Today I learnt that there is much more to genre than there would first seem...
Firstly - to recap - there is a Genre Cycle; this is when a certain type of genre becomes outdated and new twists need to be written into the storyline to keep the target audience interested and to ensure that they keep going to the cinema. Also, once a genre starts to be outdated, new genres will come into fashion. This will then mean a new string of films will be made in the same genre. For example, at the moment, there has been a string of marvel superhero films (The Amazing Spiderman, Marvel's The Avengers, Captain America: The First Avenger) yet, people will start to get bored of these films - as they will know what to expect every time they go to the cinema. This will mean a new trend or genre of film will start to be made.
Sub Genre: A Sub Genre is different genres within one genre; for example you can break Science Fiction down into different sub genres:
-Time travel
-Aliens
-Future
-Space
-Robots
-Technology
Sub Genres then allow you to categorise films more specifically and accurately.
Hybrid Genres: This is when you merge more than one genre together. This can be done with every film - for example: at first you may think that The Lord of the Rings is an Adventure film. However if you were to pull it apart, you could argue that is a love story or a action thriller. The reason that you can do this is because there are so many different elements to the storyline that you could choose any to categorise it.
If I were able to write my own hybrid genre film it would have to be an action sci-fi black comedy military romantic musical drama. The reason for this is that I do not think that it has never been done before (and probably never will) and I think would make a very interesting film and you would have a lot to work with when thinking about elements such as the storyline and the characters.
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