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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 [...]

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Aristotle’s Poetics for Screenwriters

Posted on April 10, 2008 in General Screenwriting | 1 Comment

Former story analyst for Miramax Films, Michael Tierno, has built the bridge from the foundation of Aristotle’s classic Poetics to the modern cinema in Aristotle’s Poetics for Screenwriters.

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