Writers Diaries: Rambling on High Concept Versus Low Concept

[@steampunkdesperado8999]

Sharknado, OMG! Funny, to my mind I always associated "high concept" with something literary. I guess I completely misunderstood that.

[@RadioRetrofuture]

I mean, it could be. Like I said, High Concept works well for exploration of complex topics. Then again, you always need to strike a balance between the two.

[@GioTummy3463]

Perhaps we could say that with high concept the world-building is, in a sense, the main character 🦀

[@RadioRetrofuture]

I depends on what you mean with world building? In the end, world building is a tool I want to make a anatonomy video on High Concept vs Low Concept. That's gonna be a project.

[@JPStaszak]

Oh god, there's a fifth one... anyway, I digress. As I said in the server, I maintain that the discussion of character-driven vs plot-driven is just low-concept vs high-concept, the nomenclature is just different (wrong). Additionally, the term "plot-driven" is a misnomer as the plot IS driven, it cannot drive itself, unless one takes into account the world that exists within the story and the circumstances within that world and mislabel them as the plot. That makes no sense to me since the plot is just the sequence of events that happen within a story, regardless of whether the characters are influencing those events or reacting to them. Side note, they completely dropped the ball with the Borg. They went from an absolutely terrifying enemy that pushed the Federation out of it's stagnation and forced it to take a more aggressive role for the sake of survival, to a waste of special effects and makeup.

[@NeidlichesSchwert]

Talk about rambling.