![]() What if scientists built dinosaurs from preserved DNA? ( Jurassic Park).A one-line description is enough to draw people’s attention: These concepts are visual in just a few words, they spark people’s imaginations. The conflict and genre are often self-evident. Many high concepts focus on primal emotions and situations, such as survival or finding love. They often wrestle with what-if questions and tend to contain built-in appeal while conveying a fresh or original idea-or a new twist on an old idea. High concepts pack a lot of punch in just a few words. What’s so interesting about that? This is what makes low concept a harder sell it often needs to be worked into a fuller premise to hold any real interest. Here are some examples of low concepts: two teenagers fall in love a widow struggles with grief a detective solves a crime. However, if well executed, low-concept stories can perform well. They are more difficult to pitch or sell because they’re harder for audiences to envision. Nor do they appear on their surfaces to be particularly unique or compelling. Low concepts don’t have built-in conflicts and antagonists. However, these stories often contain more character development and nuance than their high-concept counterparts. Low concepts are simple and can come off as generic or mundane at first glance. There are two types of concepts: low concepts and high concepts. People often confuse the words concept and premise and use them interchangeably, but they have different meanings, which are important for storytellers to understand.Ĭoncept tells us what a story is about-the core idea of a story. It’s certainly not the only way for a story to be born, but identifying a clear concept or premise early on can lend clarity as you work your way through the composition of a story. Writers often start with a concept or premise as the initial idea for a story. These are hooks used for pitching and marketing they draw people’s attention, get them interested in a story, and compel them to buy it. Most audiences are first introduced to stories as concepts, premises, or loglines. ![]() ![]() Today’s post includes excerpts from What’s the Story? Building Blocks for Fiction Writing, chapter eleven: “Concept, Premise, and Loglines.” Enjoy! How can you put story concept and premise to use?
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