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	High concept - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		High concept, in movies, is a term typically used to refer to the style and mode of production developed by Hollywood studios in the late 1970s.
		Often in high concept, characters and scenes that at first seem unnecessary are later used to reveal or explain a plot twist.
		High concept movies also have a presence outside of theaters, and usually have soundtrack and music video tie-ins to cross-promote the movie.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/High_concept (352 words)

	High concept (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		High concept, in film, is a term used to refer to the style and mode ofproduction developed by Hollywood studios in the late 1970s.
		The plot of a high concept film can be easily assimilated by audiences, and can usually be described in a sentence or two, andfeatures relatively simple characters and heavy reliance onconventions of genre.
		High concept films also rely on pre-sold properties suchas movie stars to build audience anticipation, and use heavy advertising,market research, and test screenings to ensure maximum popularity.
	www.therfcc.org /high-concept-25621.html (218 words)

	Middle school - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The junior high schools in the United States were mostly replaced with the middle school concept with grades 6th, 7th, and 8th.
		Accompanied with the switch from junior high to middle school was the cancellation of entrance examination needed to enter senior high school.
		This is meant as a hybrid, to ease the transition from elementary school to high school for students.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Junior_high_school (1054 words)

	High concept - InformationBlast
		High concept, in film, is a term used to refer to the style and mode of production developed by Hollywood studios in the late 1970s.
		Stylistically, high concept films tend to be high-tech, crisp, and polished, and usually feature symphonic scoring by composers such as John Williams or James Horner.
		High concept films also rely on pre-sold properties such as movie stars to build audience anticipation, and use heavy advertising, market research, and test screenings to ensure maximum popularity.
	www.informationblast.com /High_concept.html (223 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Wyatt, High Concept
		High concept is definitely connected to two forces which have shaped the market for film powerfully in recent years: the development of new media (such as home video and cable) and the concurrent ownership changes within the film industry.
		High concept films, which could be described as the most market-driven projects in Hollywood, are narrated as much by their marketing as by their ostensible story.
		High concept can be described most fruitfully as a spectrum based upon these three parameters: all Hollywood films fall along the scale, some falling toward the low end of the spectrum (the low concept films), while some fall toward the high end of the spectrum (the high concept films).
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exwyahig.html (5884 words)

	High Concept: Movies and Marketing in Hollywood - Justin Wyatt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Some rather obvious points are perhaps over-emphasized; that high concept is driven by the profit motive and that it frequently places style over substance do not require frequent reiteration.
		High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess.
		is hard to match on the rise of the studio system that paved the way for the high concept movie, but Wyatt plausibly explains the necessity of granting a chapter to the topic, and there are stand-out paragraphs: his potted history of the rise of pay-cable television service HBO is quite fascinating.
	www.culturevulture.net /Books2/HighConcept.htm (588 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		According to High Concept, a Simpson biography by reporter Charles Fleming, Simpson had a $60,000 per month drug habit at the time of his death.
		The concept is that excessive sugar will somehow make someone either "intoxicated" (e.g., Twinkie defense) to the point of diminished judgement or responsibility, or in its milder forms, euphoric.
		The first concept is nonsense and the second perhaps has a nidus of scientific fact in the middle of the cultural concretion.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/h/high-concept.htm (960 words)

	High Concept
		Many people see high concept as a marketing gimmick, and it is true that studios love to cash in on high concept films.
		Because of their catchy ideas, high concept scripts are easy to pitch, visualize, and sell.
		High concept leaves plenty of room for originality, and will give you the means to make your very own, special screenplay better.
	www.absolutewrite.com /screenwriting/high_concept.htm (1353 words)

	Conquering The High Concept
		Simply put, a high concept is an intriguing idea that can be stated in a few words and is easily understood by all.
		Creating a high concept implies an ability to formulate your idea in its most powerful and concise form – to make it as short and as marvelous as possible.
		The high concept is an important part of both the beginning and the end of the process.
	www.scriptforsale.com /james.shtml (1948 words)

	Perceptions of Communication Style and the Self-Concept Theory
		The high school students thought of themselves as being relaxed and attentive, very low on communication, apprehension, and having a positive view of their image of the communication process.
		This would prove from the numbers given to the investigator, that high school students who perceived themselves as being low in apprehensiveness and ranked high in attention, relaxation, and communicator image were also found to consider themselves to be high in self-concept.
		The data that were collected from the high school students from Australia consisted of a younger age group from a socio-cultural setting may be dissimilar to that used in the United States studies.
	people.wcsu.edu /mccarneyh/acad/Maruscsak.html (4107 words)

