How To Write A Screenplay (For Beginners)

[@muricanmike]

I have to teach film to high schoolers from this August. This is coming RIGHT IN TIME! ❤❤❤

[@xOgawa]

Good luck

[@filmriot]

That's amazing! Good luck!

[@PXPTV32]

good luck man❤

[@JakeAdkinsOfficial]

Just want to say, as someone who's been around since your first videos, its awesome to see the incredible way you guys have built this channel that has probably helped more people than you will ever know find their footing in the industry and the art of film!

[@GNGTCG]

Best channel ever to born in 2009 = Film riot. Thank you Ryan

[@sethflix]

Hey, not true! Mine was born in 2009 too!

[@JakeAdkinsOfficial]

You can be second 😂, how's that. ​@@sethflix

[@manicj369]

So happy that you're putting a lot of effort into screenwriting 🙌🙌 Honestly, it's the backbone to making a good movie; great directing, acting, and cinematography doesn't matter if the script isn't good.

[@christianleppen7113]

This video is absolutely perfect! I am a film maker myself, and my 15 year old brother with autism has asked me to teach him so that he can learn to make his own films. He wants to learn to write stories and scripts, so we’ve been working on it for a few weeks now and this is going to help us so much!

[@nicklarovere]

You are doing, and have been doing, the filmmaking community a good service. Keep up the great work, Ryan and team.

[@sl3102]

This is gold! I'd like to advice writers to not be too specific about things like editing and music though. It might make others in the production team feel inhibited and trapped inside someone else's vision. These choices are probably going to be made by somebody else than the writer anyway.

[@DethronerX]

The second part of the video is even more important. Its when we follow the ideas and how they want to be, not considering the audience, it becomes a very true and honest story and how it should be in that world

[@KeithBridges13]

Love your channel can't wait to work with yall someday!

[@garylaramore]

Great information, delivered quickly and clearly. Thank you!

[@Vodhin]

Best advice I ever received about scriptwriting is "Don't Direct On Paper." _EXT. GARY'S HOUSE - DAY_ _With a satisfying SPLOOSH, Gary dumps the rest of the bucket of sudsy water on his Red 1968 Mustang and WHISTLES "ZIPPTY DO DAH" as he cleans his car, oblivious to the happy little blue bird perched on a wire high above the windscreen_ You can visualize this scene in many different ways. You probably already have a Wide Shot in mind, maybe a Dolly Zoom Out to reveal the bird. Let the Directors figure out what to do. Your job, as a writer, is to give the reader brain food. How many jokes can you find in my scene?

[@reelgoats]

LOVE IT RYAN.

[@deejschrader]

Hey brother, thank you so much for making this! I'm putting myself through everything I can to become the Director, Writer, Editor, and Cinematographer that I wanna be. I know the better I do, the less I'll be able to focus on each of these areas, but I want to be the best I can be in these areas to make the stories I wanna make. Thank you for years of being an incredible, life changing resource

[@LAWallis]

I've been doig this for about three years now, but it's always great to keep going over the basics.

[@shreegokul7962]

Thank you for existing!

[@SLYCENDYCEmakesaMOVIE]

Can’t wait for the ‘ this could be an entire episode by itself” episodes

[@cineworms]

is the action line from the script sample from hereditary ?

[@filmriot]

One of them, yep!

[@larrysnyder2387]

Super helpful. Just getting started. Thank you!

[@xero_rage]

Brightens my day when you guys upload!

[@TommyRosati]

Great episode! The best screenwriting learning experience I've had was taking Aaron Sorkin's screenwriting MasterClass. His class alone was worth the MasterClass superscription price. The guy is literally one of the most gifted & talented writers of our time.

[@StoryWeavers-y1h]

This story was so inspiring and uplifting. Thank you for sharing it with us. ❤❤❤

[@Dadoutdoors24]

I used Fade In to write the pilot of a show based on my award-winning, bestselling book. It's much harder than writing a book. Can you do an episode on TV writing?

[@indiestudio23]

You made my day 😀 thankyou so much for this video sir ❤

[@tiltedroom]

Awesome episode once again! 🤜Would love to hear more about your writing journey related to your individual films. 🙏

[@JohnBradford14]

The best part about log-lines is imagining it on screen as a description for your movie.

[@StarCinemaEffects]

Beste Channel of all time !

[@-Himax]

Wow 😳😳 This is exactly the kind of tutorial I've been expecting from this channel thanks for the video 🤝🏾🤝🏾

[@KingKhanAbz]

Ryan's looking good with that shirt and chain! 👍🏻 Stylish Ry Guy! 😁

[@cttp]

Awesome video, FR team :)

[@simbarashenyahwa149]

I needed this thank you

[@High-Tech-Geek]

Thanks! Good stuff!

[@sunnysworldnft]

new sub - super informative! ty

[@TheAnimeist]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@CHUb2Z]

Yay! New video!

