Genre - Definition, Purpose And Tips For Models

The term genre is well known to performers and models , but also for consumers of films, music and literature. It simplifies the understanding of artistic content and serves to categorise works of art of all kinds. What else is worth knowing?

What is a genre?

A genre is a category of music, computer game or literary work. Typical examples are horror films, documentaries, westerns, historical novels, first-person shooters or hip hop. These are all genres with their own individual characteristics. Genres are also used in the modelling world. Plus size modelling or fitness modelling, for example, are each an original genre.

The genre is used for differentiation and marketing

Genres categorise different works of art immediately after their creation - or even before. The assignment to a specific category can be based on aesthetic-artistic, but also spatial or temporal characteristics (such as Bollywood films, landscape painting or baroque music). In addition, by assigning a film or other artistic product to a specific genre, producers can tailor the purpose of marketing the product to a specific target group. Example: Some consumers specifically search for film comedies and are therefore only interested in films that belong to this film genre.

Core genre - when the genre term is formative

The term core genre is often used in the film and television industry. This refers to a production that fulfils all the characteristics of a genre in an exemplary manner. Genre categorisation plays a particularly active, formative role in the production, consumption and marketing of core genre productions . Interesting in this context: you can search for specific genres on online platforms such as Amazon Prime or Netflix. For example, you can enter search terms such as ‘action’ in the search mask on Amazon Prime. On Netflix, the genre is indicated by a code - 7442 stands for adventure.

The most popular genres for actors in the film industry

Quite a few actors specialise in a certain genre in the film and television industry as soon as they start their career. The most popular and promising genres for actors include
- thriller
- science fiction
- documentary
- horror
In contrast to the declining popularity of the western and musical genres, all of these genres have seen a steady increase in popularity in recent years - in other words: more productions, more sales, but also more competition for actors.

Why genres are important for models

Models should consider early on which genre they would like to work in. Broad-based models are suitable for jobs in different genres such as beauty, tattoo or erotic. Specialised model types, on the other hand, only accept assignments from a single category - such as beard or plus size models.

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