	High Concept - Low Budget (part 1) - Screenwriting article by William C. Martell
		Most of you probably know what "High Concept" means, but for those of you who don't: High Concept is STORY as star.
		High Concept films can usually be summed up in a single sentence or a single image.
		Having a high concept is no guarantee that your script will be any good, but it will help your script sell, and help it weave its way through the mine-field of development and production.
	www.scriptsecrets.net /articles/highcon.htm (1042 words)

	The World of High Concept Ideas
		A story about a man going through a tough divorce who ultimately reconciles with his wife and returns to his family is not "high concept." It's neither fresh nor is there any obvious potential.
		A story about a guy who wakes up one morning to discover that a tiny alien is living in his head is "high concept." It's a one sentence pitch that you never heard before, with very obvious potential for comedy and adventure.
		The response one is aiming for when pitching is having the listener say, "Why didn't I think of that?" You should also have a great title which conveys the genre of your project and as much information as to w hat the story's about as can be conveyed in a title.
	www.hollywoodlitsales.com /ownwords/stevekaire.shtml (571 words)

	The Knight Agency Blog: What's all this talk about High Concept?
		I think part of the reason we writers have such a difficult time grappling with the phrase is that there are two distinct ways to use it: high concept the noun and high concept the adjective.
		In Hollywood, concept is king because producers hire a team of screenwriters and script doctors and test audiences to make sure that the story has been executed in a way that does justice to that high concept.
		Keep in mind, I haven't said I'm only hot to find high concept, just that a partial submission from a first time author would have to be very high concept for me to be able to shop it out to editors.
	knightagency.blogspot.com /2005/05/whats-all-this-talk-about-high-concept.html (2719 words)

	defective yeti: Comment on Research Day: Gout, Tridents, and High Concept (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A High Concept is one which occurs to a person after the ingestion of alcohol or drugs.
		The crankhead's High Concept for reorganizing the personnel files in the office was to order the files by the individual's eye color.
		High concept movie: one gladiator's struggle to defeat both his gout and a trident-wielding retiarius.
	www.defectiveyeti.com /MT/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=665 (2197 words)

	RANT: HIGH CONCEPT vs. yawn... - Page 6 - IndieTalk - Indie Film Forum
		High Concept is a term that’s been confused, misunderstood and misused by writers for decades.
		That is not what a High Concept film is. What they used is a framing technique that is given prior to pitching your project to prepare the listener for what’s coming.
		The premise or logline is the core of High Concept.
	www.indietalk.com /showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=6769 (2119 words)

	Scriptdude Co - resources for the screenwriter and filmmaker :: ** Hollywood E Ticket
		High Concept is a shark that terrorizes a resort beach on the Fourth of July.
		High Concept is a timely story, whose attractive, saleable potential can be immediately grasped without getting into details.
		High Concept is a "poster pitch"; you can see the poster as soon as you hear the pitch, and you know who's gonna play it.
	www.scriptdude.com /shop/pages.php?pageid=25 (929 words)

	High Concept - Low Budget (part 2) - Screenwriting article by William C. Martell
		The key to a high concept on a limited budget is NOT to go to an alien world, but to bring the alien to OUR world.
		Another method of generating budget friendly high concept ideas is to use interesting locations that you have access to.
		My SKY HIGH script was written to use a 727 jet owned by a college that is very inexpensive to rent.
	www.scriptsecrets.net /articles/highcon2.htm (1182 words)

	The Megahit Movies - HIGH CONCEPT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Kosberg states that, "The essence of high concept is that it is both brief and provocative.
		For the screenwriter, the high concept statement of your project is a one line sentence intended to excite the producer to whom you are trying to sell your story.
		Another way of creating a high concept project is that instead of taking one successful movie and placing it into a different context, link together the titles of two successful movies.
	www.themegahitmovies.com /highconcept.htm (1583 words)

	Halfbakery: Low Concept Film Ratings
		A high concept film can always be described in a succinct one-line blurb that often becomes part of the film's ad campaign.
		The number of words in the concept is divided by 5, fractions are discarded, and the result is subtracted from 10.
		This results a score of the "concept" of the film, ranging from 10 for true high-concept blockbusters (less than 5 words), down to 1 for complex psychological dramas (40 words or more).
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Low_20Concept_20Film_20Ratings?op=nay (887 words)

