Journal #4

When creating or composing a text whether it be read or seen or heard, the most important facet of this process is the genre of the text. It is not only the first part of the process the artist and/or author must keep in mind while creating texts, but also the most relevant. An artist when creating a song is thinking of what song he would like to write, an example of genre. The thing that go into this choice of genre are:
1. Who is the audience?
- Are they teenage girls who like to hear about boys? Is the audience their mother that wants to listen to something that she can drive around to? Or is the audience a gothic college student needing to scream?
2. How do I create this music using what genre?
- Say this is the teenage girl example, the artist can either create a love ballad with the word "baby" 300 times or it can be an upbeat dance tune that they can pretend their hairbrushes are their brooms. Is this the kind of song that the artist wants on the top 10 billboard list or is it for their own enjoyment and they don't have to follow the 2017 pop stereotypes.
3. How does the choice of genre help make the music better?
- If one was to write a love ballad but make the genre heavy death metal, they may not get the audience they want. If the love ballad was a typical, guitar heavy and slow moving song, this may follow the genre barriers of other "love songs."

This music example is just one of the many ways genre plays into textual design, when looking at things like written text the genre can just be talking about who the audience is, and how they perceive it. Most of the texts we read in WEPO are meant for Rhetoricians or students studying things like rhetoric or studying different genres of text, they are not meant for a middle aged accountant. Although the audience is different from genre they assist each other in circulation and distribution in a symbiotic way.  An audience can help circulate the text within the realms of genre, but the distribution methods rely heavily on the genre the text is based in so the targeted audience can receive that text.