[@Zeis]

This was awesome, thank you Ryan!

[@NightFogFilms]

Thanks. I am NOT a writer but I have about 5 horror short story ideas in my head. I will try out my ideas using this structure. I've done 4 on my channel but I had to do them off the cuff and it was not easy putting together that way. My latest MOTION ACTIVATED was not even put on paper. All off the dome. It was unorganized and very hard to edit in post but I don't think I did too bad despite unknowingly how to structure my ideas. Once again thank you for you educational videos.

[@doityourself949]

Great video as always.

[@smallfoxstudios]

Thank you for the new video!!

[@SWADEProductions]

show up late and leave early GOLD!

[@fishyboy820yt]

hey film riot! do you think an iPhone 15 (with log) and a gimbal is good enough to be a filmmaker? and make professional looking footage?

[@atmaxmoviereviews9975]

Wiat a minute, looks like this was made for me...never seen a film riot video that meets my need that was posted 20 mins ago .. Nice

[@suryaprakashreddy]

Make a video on how to write a scene and structure it , the no of beats, and how to enter late and exit early , how to fill action and dialogue

[@Ozaldana]

Thank you!

[@jebatman756]

Oh, wow. when he wrote, 101...he really meant 101...lol

[@RaviVazirani-fs6nz]

The thing about writing structure is that it is derived after having written a truly great script. So starting a story that matters to you with a structure blueprint will surely make it mediocre. You'll be okay if that's your job and it pays. But otherwise it is about the continuous process of exploration and definition as you move forward from the first impulse that makes you wanna tell a story.

[@ForlornCreature]

Are you guys making any narrative stuff anymore? Any short films or something on the horizon?

[@BendyandtheBois]

A friend of mine is trying to make his own animated show on his own, I think this will help streamline his process

[@VivEK.D853]

0:21 could you share the link of tutorial Object tracking of that gun

[@hardwire666too]

I've written a lot of crap and co-written a lot of other crap. None of which will ever see the light of day. But screen writing has always interested me because of the formatting. The formatting seemingly is intended to keep you from getting too full of your own bull💩. If typical writing is painting with words then screenwriting is a blueprint. At least that how I've always felt. Good one I learned some good stuff.

[@mc.towelie]

Hey There Film Riot, been noticing kind of a slow pace on the channel with uploads once a month. And the crew in general is kind of quiet on social media. Hope you're all good and we don't get to see THAT video soon. If know what I mean..

[@outjogging]

I need 102 class. What to do after the script is finished.

[@vitaliygordon9459]

What's the name of the movie with Paul Dano?

[@souslarmure]

I spotted "Secret window", but what are the others ? With Harold Ramis and Nicolas Cage ?

[@spectremanLIVE1]

🥳🎉🎂My Favorite!!!

[@SALVATl0N]

I love writing, but I struggle so much with structure.

[@filmriot]

I was the same. Doing it over and over until it clicked was the only thing that worked for me.

[@kylebiggs8849]

What happened to the original video?

[@smnajsj]

Can u do a cgi tutorial on how to get octopus tentacles like Descendants 2-4 ?

[@mikeholczer]

I was surprised how much of this applies to process of software engineering. I suppose it probably applies to the creation of many things.

[@PXPTV32]

seems like ryan is working on a feature, thats why less episodes these days 😏😏😏

[@JakeAdkinsOfficial]

Would a production company ever have a problem receiving a scriptment when they ask for a treatment?

[@filmriot]

If a treatment was required for a specific reason, yes. If you are asked to work up a treatment to convey the film you want to make to them, no.

[@PXPTV32]

ry guy is back

[@injectionAI]

Judging by the quality of the current industry, we should probably start with Writing 0.001

[@daniel_wilkinson]

In a way it's kind of (hilarious isn't the right word... pointless maybe?) that this much effort is put into writing a script only for it to be cut to shreds IF shooting ever actually gets started because of budget, location availability, and so on; and then get cut to shreds again during the edit process because of a thousand other different reasons.

[@kit888]

Michael Mann wrote Heat 2 as a novel. If you want to get your story out, self publish it as a novel.

[@BeerTent]

That sounds terrible for all of our situations. Cheers, my bras!

[@NIGHTMARENATION77]

I've been wanting to try screenwriting, but everythings been done, lol

[@filmriot]

But not with your point of view.

[@QuantayPeoples]

chatGBT type beat

[@HA-oo5gs]

No.. writing is the easiest thing for someone whose profession is writing, my dear, but if you want to help a writer - like me - teach me how to sell the scenario I wrote to an interested company, with thanks.

[@malusisoko7030]

lol on not like us

[@davidgwolk]

boo

[@sentientsandwich1984]

You forgot the most important part, make your main character a 🏳️‍🌈 female otherwise nobody is gonna greenlight it

[@PXPTV32]

seems like ryan is working on a feature, thats why less episodes these days 😏😏😏