Aristotle's Seven Golden Rules of Storytelling

Aristotle’s Seven Golden Rules of Storytelling

Posted on December 3, 2008 in General Screenwriting | No Comments

Jan Janroy covers Aristotle’s Seven Golden Rules of Storytelling while coaching graduates for their final thesis films at Graduate Department of Film & Television: Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.

…Aristotle 384-322 BCE, in his seminal treatise ‘Poetics or Poetica’ concluded there are seven golden rules of successful story telling. These rules or principles in his days pertained to ancient Greek theatre. Incredibly, today the same seven elements are essential to writing successful film screenplays. Whenever I asked film graduates at NYU if they could guess the seven principal elements of good story telling, they would between them quickly answer correctly the following six elements, which Aristotle prioritized as:

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