CHARACTER WRITING || VIDEO MASTER COURSE || AVAILABLE NOW!
CHARACTER WRITING || VIDEO MASTER COURSE
CHARACTER WRITING || VIDEO MASTER COURSE
COURSE:
Release Date: May 2025
Course Access: 2 MonthsCourse Fee: $149.99
Limited Time Pre-Launch Course Fee: $99.
Character Writing is an eight part online video master screenwriting class. Full course running time is two & a half hours. Character Writing is a member of the character class set from TheAFW and author & award winning screenwriter Max Adams. Character Writing is available both as a video course and as a six week online course studying with Max Adams.
VIDEO SECTIONS COVER:
- The cornerstone elements of lead characters
- The cornerstone elements of secondary characters
- Who the story belongs to & why
- Protagonist want vs protagonist need
- Characters & features
- Characters & series
- Character & plot
- Subplot characters
- Character introductions & impact
- Point of View characters
- Antagonists & plot focus
- The three primary character arcs
- Character juxtaposition
- Characters who support or mitigate tone
- Supporting characterization with dialogue
- Supporting characterization with action
- And more —
YOU WILL TAKE AWAY:
- Actionable craft tools that, implemented in your own scripts, will immediately improve your existing & future feature and television scripts, ceating stronger characters who are more dynamic and arresting on the page and on the screen — creating stronger appeal for readers & industry professionals considering material for option, purchase, development, attachment and production.
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Ratings and Reviews
Phil Krampf
This was the third video class I've taken with Max and like the first two, and I'm sure the fourth I'm about to start, the material is straightforward, concise and insightful. The clearest takeaways in this course for me were the section on POV and this perfect, summation: "The protagonist is the character with the most to lose [the most at stake] AND the ability to change story outcome." Bravo.
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About Max Adams
MAX ADAMS is an author and award winning screenwriter. She has written for Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Universal Pictures — and a couple others to remain unnamed because no one around here wants to get black listed.
Max is a former volunteer AFI Alumni reader and WGAw online mentor, former Nicholl reader and judge, has appeared as a speaker at, among other places, AMPAS, USC, and Film Arts Foundation, is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Utah and a former lecturer & instructor at New York Film Academy, is the author of The Screenwriter’s Survival Guide AND The New Screenwriter’s Survival Guide, is the founder of two international online screenwriting workshops — and TheAFW — and has the dubious distinction of having been dubbed “Red Hot Adams” by Daily Variety for selling three pitches over a holiday weekend — which made her agents cry.
[In a good way.]
She answers now to both “Max” and “Red Hot” in crowds and dog parks.
Max has been writing, selling, mentoring, and teaching for two decades. Four or her workshoppers have won Nicholl Fellowships from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. Many of her students and workshoppers have gone on to option, sell, publish, and produce work.
This was the first video course I have taken from Max. I got so much out of the whole course, and particularly the sections on subplots and secondary characters, and point of view characters. Max clearly explains things using relatable examples that make it easy to grasp the concepts.