Reggae

First Jamaican recording studio open in 1951 "Mento Music" it play mostly (folk dance music). Before this time Jamaican didn't have a radio station people had to lesion to music from the United States from New Orleans. They would lesson to jazz, r&b and rock music the USA. Poor African people from Jamaican that could not afford a band for their party, had to content them self with these "sound system" also know as disc jockey.
Soon this was picking up all over Jamaican and became a social
commentary in the 1960s and as the year went by this form of music was transfer into day reggae.
The word i had to identified was "Reggae" and describe in a 30 second video. In the 1960s Jamaica identify a ragged a style of dance music. The very first song that had a reggae feel came out in 1968 by an artist Tosts that song was Do the Reggae. Reggae mixed the beat of ska with the more mobile bass lines of rock. Jamaican have slang in their reggae lyrics the could be imported and help you under stand what their talking about. when you hear the word "Jah" they are talking about their god and "Ganja is slang for marijuana.
Reggae took off when the legend Bob Marley came around in the 70s. His style of lyrics talked about love, peace, power and religion. Bob, was in a group called the Wailers. In 1972 on there first album they released the song called I Shot the Sheriff that has history behind it. The title means cop-killer at this time that song was the number one hit in Jamaican. In (1973) the necks big song was No Woman No Cry. This man Bob Marley, was a reggae super start love writing reggae music there was never a bad song he wrote over 300 songs until his young death from cancer in 1981.
In my video i choose the number one hit by legend Bob Marley I Shot the Sheriff. He is also my favorite sing of all times so this Assignment was essayer because i knew a lot about the back around already. I used the program photoshop and edited photo and transfer them into after affect. I use many elements through out my video that could relate to Jamaican giving you hits that's it has a reggae feel to it. I used the Jamaican flag many simbly such as drums a lion exc. The raggae colors are red, green, yellow so i try to use the in my video. Also you will see my hero come and go through out the video. Some times I wish I could see how far Bob would make it if he was still around to day. After affect is a very hard but fun program at the same time. you will see as the video gose on i start to use effect and have more fun with the work. I also wanted to have thing that match the song and try to match the beats.
I would like to thank you picking reggae for me to do it was a lot of fun was i would have to say this is work in prograss.