From the following article: http://storymind.com/dramatica/genre/1.htm @jhull
The easiest way to assign positions on the Genre Table is simple to make sure that Main Character, Obstacle, Objective Story, and Subjective Story each fall in their own Class. Then, position them all in the same row so that they all fall into Comedy, or all fall into Drama. In this way, your story will have good breadth (because all four Classes are represented) but will have very little depth, because it is all Comedy, or all Drama.
The first way to mix it up, is to move the Structural aspects of Main Character, Obstacle, etc., each into a different row, so that your Main Character is Comedic, but your Objective Story is Dramatic (Like many Marx Brothers movies). In this way, you increase your depth, and can create a number of interesting combinations, such as having Both Main and Obstacle Comedic, but the Objective Story Entertaining, and the Subjective Story Dramatic.
So far, we have loosened things up a bit, but still not enough. The next step is to realize that the four Structural aspects donât have to stay in the same Storytelling category (row) for the entire story. For example, a Main Character might begin in Entertainment, but end up in Drama by the end of the story. In fact, any of the four aspects might âmoveâ through the table any number of times over the course of the story, touching on some or all of the rows.
Melanie Ann Phillips says in her post that you can move through different genres or modes of expression across different signposts for example if my MC is in physics: signpost one can be "How it works from the information mode then move to entertainment through thrills in signpost two then move to physical comedy in signpost three then move to action drama in signpost four"
Have any of you experimented with this technique before?
She also takes of splitting and combining modes of expression but I will leave it at the above text for now.
The genre chart is an interesting thing Iâm exploring in my story telling as of now.