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Duck TV Winter Term Events

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  With the help of wonderful sponsors, University of Oregon’s Duck TV has conducted many great events in the past and will carry out many more in the future. On Wednesday the 29th and Thursday the 30th, Duck TV is having two exciting events: the Winter term premier, and the Qdoba fundraiser.
  Sponsored by HungryDucks.com, the Duck TV Winter term premier will be located in Allen Hall, room 221, on Wednesday at 8 P.M. (and yes, there will be food). If you are unable to attend the screening but would still like to watch Duck TV’s premier, tune into Eugene’s public access channel (Channel 29) at 8:30 P.M. on Wednesday. Whether you are a Duck TV member or not, everyone is welcome at the premier. Come to see your favorite news and sports reporters, watch all of the original shows, and enjoy a night filled with games and raffle tickets that you will be able to use at our next upcoming event – the fundraiser at Qdoba!
  Last term, the fundraiser at Qdoba was successful in creating on-campus awareness about Duck TV. If you didn’t get a chance to be a part of it last term, help support Duck TV by stopping by the campus Qdoba (located on E. 13th St.) on Thursday. To get discounts on food and drinks, go to Qdoba between 7 P.M. and 10 P.M. on Thursday the 30th, and say “#QdobaLovesDuckTV” when ordering. Customers who say this will get twenty percent off, and proceeds will go to Duck TV. If you have raffle tickets from the term premier, you may use those as well. You can also come to watch or participate in the burrito eating contest, which will be starting at 8 P.M.. Qdoba is a major supporter of Duck TV; providing opportunities for students to gain professional experience while working with a local business.
  Off-campus events, such as the Qdoba fundraiser, are invaluable for the Duck TV Public Relations and Advertising team. Duck TV’s public relations co-director, Lindsey Simmons, explains that off-campus events give its members “…the ability to work on skills like event planning and sponsorship coordination, and holds our PR team accountable for raising some of our promotion money.” Although Duck TV is non-profit, the goal is to contribute to funding for the program, while gaining experience and creating community awareness. Duck TV is also working towards getting sponsors for their in-house screenings, with the primary focus being fundraising as well as increasing buzz and interaction between the program and its audience. They are striving to create awareness in everything that Duck TV does, whether it’s on or off campus, in the School of Journalism, or around the community.

by Aimee Griswold

Get to Know Producer: Louie Hogan of Duck TV’s Franken Affairs

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It was last spring when the Duck TV show Franken Affairs was born. One day, producer Louie Hogan was sitting in his class about Shakespeare and began to doze listening to his professor read in iambic pentameter when he was struck with an idea. A story began to form and Hogan realized that he could create an entire TV show based on his idea. Scribbling fast, Hogan wrote the first draft to Franken Affairs in the back of his textbook. He said that as he began to write, rather than creating the story, he let the story come to him and uncovered the quirks of his characters and the winding twists and turns of the story line along the way.
“Franken Affairs is a fairly pretentious endeavor to tell a story that is effectively one giant pun,” says Hogan. The script is written in iambic pentameter and it is filled with Elizabethan vocabulary to match the tone of the story. While Hogan explains the plot, it is clear that his class on Shakespeare helped inspire his idea for this TV show, “A king commends his brother, the national Judge, on his righteousness but is interrupted by a soothsayer who tells the king that he will be slain by the fairest in the land.” From this point on, the story line moves forward with imprisonment of a maiden, characters conspiring against the king, and murders which all eventually lead to the reveal of who holds the title of ‘the fairest in the land.”
Hogan says that the most difficult part of writing a script in such an advanced form is the time it takes. Sometimes, even the shortest scenes can take hours to write. Hogan mentions that the time it has taken to write and refine the script makes it all worthwhile when he and co-producer Ry Basham-Mintz can see their success in the form of complicated puns and well-timed word play.
Louie Hogan is a senior in his third year, majoring in Religious Studies and it is amazing that he even has time to be a part of Duck TV. In addition to being a producer, Hogan is taking 18 credits, works 19 hours a week on campus troubleshooting computer problems for faculty and GTFs through the CASIT (College of Arts and Sciences Information Technology) Department, and on top of that, his weekends consist of him traveling to Hillsboro, Oregon for his internship. Ry is busy as well, juggling 17 credits and working as an RA. “To say time is against us in an overt simplification, and I’m still stressing out about how we’ll pull it off, but I’m confident we will,” says Hogan.
If Shakespearean puns and plot twists are your cup of tea, make sure to check out Franken Affairs airing Wednesday, January 29th this winter term.

By Sara Kuhnhausen

Rolling Through Week 6

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Tonight Duck TV has its third showing, sponsored by Track Town Pizza. The last two showings have been huge, full house successes- with a huge thanks to Starbucks and Redbull. So far, only one episode of each of our creative segments have been released- IN$TINCT and Second Chance Man two weeks ago and Closing Time and Steinman & Brown last week. Tonights event will show the next installments of IN$TINCT and Second Chance Man, if you haven’t seen the first episode of these, go watch now! We last left our audience with cliffhangers, wondering what shady business David is involved in that Joel doesn’t know about, why is Joel in custody, and will Jake choose the life he wanted in 2004, or the one he’s lived for the past 9 years? Come tonight at 8pm in Allen 221 to answer some of your questions, and leave you asking more.

Fall 2013 Kickoff!

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After a long summer and a few weeks of preparation, Duck TV is set to kick off in full swing tomorrow night in the new Allen Hall! The premier is taking place in Allen 221 tomorrow night (Wednesday 10/23) at 8:00pm. Being a new term, we have four brand new shows to showcase and of course, our news and sports segments. As if the premier itself isn’t enough to bring you in, the Duck TV team is providing free pizza and Red Bull energy drinks to all attendees. Everyone involved in the process of making the segments and putting together our Wednesday night showings is very excited to show off their hard work. Grab your friends and come celebrate with us and help ring in a new term of Duck TV!

 

Our new segments for Fall ’13 are:

Steinman & Brown

Second Chance Man

Closing Time

Instinct

 

Can you guess which one of these is a comedy/parody of college life at the UO? Come tomorrow night at 8 to find out!

Oregon Relays

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Historic Hayward Field hosted the Oregon relays this weekend, which saw competitors at both the high school and collegiate level. High schools from all over the northwest represented, and the Oregon men’s track team competed in a head-to-head dual with the no. 2 team in the land, the Arkansas Razorbacks.

DuckTV Sports’ Shannon Hartley has the story from Hayward.