Cultural Myth Stop Motion | Two Possible Narrative Solutions

Our mind map had four ideas that we fell in love with - profanity, hysteria, happiness, and constant validation. We then spoke of each of these ideas to develop something that could turn into a better narrative or an interesting piece. We agreed we liked the idea of Social Media affecting our happiness. I took his to mean: "the notion that social media is affecting our lives and we use it to validate ourselves."

My first narrative is a derrivation of the real myth, Pandoras Box. Pandora's Box revolves around the idea that by unleashing the box, you are allowing bad things to escape into the world. In my version, the box is the phone in the video. Crumpled up images would begin flowing out of the phone. They would continue to "un" crumple. Each one could be a thin model, an image of somebody wanting something else, and etc. We would than have to demonstrate the change in emotion - a frowning face, maybe made of another material. Anxiety is uncrumpling from the phone. Validation and Anxiety explained.

Another way to approach the situation would be to focus less on the validation of ourselves, and instead focus on the changing world and our desperation to keep up in social media. Our desperation takes away from our happiness. There's a presence of rebellion. We'd start with a large image of a  younger innocent model/celebrity. It would fall onto the word happiness - spelled with some type of particle. As it falls, all these drawings / collage images begin following on top, representing new changing pieces of her. She's no longer seen as herself, and the word happiness is destroyed.

Visual / Technical approach. I'm interested in having happiness spelled out in parts and physically ruining it by dropping objects on top. I am considering sound effects for the falling of this object that make it slightly humorous. I also like the idea that the pieces are from a collage and are placed on a thicker colored paper around them.

Awesome Inspiring Examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJh4nzf-0hI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MBUgz5mJ2M

Define Cultural Myth -- with your partner come up with 4 possible narrative solutions. To arrive at this, go through a brainstorming processes, together create a mind-map that you will photograph and include on your blog as part of your process.

From this mindmap -- each partner come up with 2 possible narrative solutions for your chosen Cultural Myth. Describe the narrative though a short two paragraph essay. Paragraph 1 introduces the narrative. Paragraph 2 describes visuals and technical approaches. Research & note example artists and their work.