Jess:

Reggae a paradoxical genre because upbeat but often discusses tragic issues – e.g. Pass the Duchy

Protest culture becomes pop culture

Desensitised to war and brutality due to media coverage

An irony in recreating video of war footage

Fictionalisation of true stories – I like this wording

Would be interesting to use imagery from fetishising films (Good Morning Vietnam, Apocalypse Now, Platoon etc.)

Think about context – where would you want it to be seen, and by whom?

Berti:

Montage used to represent timelines – Can represent a longer timeline than just a war

Reggae/popular music trivialises hardships/bad times – Even though it’s protesting against that same war

Is there a similar protest culture to current or recent wars? (As there was with Vietnam) – Iraq or Afghanistan – do they have their own protest songs?

Fi:

History of song? – so jolly, very disturbing

Feel conflicted with moral questions of pairing song and video

Questions of how it links to memory – Yours or others? – ‘Cultural memory’ feel like I understand

Use another reggae song ’54-46 Was My Number’ and recreate idea – or is this too obvious?

Use other pop culture imagery – from cinema

Use more graphic imagery?

Jenny:

Expected something more graphic since it was Vietnam – some horrible images (Napalm) – How graphic can an artwork be – death and suffering?

Could make use of cinema clips, other elements of this fetishistic media culture

Could include an excerpt from Guy Debord’s ‘Society of the Spectacle’

I didn’t communicate my thoughts as well as I wanted to, so need to be better prepared – Did not verbalise that my choice of one clip and one song was to show how easily montage technique set to music creates nostalgia, fetishises, mystifies.

Should nail down key words, phrases to help describe process and concept.