Instruction
Create mind maps for the three genres you will apply to your genre-less story.
Purpose
Apply conflict, add characters, and create a narrative arc where people change and they’re is a resolution.
My Interpretation
I decided to pick the genres of mystery, horror, and science fiction.
For mystery, the conflict arises in a person finding themselves living in a dulled out world, only the festival of color being vivid, but they detest it. The realization of this strange behavior shocks the character, leading them, to investigate themselves as, in a parallel B plot, another investigator catches wind of rumors being spread that the yearly summer festival is haunted by a ghost. The resolution is when both parties develop their own clues and the reader makes the connections that the main subject of the story was a ghost who died at the festival one year, the investigator finds nothing but this information.
For horror, the conflict is in man vs. beast. A town is terrorized by a terrible monster (human or otherwise) that sees in grays and vivid colors only. It hunts within the gray, the areas removed from the vivid world. The monster often finds itself coming across the color festival, becoming scared and fleeing from what it deems as dangerous (too many hunting humans). Resolution lies in the beast being killed.
For science-fiction, the world is destroyed and our main character is a survivalist learning the ropes of this newly changed world. Aliens have invaded and have taken the minds of many human, making them slaves who only serve the purpose to find more human slaves and work. The slaves/aliens have learned that humans are drawn to thriving civilizations, so they create fake scenes of grandiose fun and joy (the color festival) to trick unsuspecting humans into the area where they can attack and enslave them. The resolution lies in the explanation of this new world, a bittersweet continuation of humans living on regardless of adversity.