Research

The research that I shall be doing as large and as varied as possible. First of all that I would like to note is that on the Playstation 3 system now there is a service called Vidzone where a large variety of music videos can be streamed onto the system to be viewed and the list is very varied as it contains many different genres of music as well as music and videos from different countries i.e. France, Spain as well as Bollywood videos. It will make good research to compare and contrast how different regions of the world make videos within the same genres. Last thing to add is that a number of asian music videos will also be added as I already have experience with this to a certain degree.

The above is from a Japanese band called Nightmare (ナイトメア) an the song is called The world. The band Nightmare is a 'visual kei' band. Visual kei is a reference to the the style of the band in terms of their looks. A visual kei band is usually some what eccentric in what they wear. This could be seen as a mix between things such as emo, goth, rock etc.

X Japan is a popular band from the days where this style originated as they are regarded as one of the pioneers of the style and are seen as quite big faces in the Japanese music industry as they have sold over 20 million albums. One might say when looking at them that they are comparable to a band such as guns and roses (well that's how I see it anyway).