Word: concepting
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...concept and execution, Chop Suey is a marvelous paradox. It is an “autobiographical documentary” about the world of high fashion, of glitzy entertainment, of celebrity—essentially of people who create and inhabit sublime artificial realities. Bright colors, strange costumes and set pieces command its filmic landscape. Fabulous and freakish personalities float past the lens. We lucky spectators get nice heaping eyefuls of homoerotic icons, fashion designers, super athletes, bright shining Stars, surfer dudes, tragically hip youth, quadriplegic artists. Everything is ready for its close-up; everything is so chock full of life...
...only consider myself an artist in the loosest sense, since I play violin and piano, so this was the first time I’d even been asked to act as an artist in that capacity, to find something visually stimulating. It’s was a very interesting concept, and different mode of thinking for me. It was a really unique, original concept—there’s never really anything like this on the Harvard campus...
...drab gray walls, some divided from others and some even dangling in midair, in an otherwise dingy and barren room. According to Ceruzzi, “I wanted to be able to take the objects out of the bags if necessary, to see them better, but still preserve the concept of all of the objects fitting within a certain space.” Bare lightbulbs on the ceiling illuminate the sections of the display, which are partitioned into square grids with masking tape, each grid marking the space that a particular bag occupies. The asymmetrical geometric arrangement of the bags...
...casting, of course, is the ultimate factor in creating a mixture of personalities unique enough to keep angsty teens awake for the show. Exactly what the casting directors are looking for is as vague a concept as that of what the show is really about. Some of it is quite clear, however. “Matching a personality with another, usually contrasting one is the most important thing. One hole fills another.” Many have complained over the years that the show has a racial or sexual “quota” for each season. The response...
...other words, is 21st century TV. Therein lie its pleasures and its risks. The real-time concept is a dramatic answer to reality TV's aesthetic of immediacy and edge. (Next year NBC will air a real-time Julia Louis-Dreyfus sitcom, tentatively titled 23:12 for the average length of a sitcom minus ads.) But the format is a pain to pull off. The tight time frame means the first few episodes cement choices that will be hard to reverse if the creators have second thoughts. "We had to lay out a map, literally, of where people were...