Soundies

Soundies were early versions of the music videos. It's a three minute musical films. It was first produced between 1940 - 1946 in New York, Chicago, and Hollywood. It often used to include short dance sequences. Completed soundies were generally released within a few months of their filming. Several production companies filmed the soundies short, some of these of which are: Globe Productions (1940-41), Cinemasters (1940-41), Minoco Productions (1941-43), RCM Productions (1941-46), LOL Productions (1943)e.c.t...
Soundies covered all genres of music, from classical to big-band swing, patriotic songs e.c.t...
Beginning in 1941 Soundies experimented with expanding its format, and filmed comedy.

Research Ideas

There are a number of different ways to research from the audience in what type of music genres they like or have an interest in.
Here are three:
1) Questionaires/slips: You could send these quick slips of questionaires that won't be that time consuming, just stating what their interests in music are. Send these to friends/people around school etc...
2) Internet poll: To get a variety of different people answering, you could set up a poll in music forums and different websites (music related)and see what people think.
3) Voice recording: This is a quick and simple way of just getting people's opinions of their interests in music genre, there also would'nt be the question of the people being conscious of their apperance as opposed to if you were to record them using a video camera.