Taranaki Survivor

Note:  This is the entire 20 episode run of the classroom internet competition that was run in the room called 'Taranaki Survivor' it was a tribute/parody/copy of the 'reality TV show' from the US.  I applied for a position in March 2015 at another school, where I was unsuccessful but I realised that if I took that job and lost my rights to the domain name then I would loose all the work from the show and wanted a seperate location to house the work that was not the domain of my school.   The opening sequence was shot with Final Cut Pro and a High Spec PC.   The episodes were then shot with iPad2 by the students themselves.  I would then finish each episode by having the 'vote off' by the losing team which would be recorded by myself and 'green screened'.  The full competition is on the tab above.  I have run versions of the competition in my class since 2008 but this was the best full season.

Episode Twenty: The Jury Vote.
Summary:  It was finally over.  After two full school terms, twenty episodes and eliminations it all came down to this - Caro vs. Harry and the final jury vote.  In this all eliminated players, right back to Jayden who had been eliminated in Round One, came back to cast one final vote, for the winner of the 2015 Taranaki: Survivor Competition.   One by one players voted - there was the option for players to wear if they choose to wear a mask to disguise themselves.  Some choose to, others were very open about who they were voting for.  Abby, the only player to vote against Harry, who did so twice, voted for him to win.  Caro had double crossed a number of players en route to the final and this may have been a factor in ing the final vote which Harry ended up winning to claim the Grand Final Prize and gain the title of 2015 Taranaki Survivor Champion.  This left Caro reflecting on decisions that had been made: should she have taken Mackenna to the final with her? Did she regret her game playing during the episodes? Those questions remained unanswered and will have to wait until Taranaki Survivor 2016: Middle School Vs. Senior School.

Episode Nineteen: Grand Final - Part One/Two/Three
Summary: The final four consisted of Harry, Caro, Zariah and Mackenna.  In the final challenge they had to claim puzzle bags from across the school.  When they had recovered all four bags they then had to solve a puzzle by completing a phrase.   There would be two rounds, the winner of the first would receive an advantage of a rest before the final.  At stake was a place in the final two.

In the first qualifying round Zariah struck early trouble three times collecting the wrong bag and having to go back to the start.  As the challenged progressed Mackenna had a clear lead.  She claimed to have solved the puzzle, with Caro hot on her heels.  However Mackenna while she had solved the puzzle did not have it in the right order - as she went to re-order it Caro solved her puzzle and stole the prize of making it into the final.
 


In the second round Mackenna was keen to make up for her miss in the first.  However it was not the case as Harry claimed a come from behind victory in the second round putting the final immunity competition of Caro Vs. Harry.


Both player were feeling the affects of two intense rounds before the finals  Both also knew that ultimately if they wanted to make the final they need immunity to make sure of it.  Once again the competition was decided by seconds - Harry was able to retrieve all the bags of puzzle pieces before Caro but she had made a decision to solve the puzzle as she was running towards the finish line.  This strategy paid off in spades as she made up time in challenge to ultimately claim the final victory.  A double vote followed - in the first Zariah received votes from Mackenna, Caro and Harry and sent her home in a 3:1 margin.   There was another twist as the final vote then took place immediately afterwards.  Caro was safe having had immunity from the final challenge which left her with a crucial decision to make - would she take Harry, her greatest rival or would she take Mackenna to the final jury vote.  In the end she decided to take Harry with her eliminating Mackenna and making her the final member of the jury.

Please note the rest of the season can be viewed from the 'Taranaki Survivor: Tab