What is genre and hybrid genre?
Genre:
Genre is something which categorises a film into different sections depending on the criteria. For example a horror film must follow the guidelines and traits of any other horror film i.e. the film would need to be scary to be categorised under horror. Genre allows audiences to identify the type of film they are going to watch, and based on this they can determine whether they will enjoy the film or not.
Hybrid genre:
A hybrid genre is something which mixes two or more genres into a film, this allows film makers to gain a larger target audience. There are currently many hybrid genres, one of the most popular current hybrid genre being a Rom/com, meaning a romantic comedy. This type of film would follow traits of a romantic film and of a comedy film, so romance with a bit of humour. This means that this would attract fans of comedy from one section of their audience target and on the hand will attract audiences interested in romance. Also, this would then attract a male and female audience as the females would enjoy the romance side of the film, where as the male audience would enjoy the humour aspect of the film.
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