Collage- reggae genre

Below is a collage of iconography and screen shots from the bashment/dancehall genre of music. I have placed together pictures that correspond with the West indian theme perfectly. It is evident through the mise en scene that the producers of the videos are attempting to target a young audience as most of the artists shown such as Rihanna, are under the age of 30. I personally do not believe that this genre of music would be approprtiate to produce a music video from because the lyrics tend to be of explicit and sexual nature, and we wouldn't be able to achieve that West Indian theme through setting as the climate we live isn isn't exotic.




here is an example of a Caribbean video, filmed in Jamaica: