What is genre

What is genre?

There is many different film genres including

Genre type        program that relates 

Sci-fi                   dr who, ET

Drama               coronation street

Action                mission impossible

Comedy             school of rock

Horror               saw

Crime                 crime scene investigation 

Adventure        harry potter

Thriller              batman

The term genre is used to categorize creative media including writings and speeches and film/music

There are two main genres which are fiction and non fiction which are sub groups that different media formats fit in two such as batman which is a film that would fit into the fiction category. There are further lines that can be divided such as fiction that has sub groups such as poetry and drama. Each song and film. Genre the word is from the French language meaning kind or sort. Genre separates visual, spoken, written or audio art forms in to different groups. In sort it is a ‘’classification system’’ that is used to sort out difference in the theme and story. There are many elements that can determine the type of genre a film or music track fits into such as the storyline, the tone and the content.

There are book genres as well such as epic, tragedy, comedy, novel, short story. Genre is defined as a ‘’kind, category, or sort and is a old French word’’. Genre makes the classification of different media types easy because every type of song and video fits in to some category. so in short genre splits media in to different groups by there content and artist style. 

There are many music genres such as

Genre type        artist that relates

Rock                   acdc

Pop                     take that

Jazz                     Michael bubble

Dance                 club land

R&B                    pit-bull

Other genres - music

There are many music genres that exist around the world and are born out of different cultures and languages. In each of the genres there are sub groups that are more precise for example in pop music there is sub groups like dance- pop and country- pop and electro- pop and in rock there is alternative rock and post- rock.

Other music genres.

Rhythm and blues – funk, soul, boogie, disco,

Hip hop – alternative hip hop, grime, reggae

Folk – contemporary folk, American folk, techno-folk

Electronic – ambient, electroacustic, house

Country – blues country, country rock

Blues – blues rock, jazz blues