If everybody in your class makes the same project, ask what they all assumed. Then don’t assume it.

Identical answers usually mean a shared unspoken premise rather than a shortage of imagination. Everyone read the brief the same way, pictured the same format, and worked hard inside the same box without noticing the box was a choice. Finding that assumption is worth more than working harder, because it opens a space nobody else is standing in. Originality often just means being the one who checked the frame.

Write down three things the brief did not actually require, then break one of them. Describe your plan in one sentence and ask whether anyone else would say the same. Different does not have to mean harder.