Baking Day - Monday 7th May

Since we didn’t solve everything we arranged to meet up again to iron out the kinks.

To start us off, we made a to do list, addressing the segments that needed to be fixed or worked on. 

However, through this session we managed to resolve the arm issue, but on the other hand, we still couldn’t get them to sit, so, we have had to scrap that idea altogether – in another video I saw that they were snapped in half to sit but it didn’t look aesthetically pleasing.

George and I created our own templates since we were using a cutter that was a bit larger than we originally wanted. George's is on the left and mine on the right. We felt that neither worked particularly well. George's template was let down by the arms being too thin and mine was still too wide throughout.

Having learnt from the previous experiments, we supported the head of the lying down figure with foil, and as another technique we stuck cocktail sticks into the arms, hoping they would help keep the dough up. We also have gingerbread men pushing a rolling pin in our storyboard, which means that they have to lean forward in order to get down to the rolling pin and we did this by wrapping foil round a slice of rolled up bread and sticking cocktail sticks in the arms to hold them up.

The end image is a result of one that doesn't have cocktail sticks in the hands, resulting in the dough being too heavy and slumping down again, making the hands and feet chunky and the disappearance of the neck.

 

Since the previous attempts of the sitting position didn't work, we tried another two. The first being sitting them against a cake tin, but the same problem as before occurred, and the second was wrapping them round the foil. However, the problem with this technique was that they became too curved.

On the left is George's gingerbread man decorated, in the middle is a small cutter made gingerbread man, going to be used for our army, and on the right is my templated gingerbread man. With these we were trying to figure out what the resulting decoration will look like for the clip. We agree on smarties for the larger, but not the army, and a small bow tie on them all.