Our Found Art theme was the influence by the media. We made our display out of four construction boxes to resemble a television set. This is appropriate because media was mainly influencing people through television shows. The way we set up the boxes is like the show “The Brady Bunch” with the different windows. “The Brady Bunch” was a very influential show during the 1970s-1990s because there was a moral or lesson for the viewers to learn at the end of each episode. In each window, we placed different items such as a clock to represent the show "60 minutes", an Elmo and ScoobyDoo stuffed animals, VHS, an old remote control, a wheel of fortune toy, etc.
The show "60 minutes" was a very popular show for families to get their daily news during primetime. The Elmo and Scooby Doo stuffed animals represent the kid shows shown in this time period. Each episode would have a "lesson" at the end, making these shows educational. The wheel of fortune was an extremely popular show shown during the afternoon. Game shows like these caused people to change their leisure time activities from going outside to staying in and watching the show.
The majority of our items belong to our group members. However, for the rabbit ears/antannae for our "TV" we had to ask our parent's coworker.
If I were to do this project again, I would start out by asking more people in advance for items. I found that as one of our biggest problems. We all expected to have the items somewhere in our household, but when we searched last minute we were not able to find as many items as we wanted/expected to.
The advice I would give next year's class is make sure you really have everything planned before you do the setting up in class. Also, I would highly advise them to do plenty of research.
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