This week was our busiest this semester in terms of our project. After doing all our planning and preparing we finally had our decorating competition on Tuesday. Before the competition, we met to do pre-interviews and discuss both what we’d done to prepare, again, and how we thought that would give us an advantage/disadvantage in the final competition. It will be interesting to see the pre-interviews now that the competition is through.
The following day, we had the actual competition. Even though we had prepared for quite some time, there was still some difficulty in execution. Part of the problem was spatial issues, in that ideally we would have used multiple JVC cameras for recording the competition but that wasn’t available, Instead, we used a JVC camera, a couple DSLRs and a iPad to create a myriad of footage. The actual competition was very entertaining. We gave ourselves 30 minutes, which turned into about 40 min, to create cakes within the theme of Spring. Some people brought props and others didn’t even bring their own cakes- as someone else had baked it for him. Despite how we each anticipated ourselves doing, though, I would say the competition went as we were expecting. Those who had been taught by other people had the nicest cakes, while those with less preparation “failed it.” I will say, though, I did zero preparation and made a cake that was clearly a bunny, possibly a deformed bunny, but still impressive. I would say it was all a success.
Group Four 