Planning: Building knowledge on Genre

My favourite types of Genre has a range from Horrors, to Comedy, to Romance.

Genre is established through codes and conventions. Code gives meaning, but a code only becomes a convention when it is repeatedly used.

Terminology:
Sub genre; two genres together, for example Romantic Comedies.
Hyrbidity; a mix of Genres.

Genre Theorists:
Hodge & Kress 1988; defines typical forms of texts which link kinds of producer, consumer, topic, medium, manner and occasion. Genre controls the behaviours of producers of such texts so the expectations are met of potential consumers.
Steve Neale 1990; Hollywood generic themes are too meet the audiences meanings and pleasure and also argues that pleasure is derived from "repetition" and "difference".

When creating my magazine cover I shall pick a Genre and then do research into its history to help develop my magazine cover further. Researching into different Music magazines will allow me to get inspiration for when I create my own magazine cover. I shall do another post applying genre theory as i now have the knowledge.