Understanding Genre

To a modern audience, genre, is merely a means of categorising a film, a way of allowing you to find which film you are looking for more easily, making film more accessible. By separating films into a type of genre it allows you to explore film in more detail, experiencing each genre. Which essentially allows you the freedom of choice, the choice to choose which genre is your favourite so you can only watch that genre, thus, TV channels such as 'Sky Movies Comedy' and 'Sky Movies Drama' are created for people who prefer one genre.

However, the creation of genre (type in french) was due to a whole other benefit. Genres were created due to audience appeal, and media development. Initially in the creation of Hollywood the most popular genre was Western/Cowboy movies, although proven popular Hollywood came across a clear problem: that eventually films would come repetitive. Thus, the sub-genres of Westerns were created, adding exciting twists such as romance, or humour to entice an audience. Interestingly with the incoming technology and new CGI technologies genres such as Science fiction were created, to entice a newer modern audience, yet channel's such as 'The Classics' still exist, suiting an audience who prefer older film.

Even with all the genres currently existing however, constantly new sub-genres are created, to entice wider audiences. With more films being created the audience are becoming less and less shocked due to typical conventions, thus, in order to keep the audience entertained production companies are being forced to mix genres, fusing typical story lines to shock and audience. When more than one genre are combined this is called becoming hybrid.