What is Genre?

Genre is a key concept used in the Media, particularly in the music industry. When creating a music video we have to consider this in great detail. Everyone has varied tastes in music; this could be due to their age, personality, gender or just a preferred sound.  

During this process of creating a music video I will need to carefully pick a song belonging to a particular genre of music, and then produce the video according to that genre's conventions and target audience. A music genre is a conventional category that identifies pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. Genres can be split into many different categories examples such as ‘indie’, ‘R&B’, ‘Rap’, ‘Pop’ and ect. All these varying genres have different trends that change over a period of time. There is also something called a ‘Sub Genre’ this is where the many genres can be broken down further an example of this would be Rock, which is a main genre
metal is a sub genre of rock because it took influences from rock.
‘Thrash Metal’ is a sub genre of rock & metal because it took influences from both to create the unique sound that became Thrash metal.  

The mind map below goes into further detail about different music genres and there sub genres.