Welcome to Jamaica

Final For Fx, Trix, and Pix FA 2021

Music Sampled - Welcome to Jamrock by Damian Marley

This short animation uses found film of Jamaica in the 1930s-60s to manipulate the camera’s ethnographic points of view. Inspired by Rachel Moseley-Wood's essay "The Other Jamaica" which uses Damian Marley's controversial song "Welcome to Jamrock" to demonstrate the juxtaposed views of Jamaica via tourism and marginalized Jamaicans.

This film was made by sourcing videos from archive.com and youtube, exporting frames, image tracing in Adobe Illustrator, masking in Adobe Photoshop, and painting in Adobe Fresco.