FMP Collaboration Week: Combining Ideas

We were put into small groups with lens based media students for a collaboration project for the week. We were each asked to bring in the following items:

• A sock
• A torch
• String
• 2 different buttons
• A sponge
• Blutack
• Rubber bands
• A book
• Paper clips
• A map
• Masking tape
• A ball
• A plastic bottle
• A box

We started to play around with the materials whilst discussing our separate projects with each other, my project is on women in advertising, one group member's project is on oppression. whilst another's is on dreams, the other's is on music, and the other on sports channel branding.

While we were playing with the items, we found that we started to stuff the bottles with the socks we have brought, this .immediately lead to the expression, "put a sock in it". We were quite amused by this, we then thought of the expression, "bottle it up", then after placing the bottle in a box, we said "boxed in" All of these are expressions that we physically symbolised through using items.

So we managed to make this project suit 3 of our separate projects, but how are we going to make it fit in with the other members' projects?