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As incredible as it sounds, from time to time I DO remember that I have a website.
I’m also aware that I haven’t updated since July (the Spanish version at least).
The truth is that my lack of time and inspiration haven’t done any good to the blog. After I returned from the US in August I didn’t know what to write about. Many times I started writing something only to leave it empty again.
I should shame myself and say I’m sorry.
John, my roomate in Texas, one of my last days at UNT
After finishing the 3rd year of Radio, TV and Film studies at the University of North Texas I moved to Washington DC for 3 months. During that time I was working at Voice of America. In fact I still work with them in the “Technomaniac” column for their website.
At Voice of America my last day at work
When I came back to Spain I thought it’d be a little bit stupid to keep the same path I had taken with the blog: showing how the life is for a foreign exchange student in the US. Of course I could now do the same for the rest of the world, showing the life of a Spanish student. But that would mean little for the Spanish readers and it didn’t sound like a very good idea.
My last night in the US, at Virginia Beach
For personal things, there’s already Tuenti, Facebook, Twitter… and I haven’t had many interesting things happening to tell.
So then… what to write about?
It’s something I should start thinking.
Some interesting things DID happen, like my being a producer for a short movie at the University of Navarra.
Shooting the short movie “La Caja” (title of work in progress)
Or my being a technical director at the International Documentary Festival Telenatura.
The trophy for the “Best Documentary” in Telenatura, for “The Forest” from the UK
And Anchel.com has been alive for 6 years now.
And yet I haven’t done anything to celebrate it. Maybe I could post something to commemorate?
We’ll see…
On NTTV, the local TV station for the University of North Texas, we created at the beginning of last semester a group of Spanish-speaking students to create a new show for hispanics. Now the show is almost ready to be aired and this is one of the sections of the 30-minute show.
My work on this video was both producing, directing and editing.
THIS IS NOT A FINAL VERSION, but a preview model until the rest of the contents and the logos are ready. Here it goes:
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3508783&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00adef&fullscreen=1
Improv Comedy Group de University of North Texas en Ardillando (NTTV) from Anchel Labena on Vimeo.
In Spain lots of people complain about the “americanization” of many TV shows. But the truth is… IT’S FUN TO PRODUCE THEM!!
I will explain myself: each of the students in our class had to produce and direct a TV game show contest and record it all LIVE. My contest was a “lite” version of the Spanish TV contest “Wordpass” (I even had to create a system to show on-screen the real-time scores for both contestants to emulate the original contest and use 4 cameras at the same time). The picture above is from the last game show we recorded. Directed and produced by our classmate Oz, I was the host for a pie-eating contest. The ones next to me are Sam and Dustin, the two contestants.
As you can see, we all enjoyed the pies in the end…
I might soon make some of the videos from the contests available here on this website 😉
I will leave you with another random picture: Rock Band 2 in some friends’ room.
I only want to upload today a small radio ad I recorded in my Radio & TV Announcing class here at UNT. It’s not anything big, but like all the projects I do, I keep them safe and, sometimes I like publishing them online.
The ad is for a fake videogame. The picture used as the background is in Spain, at the studios for Cadena SER Cinco Villas (radio station back at home) but it was good enough for this purpose:
Starting with which number of inches do you think a TV screen is really big?
32”?
40”??
Maybe 50”???
In Spain, screens of 50” are incredibly high. Start thinking of over $2.500 at the very least.
But here in the USA with the philosophy of “bigger is better” (specially in Texas), there’s no problem in finding TV screens of the humongous size of 73”!!!
Ready with all the typical specs of hi-tech TVs, it comes with all the new standards like 1080p, HDMI connections, Digital TV… and many more.
So what about the price? It’s as cheap as $1750!
Oh! And just for the sake of filling today’s post with something else, here’s a picture showing the marketing that the movie Quarantine (the American remake of the Spanish movie REC) with some other random pictures:
In case somebody wanted to know, this here is my roomate John 🙂 The guys in the first picture are Salome and Luke.
Today I wanted to update with anything, but I couldn’t think of what I could post so I uploaded some random pictures from the past weeks:
For example, I want to say that the ice creams at Denton Square are GREAT!
I also want to add that for the first time we got in one of the dorm cafeterias (Bruce Hall) a sub with crunchy-on-the-outside bread (just the way we like it in Spain). I had never seen one here!
John and Brandon are still as crazy as ever, even right in the middle of our dorm’s halls.
And finally, when boredom comes in, what’s better than playing Connect Four with my roomate John?
What you’re about to see is a series of church announcements that, even though whoever wrote them probably did it with his best intentions in his mind, they still result being hilarious. Special thanks to Manolo Rodríguez for sending me the original file.
I’ve tried doing my best to translate it into English, but there might still be some parts that will not keep the same meaning no matter how hard I try. Still, I’ve tried to keep them as close as possible to the original.
(By the way, the church in the picture is the one in my town back in Spain).
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Today was my first time working (as a volunteer – I can’t legally work in the US because of my Student VISA) in the TV station NTTV (North Texas Television).
Being a TV station made by and for students, all the NTTV team has free access to participate in any of the productions. In my case, today I was editor and news-writer at the same time I helped with the live production of the show.
The name is NTTV Noon News, a small news program of 5 minutes aired from Monday to Thursdays. Here is today’s show (sorry for the low volume at the beginning of the show):
North Texas Television is a non-profit, student run, cable access channel on channel 42 on Verizon and channel 22 on Charter Communications Cable in Denton, Texas.
I usually don’t publish articles like this, but this piece of news that my friend John sent me through Facebook surprised me so much that I couldn’t let it go.
Acording to the digital version of the British tabloid The Sun, Alfie, 13 years old, and Chantelle, 15, had a baby five days ago.
When asked what he was thinking when all this happened, Alfie said that “I never thought about how I would afford it. My father sometimes gives me 10 pounds.”
The news have reached even the highest ranks of the British Government. The lider of the Torys, David Cameron, commented that “When I saw those pictures in the morning, I thought how worrying it is that in Britain children today have children”. Prime Minister Gordon Brown didn’t comment directly on the story, but added that it’s important that the Government does everything possible to avoid teenage pregnancy.
I only wanted to let people know about these news through here. As for me, I think it is really irresponsible that parents don’t even realize the situation until it is so late. Even worse, how could a kid, who only did it once without protection at 12 years old, that he could have a child and continue with his life as usual.
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