	Naval Concept Development - High Speed Vessel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		HSV is part of a larger concept for sizing, shaping, operating, and continuously transforming the Navy to meet evolving challenges.
		A preeminent characteristic resident in the emerging High Speed Vessel (HSV) concept is the flexibility to modularly adapt and reconfigure to meet a number of mission profiles from a singular cost effective baseline vessel configuration.
		Future High Speed Vessels may be the preeminent choice for these humanitarian mission areas because of is rapid reaction in speed of delivery as well as its adaptability and modular refitting of cargo.
	www.nwdc.navy.mil /Concepts/Sea_Basing/ConceptsHSV.aspx (2290 words)

	Screenwriting Class: High Concept Sells
		A new writer with a high concept script has a much higher chance of getting producers involved with them than the same writer with a "non-high concept script.
		There is a structure for creating high concept ideas and you can learn it.
		To design this program, I analyzed the High Concept movies of the last five years and searched for the patterns that took a bland idea to a highly marketable idea.
	www.scriptforsale.com /classes/highconceptclass.htm (1288 words)

	Writers Store: The High Concept Advantage to Selling Screenplays by Steve Kaire
		High Concept projects are easier to pitch because they can be communicated in a couple of sentences.
		It is also easier to get meetings and companies to read your material based on a high concept pitch because they understand what your story is about without a lot of explanation on your part.
		These are some of the reasons why High Concept projects sell for more money than non-High Concept projects and why the High Concept approach can cut years off a Film and TV writer’s selling time.
	www.writersstore.com /article.php?articles_id=578 (543 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A High Concept Document is the first step taken in the game design process.
		The High Concept Document is the first piece of documentation to be written in the entire Game Design Process.
		To produce a complete high concept document, input must be received from all key members on the core team.
	www.cs.ubc.ca /spider/forsey/448/Primers/01_HighConceptPrimer.doc (730 words)

	Amazon.com: High Concept : Don Simpson and the Hollywood Cultures of Excess: Books: Charles Fleming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		High Concept is the biography of one of the most hated men in Hollywood, producer Don Simpson.
		Anyway, on to High Concept: I felt the book was poorly written and too often shot for the tabloid instead of the insight.
		Since Don Simpson is credited with the creation of the High Concept picture, he actually provides a compelling icon for the rise and fall of moviemaking in the 80s and 90s.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385486952?v=glance (2283 words)

	Skeptikern.com \| Mitt Liv Som Skeptiker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Den försöker förklara High Concept och illustrerar med exempel och historik inom den amerikanska filmindustrin.
		High Concept ses av Hollywood som det ultimata filmpaketet (med parallell försäljning av t-shirts, CD:s och allt vad det kan vara) men av vissa andra som Hollywoods kreativitetsdöd.
		High Concept är film som går att sälja helt enkelt.
	www.skeptikern.com /archives/000495.html (522 words)

	[Nettime-bold] Black Unicorn: Reflections on "High Concept, Low Tech," M
		High Concept, Low Tech "High Concept, Low Tech" is a term that has been tossed around quite a bit lately.
		What is interesting to me is that the asymmetric attack on Tuesday was not by any understanding "High Concept, Low Tech,"as is being repeatedly reported by this or that expert.
		The high water mark for the lowly funded population of a layman fl operation is now in the hundreds.
	www.nettime.org /Lists-Archives/nettime-bold-0109/msg00915.html (3375 words)

	Screentalk Feature - High Concept
		Of course, there's another element to studio execs, agents, and producers thinking a script is "high concept." I could write a script called Bored Housewife and we'd all get that it's about a bored housewife, but it wouldn't be "high concept." High Concept also implies that at least some of the following elements are present.
		Some say that all the dependence on high concept or blockbusters began with Jaws in 1975, but a quick look at AFI's list of 100 Best Movies of all time reveals this may not be so.
		All of these are certainly high concept movies, blockbusters of their time.
	www.screentalk.biz /articles/highconcept_feature.php (1039 words)

	Commentary: The next high concept--grid computing \| CNET News.com
		Grid computing, also known as utility computing, is a high concept, a computing grand challenge and the "next big thing." What GC is not is a killer application that end-user enterprises need to go out and get.
		Yet the high concept of the computing (and data) grids will succeed in driving technology innovations, leveraging Web services and, ultimately, redefining the limits of the possible.
		As with most new concepts and new technologies, the terminology is in flux, and different collaborators use the language in diverse ways to emphasize the importance of their own contributions.
	news.com.com /2030-7339_3-5087970.html (990 words)

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