Book G.M. Frumkin - a television screenwriter, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation - is addressed to future creators of films, television programs, commercials. Its goal is to help aspiring screenwriters, primarily creative youth, acquire initial professional knowledge and skills. The textbook discusses in detail such concepts common to all types and genres of screen drama as the form of recording a script, its composition and structure, style and figurative form, features of voiceover text and much more.