Genre

Sub Genres and Hybrid Genres

Yesterday in Media I learnt that Genre has a deeper meaning. At the beginning of the lesson I gained a better understanding of what Genre is and the Genre cycle. The genre cycle is what keeps the audience interested and satisfied. This is because if the same Genre was displayed at the cinema, not many people would go and watch as it would be predictable and dull for the audience. Because of this, the writers have to study and make sure they are picking the right Genre to make a film so the audience is still amused. At the moment, superhero films seem and are assumed as the most popular and acknowledged with the current audience. Film makers have recently introduced the new Batman and Spider man which are arguably similar - Even though they have different characters the film companies have to keep a familiar story line so the audience are comforted whilst watching the movie. However, they have to make sure that they introduce new twists in the story line to entertain and engage the audience whilst making the film exciting. 

We then went on to looking at Sub Genres and Hybrid Genres: 

A 'Sub Genre' is a Genre within a genre, for example - a common Genre is horror. However, it could be split into sections such as religion, monsters and general slasher films. 

A 'Hybrid Genre' is when genres mix together to make a film. An example of this is Batman, even though it is considered science fiction, it could also be considerd a "love story" as it portrays romance throughout.


Learning about Genre has helped me gain a better understanding of what Genre is. I have also accepted that if you look into Genres in detail, the word loses its definition because nowadays Genres are mixed and are rarely classified as one because they have too many aspects of different Genres. Overall, this has given me knowledge on how to classify films into more than one and different groups.