The Chaparral

Issue date: 4/28/08 Section: Opinion

Despite high-powered celebrity endorsements, some students aren't sure that "Rubber Ducky" really is "the one." Photo courtesy of Sesame Street.

Will someone please change the required prop for the College of the Desert film festival?!

I am a film student at COD and have seen many wonderful films which are being entered in the Student Film Festival held on the April 25.

To watch a horror flick and then see a shot of the duck, sort of throws off the entire film. Imagine a man going in for his kill and then you see the actress holding up a yellow duck in an attempt to defend herself. Or a film based on a dying young man and on his bed stand is a yellow rubber ducky. It just doesn't work!

I do understand the purpose for putting the duck in the film is to signify the recent making of the film, but a duck? And not the type of duck which sits in a pond, but a yellow duck you see floating at a carnival when you're trying to score a cheap stuffed animal for your date.

The rules couldn't be changed to have a specific key, a clock, a lamp, a ball just something other than a yellow duck?

It really makes it challenging to do a pick-up shot with a yellow duck and somehow tie it into your film. It can be done but it's such a strange choice and I feel it needs to change.

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