Film crew to capture IU 'partying'

Fuzzy bar-hopping memories from this weekend might sharpen come mid-\nNovember. \nA film crew is rolling into three Bloomington bars Saturday night to film students "partying" for a DVD called "The Top 10 Party Schools," which will be sold online in about a month, said Jessica Morgan, a producer for Dancing Toad Productions, the Manhattan-based company producing the feature.\n"We have camera crews traveling to 11 schools to take video of students partying," Morgan said. "We picked the schools based on a gazillion lists. We used the Princeton Review, Playboy and talked to a bunch of students we know to decide which schools to go to."\nCamera crews will be rolling tape at the Jungle Room, the Bluebird Nightclub earlier in the night and Kilroy's on Kirkwood after midnight to "see who parties the hardest," Morgan said. She added the bars were picked based on student feedback.\nCopies of the DVD will be distributed via the Web site www.partyschools.com, and should be ready for sale by mid-November or early December, Morgan said.\nShe said her production company is taking out newspaper ads and advertising through airways at schools across the nation, while also using students to spread the word to show at the bars.\nJunior Janelle Nickelson said she'll be hitting the drinking establishments with the group as a production assistant. She was recruited for the job by a supervisor at her current internship at B97, a popular local radio station.\n"He said they were filming this Saturday, and were looking for someone to help out who's 21 and knows the bar scene," Nickelson said. \nHer duties will include having camera-hungry Hoosiers fill out consent forms and helping recruit party-people to get in front of the camera. She said Morgan also asked her to encourage people to show, although the bars are taking care of a lot of the promotion. \n"I hope that they (students) make IU look good, not trashy," Nickelson said. "I want to buy this DVD and go, 'Heck yeah, this is my school.' I hope people aren't trashy and just making out in front of the camera."\nMorgan said the DVD is not a "Girls Gone Wild" clone, but a "party video" featuring "college kids partying."\n"At first I suggested they probably want to go to Nick's, because it's such a cool place, but she said any place you think is kind of low-key, we want off the list," Nickelson said. "I think I know she is looking for kind of 'sex sells' more then people cheersing their beers"