Skrillex's 'Make It Bun Dem'

The song I have chosen as an idea for our music video is Skrillex's 'Make It Bun Dem' featuring Damian 'Jr. Gong' Marley. The music video (left) was first released on September 6th 2012 via Skrillex's channel and the audio came out on April 16th 2012. The music video lasts for 3 minutes and 38 seconds. The genre to this particular music video is a mix between reggae and dub step known as reggae step, which presents a very funky tone and allows two things completely different from each other to come together. As the music video is 3 minutes and 38 seconds, the music is at quite a fast pace because it is dubstep but it tends to vary when the reggae comes into the mix. The lyrics came from Damian Marley's single "Welcome to Jam Rock"  


This song is a narrative story. The music video (above) explains the story of an elderly Native american and his son who are about to get evicted from their house by US police. So the man conducts a smudging ritual in which he smudged red paint over his son and handed him a roach. The son returns outside and a golden eagle bursts from his chest and surrounds him. As the police are about to knock on their door, the chief's henchmen give him the middle finger and leaves him to do the evacuation himself. The door appeared to be locked and so he went round the back door and found the son with the eagle (pictured on the music video above) standing in the middle looking at the chief, and then the eagle suddenly attacked the police chief and in the final shot of the official music video shows the father surrounded by three canines with no sign of what happened to the chief or the son.

With all of the evidence I have from the audio soundtrack, the music video and genius.com, I'd reckon that the overall meaning of the song would represent that the artists likes to create havoc and playing music, resulting in everyone enjoying themselves, no matter what the police or the government thinks. Another meaning, in contrast with the other meaning would be to always believe in your gods and in so you would have every success you could have.

There are many impressions that make me want to describe what the song means to me. This particular song, when I first heard it, almost made me want to dance along to.

With all of the effects and people used in this particular video, I think we will be unable to copy this same music video because it would be way too complicate to make. So on my storyboard, I have come up with an alternate video that is similar to the official music video but contains less people and has more meaning.