Genre is the term used to describe the different types of a certain media.
In music there are many different genres and most of these have elements that are common within songs of the same genre. The same goes for music videos, songs of the rock genre will tend to feature longer of the band themselves with closeups on the band members faces and instruments. Dance songs usually have a lot of quick shots of people dancing at a night club with a lot of quick shots and flashing lights to match the feel of being in the nightclub that is being portrayed.
Film also has different genres which, like music, have elements that are common in films of the same genre. For example film noir films usually have a lot of low key lighting, use of shadows and have characters such as a detective and a femme fetal. To summarise, the word genre helps establish a piece of media from another which has different elements
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