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  • ISBN: 0340859717
  • Category: Reference
  • Author: Ray Frensham
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  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Teach Yourself (March 2003)
  • Pages: 310 pages
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Teach Yourself Screenwriting (Teach Yourself Creative Writing). This is a valuable book for screenwriting.

Teach Yourself Screenwriting (Teach Yourself Creative Writing). Break into Screenwriting: Teach Yourself by Frensham, Ray (2011) Paperback.

Teach Yourself Screenwriting book. Ray Frensham's guide to screenwriting encompasses everything one needs to know before sitting down in front of the computer or with a pad of paper and a pencil

Teach Yourself Screenwriting book. Ray Frensham's guide to screenwriting encompasses everything one needs to know before sitting down in front of the computer or with a pad of paper and a pencil. He explains how to adapt fictional material for a screenplay or how to give life to an original idea. He also includes exercises such as watching films and critiquing them. The difficult subjects of character development and story structure are thoroughly covered.

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Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, Teach Yourself. Teach Yourself Screenwriting (TY Creative Writing) - Ray Frensham. Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting - Robert McKee

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Items related to Teach Yourself Screenwriting (Teach Yourself Creative. He lectures and writes regularly on screenwriting. Ray Frensham Teach Yourself Screenwriting (Teach Yourself Creative Writing). ISBN 13: 9780340859711. Teach Yourself Screenwriting (Teach Yourself Creative Writing).

Teach Yourself Screenwriting" is a comprehensive, jargon-free guide for all budding screenwriters. Its aim is not just to guide you through the techniques and skills you need to write for the screen, but also to give you guidance on how to approach the industry as a whole.

Is this the right book for me? A comprehensive, jargon-free guide for all .

book by Raymond G. Frensham.

This is a comprehensive, jargon-free guide for all budding screenwriters. Its aim is not just to guide you through.

Many readers dream of seeing their stories on the silver screen, but most do not know how to write a screenplay, let alone get their script into the right hands. For those readers wanting the "how-tos" of Hollywood, Teach Yourself Screenwriting is an easy-to-comprehend yet thorough introduction to this art. Here they will get the basics and advice on how to get their work onto celluloid.

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This book covers the techniques and specialized skills used in writing for this visual medium and answers the practical questions often asked by budding screenwriters.

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Reviews about Teach Yourself Screenwriting (Teach Yourself Creative Writing) (7):
Hystana
I really enjoy reading the screenwriting book in my spare time. The book had arrived in good condition in the mail almost looking brand new.
Washington
Frencham goes beyond explaining screenplays, the three act structure, jargon and formatting. In fact, he starts at the beginning with ideas and delves into the complexity of ideas, story building and character development with quite a clever detailed process map - a topic that is usually brushed over or briefly scoped with index cards in other screenplay books. Another feature, I really liked is he gives examples of both wrong and right formatting used in the industry. I borrowed this book a few years ago and didn't get to read it all but wrote down the name and author as a must have on my wish list!
Levaq
Teach Yourself Screenwriting is one of the best "how-to" books I have in my library. From concept to delivery, it covers every aspect of producing a viable script. I am amazed at the examples that Frensham provides his readers; they are unrivaled. This is a must-read for every budding screenwriter.
Tetaian
best thing ever need this to help writing play and script for tv and movies! thanx a million times !
Ginaun
There is now a 2011 edition of this book. I was quite impressed at the author's ability to break down the complex task of writing a screenplay. He discusses the various components, characters, plot, etc. and how to weave them properly into a Hollywood-ready script for sale. I found the author's advice to be very sensible and practical. For example, he points out industry conventions that must be followed to even be taken seriously at all. Since many people could use a structure and organization during their creative time, this is a good book for the budding writer. While it is geared towards novice writers, it is powerful enough to develop a professional screenplay. The author provides all the details as you follow along and do the exercises. If you follow the advice in this book you have a much better chance of getting noticed. He wisely tells you to avoid advanced technical details about camera shots and setups best left to the director. In other words, unless you are the writer AND director some things are better left out. After all, you want to sell your work not dictate how it will appear on screen. Very practical advice about working in the industry. There is a lot of good information packed into this volume (some have complained that it is not an easy read). So perhaps it's really for journeyman writers who need more polish in their presentation. Either way you will find the help you need to get started and get going with this book.

Buy this book.
TheSuspect
"Teach Yourself Screenwriting" is a compendium of all things screenwriting. Really. This book takes two pages to fully explain what other books would use a chapter for, and considering its topic, that's incredible.

The author subscribes to the three-act structure theory of storytelling, one to which I also subscribe. However, later in the book--and this goes to show just how in-depth this book is--the author covers other theories of structure in a chapter titled "Structural Variations", like `The Hero's Journey' approach and multi-plotting.

I think the secret to "Teach Yourself..." is the use of a lavish amount of diagrams, flow-charts, and tables all of which are dense with information. Every few pages, the author invites the reader to apply what they have learned in small boxed-off sections, such as this one in the `Enhancing Emotion' chapter:

In Four Weddings And A Funeral, examine the way the David character (Charles's deaf and mute brother) is handled--he has a critical role in the final wedding; we first see him only in passing, standing in the background at the first wedding reception. We next encounter him outside the cinema, and only then do we realize just who he is--and we are already one third into the film. Why was this held back for so long?
Now watch Road To Perdition and note the recurring use of Michael Jr's illustrated book of The Lone Ranger

I don't know if I would be comfortable suggesting this as the only book on screenwriting for a novice (Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting is an incredible resource) but it brilliantly summarizes many if not all of the concepts of screenwriting.

The only negative I can summon up (and I had to struggle for this one) is with the physical book itself: when I read, I like to mark certain important pages with post-it notes. Considering just how dense this book is, that's quite a number of post-it notes. I discovered with some disappointment that post-its pull up the ink when removed.

I would go so far as to say this book must be in every screenwriter's library. MUST.
Yalone
I read this before reading Syd Field, Christopher Vogler, and the others. This book is almost intimidating in its detail, but for a self-teaching writer I recommend it above the others because:
1. MORE DETAILED STRUCTURE. Frensham breaks down the structure of a script into smaller, tighter detail than simply having three acts, or three plot points. Once you know the material, cliche cliche, you can play with it, but it's revealing to see how the whole thing hangs together.
2. MORE KINDS OF STRUCTURE. Having broken movie structure down by scene and climaxes, Frensham then proceeds to break it down by sequences. Additional analytical tools give you more ways to think about a movie and therefore more ways to diagnose the illnesses of your own writing.
3. EXERCISES. Frensham explains a concept and then gives you homework. Go watch movies A, B, C and D and identify X, Y and Z about them. Great practice, and once you've done it with the films you know, it becomes very easy to do it with new films.
4. ALL ABOUT WRITING. Frensham wastes very little time on trying to tell you how to second guess the reader, the producer or the market or whining about pet peeves or sharpening his ax for bloodshed. There is some information about marketing, but mostly this book is what it declares itself to be in its title -- a tool for teaching yourself to write.
Bon appetit.

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