV camera in the rehearsal studio where the party was held. I experimented with the camera settings (normal and night mode) and the panning and zooming. Over 40 minutes to edit. Talked to the Simon's friends at the venue as well. The venue is the third floor rehearsal room in Sankeys soap. I look forward to Emma's party on Saturday and am also pleased that another music producer Martin has replied to my christmas text. Next Susan...um.

Tomorrow I will get the Web stuff online for solar energy systems and get cracking with the acoustics assignment. At least the LearnDirect course will be finished tomorrow. Then Kalvin will come over for a chat, check my Web page, and get this business thing off the ground. Talking about business and innovation I went to the BBC Innovation day in Manchester earlier today. I made one talk about digital TV and gaming and then walked the stalls. BBC not recruiting for R&D at the moment - other stuff maybe. Many of the demonstrations were good - automated production, visual animatics, and effective storage and retrieval techniques.

I could understand what all the people were saying and it seems like I have a general foundation skillset for most jobs in TV or radio. Yet when I have applied for entry level jobs in the past I never get an interview. This has been annoying and is either the 100 applicants for 1 job scenario or there is something on my CV or covering letter they do not like. Anyway I came out of there buzzing and wishing for a better way to deliver DTV. This could be a franchise of the BBC or an independant company that uses ideas together with BBC programmes. Yet the BBC are asking people to supply ideas to them and the restricted funding can only be used on some projects. Thus original ideas are often ignored. There is something potentially very wrong here.