Build a stork in the dark
Task types:
Solo
Filmed
Creative
Physical
Subjective
Single brief
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Task brief
The brief for the task is as follows:
Build a nice stork on the table.
You have 10 minutes to collect materials.
Then you have 10 minutes to build your stork.
During those 10 minutes, you must stand on the mark and may not leave it.
Best stork wins.
Your time starts now.
Task notes
- The task takes place in the lab, where a life-size model of a stork has been left on the table as a reference for the contestants.
- A spot is designated on the ground behind the table where the contestants must remain during the construction phase of the task.
- During the construction phase, the lights in the room go out, leaving the contestants to attempt to blindly create their storks using the equipment they have gathered.
- This task appears to be a hybrid of the Put the most spaghetti in a grapefruit task, and the Painting in the dark task, substituting sculpture in for spaghetti insertion/painting, and allowing the contestants time to gather whatever supplies they wish to use.
Task stats
Points
15
Disquals
0
Attempts
Here's a description of the contestants' attempts. Someone's probably working on collecting some images to add later!
- Sebastian's very small stork appears to be modelled from plasticine, coated in red and white paint, and mounted on a lollipop stick stuck into half an apple. Despite his stork not really being the right shape, and very small, he earns first place.
- Simon's stork ends up having a balloon body, and a (non-attached) wire coathanger neck and head. He earns last place for his effort.
- Julie's very rectangular stork is made from card, and has four pipe cleaner legs. It also has googly eyes which appear to be crying because of all the glue dripping from them. She earns fourth place for her effort.
- Eva decides to collect as much equipment as she can during the first 10 minutes, so she'll have everything on hand she could possibly need. Fortunately, these supplies include a disposable lighter, which she uses to provide a little light. She then tries to make a stork by compressing grated and sliced cheeses together. She earns third place for her effort.
- Martin spends his time sourcing supplies which quite accurately resemble the various parts of the model stork provided, including a watermelon for its body, wooden dowel for its legs, a potato for its head, and a kitchen knife for its beak. He is ready to start cutting the dowel down to size with an electric saw when the lights go out. He tries to do so anyway, but is unable to complete a cut, so has to resort to snapping it under his foot instead. He manages to impale the watermelon on the two wooden legs he has created, then duct tapes the neck on (which it is subsequently revealed was a battery-powered candle, which might have been somewhat useful in the situation). He then picks up and attaches the very sharp kitchen knife to the neck with more tape, and impales an ice cream cornet on a fork stuck into the back of the melon, as a tail. Despite pretty accurately recreating the form of the model stork provided to scale, he earns second place.
(Source credit: Karl Craven)
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