Quote: Marc P @ June 2 2009, 4:23 PM BSTAll Drama is about life.
But not all comedy is the Good Life.
Think about it.
Low concept V high concept Page 4
Quote: David Bussell @ June 2 2009, 4:38 PM BSTBut not all comedy is the Good Life.
Some comedy was The High Life.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ June 2 2009, 4:40 PM BSTSome comedy was The High Life.
And wasn't there some drama that lived on Mars?
In the final analysis, does this really matter? It's only a bit of industry jargon imported from America, like 'precinct', 'forward (or audience) facing', and other appalling assaults on the language by people who should know better.
Quote: Marc P @ June 2 2009, 4:23 PM BSTI think we should book a hall at Oxford and have a proper debate!
Don't you have to be a racist American shock jock or glamour model to debate there?
Quote: Micheal Jacob @ June 2 2009, 5:24 PM BSTIn the final analysis, does this really matter?
If you're going to get pedantic on our asses, does anything discussed on any forum matter?
Quote: chipolata @ June 2 2009, 5:26 PM BSTIf you're going to get pedantic on our asses, does anything discussed on any forum matter?
Well, what kicked this off was someone wondering what the terms meant, and what I was suggesting just now is that it isn't really important to know in the grand scheme of things. That's not to say it isn't good to debate. Just as it isn't important to know exactly what a chipolata is to have a lively discussion about sausages. Your asses and your oxen are safe from assault.
Quote: Micheal Jacob @ June 2 2009, 5:24 PM BSTIn the final analysis, does this really matter? It's only a bit of industry jargon imported from America, like 'precinct', 'forward (or audience) facing', and other appalling assaults on the language by people who should know better.
Yo! I'm down with you there!
Word.
Quote: Micheal Jacob @ June 2 2009, 5:24 PM BSTIn the final analysis, does this really matter? It's only a bit of industry jargon imported from America, like 'precinct', 'forward (or audience) facing', and other appalling assaults on the language by people who should know better.
Well, I think it does, as Johnny's original post was due to some ProdCo suggesting he write low-concept rather than high, in the current climate.
I've had similar feedback too, so it's nice to know what they actually mean, if only so we're not wasting time writing something!
Dan
Maybe it's just a made up way of trying to nicely tell you to get lost? 
Quote: Micheal Jacob @ June 2 2009, 2:38 PM BSTThe genesis of The Good Life was thinking about what someone would do when he was about to turn 40 and wanted to escape a dead-end job and change his life (just as One Foot in the Grave was about a man being retired and finding things to fill his life up). So I'd say both were low in concept.
Isn't the difference that Tom decided to do something that both limited and drove the storylines? I would say that is pretty much the definition of high concept.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ June 2 2009, 7:17 PM BSTMaybe it's just a made up way of trying to nicely tell you to get lost?
Well, you know as well as I do, us both being on that BBC blacklist that Micheal assures us doesn't exist...
Dan
They give with one hand and take with the other. It's like one of those abusive relationships on Jeremy Kyle; "I love her to bits, but I keep smacking her about."
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ June 2 2009, 7:22 PM BSTIt's like one of those abusive relationships on Jeremy Kyle; "I love her to bits, but I keep smacking her about."
Jeremy Kyle makes for an interesting education. I feel particularly enlightened to discover that if you sleep with your partner's sister/brother/nan/whatever, it is apparently just a 'mistake'. Like 'whoops, how did that happen?'
well this is getting good now, wouldn't you say.
Personaly speaking, as a "high concept writer", I think this thread must be almost exhausted by now. From my newly elavated position as a "high concept writer" I must say that although I am of course highly delighted that my genius has been recognised at last the only downside is that they still turned the sodding thing down.
i don't think this genius thing is all it's cracked up to be.
I'm going to re-send one of my old scripts to them, hopefully that might be one that is low concept enough for them. Wish me luck.
J26 (high concept writer)