7 Point Story Structure Found In Every Great Movie — Paul Chitlik
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Film Courage: What are the seven points of story structure found in every great movie?
Paul Chitlik, Author/Writer: I’m glad you asked that question. It’s a funny thing. Writers when they first started writing movies sometimes relied on the basic structure that Aristotle pointed out for plays 2500 years ago. There’s a beginning, there’s a middle and there’s an end.
Movies have evolved a little bit more so that they have found a definite structure that works for just about any kind of movie. Now there are two different kinds of structures that have been employed in movies. One is the seven-point structure and the other is a 12-point structure. I’ll go into that a little bit.
The seven-point structure is:
-You write about ordinary life of the character
-We get to meet the character
-See who that person…
