DIALOGUE WRITING || ONLINE MASTER COURSE
DIALOGUE WRITING || ONLINE MASTER COURSE
COURSE:
A Six Week Online Master Screenwriting Course
Studying with Max Adams
Course Dates: 05.18.21
Course Fee: $475 || Course Deposit: $150
Course Location: ONLINE
Dialogue Writing is an accelerated screenwriting master class studying online with author & award winning screenwriter Max Adams. During six weeks of advanced study, students will analyze produced scripts and film clips provided in class, complete advanced course assignments and exercises, and participate in weekly online discussions reviewing and analyzing course materials and dialogue assignments with Max Adams.
COURSE SYLLABUS:
WEEK ONE: Reality vs. Dialogue Reality ||
Lecture: But That’s How People Really Talk!
WEEK TWO: Monologues vs. Withholding ||
Lecture: When to Go Shakespeare
WEEK THREE: Rhythm & Cadence ||
Lecture: Colloquialism, Friend or Foe?
WEEK FOUR: Character & Dialogue ||
Lecture: Why Does Molly Sound Like Mary?
WEEK FIVE: Subtext & Depth ||
Lecture: The Duck Metaphor; Or, Why Woody Allen Was a Writing God
WEEK SIX: Voice Over & Narration || Lecture: Film vs. Audio Book
WEEK SEVEN: Grace Week ||
No Lecture
WE WILL BE COVERING:
- Cadence, rhythm & speaking patterns
- Monologues — when to go long & when to cut it short
- Exposition & narrative dramatic tension
- Repetition — when it works & when it kills
- How to carry a static scene with dialogue
- Turning scenes with dialogue
- Dialogue peaks
- When silence is dialogue
- Voice overs & breaking the fourth wall
- Electronic devices & animated dialogue
- Supporting character cornerstones with dialogue
- Comedic tension in dialogue
- Dramatic tension in dialogue
- On the nose dialogue
- Talking heads
- Subtext
- 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, creating dialogue that more fully supports story, character, dramatic & comedic tension, suspense, plot, pacing and cinematic impact improving reading experience for future readers and industry professionals considering material for option, purchase, development, attachment and production.
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DIALOGUE WRITING is a master screenwriting class. If you are a new student, a writing sample will be requested prior to final acceptance into the class. In rare instances in which you are not accepted into the class, your course deposit will be returned.
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Ratings and Reviews
Nektarios Chrissos
Wooden lines can ruin characters and stories. Max knows that, being a Nicholl winner and fellow, not to mention a Hollywood trenches' survivor. She gave me the tools to write dialogue lines that can make actors want to play the roles; that will stop the eyes' rolling after reading corny conversations. A very, very useful course that I was lucky to spot and take.
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Testimonials
Tonia Kempler
Writer/Director
Thank you. You have completely given me confidence and skills I didn’t have before. Couldn’t have done this without taking your classes.
Debi Yazbeck
Writer/Director
You laid the foundation, Max. Best teacher ever!
Kerry Valderamma
Writer/Director
Max Adams is one of the most knowledgeable and talented people in screenwriting that I know, all writers need to hear what Max Adams has to say.
Alvaro Rodriguez
Screenwriter
Max Adams is the kind of smart, engaging teacher that made me want to be a better writer — and she helped me do it.
Ana Maria Montoya
Screenwriter
If you want someone to challenge you to dive deep and pull the BEST out of yourself, Max is that whip-smart coach, teacher, and mentor.
Toni McGee Causey
Author
The brilliance of taking Max Adams’ classes is you start seeing improvement in your writing almost immediately.
Julie Howe
Author/Screenwriter/Producer
I’ve taken all of Max’s classes and quite simply, her focused methods and attention to detail blow every other screenwriting class out of the water.
Jennifer Mulligan
Screenwriter
Max Adams has been a keen mentor, champion and cheerleader. Her online classes have provided me with very specific and important screenwriting tools. My short script, Minerva’s War, was a 2014 Finalist at the Lady Filmmakers Film Festival in Beverly Hills as a direct result of learning and applying these techniques.
Tony Ferrendelli
Screenwriter
Max Adams has helped to completely transform the way I write scripts. Placement of several scripts in multiple competitions is a direct result of the skills I have developed through participation in Max’s classes and workshop.
Al Finocchio
Screenwriter
Max is as smart, tough, and entertaining as she sounds in her book. It’s hard to imagine a better mentor.
Patricia Burroughs
Author/Screenwriter
The input I got from Max Adams lifted my script, ‘Redemption,’ from a SemiFinalist to a Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting award winner.
Della Vance Greenawalt
Screenwriter
Max Adams’ classes are the best I have ever taken. In every class I have experienced a “light bulb” moment that raised my scripts to another level.
Gwenda Bond
Author/Screenwriter
Max’s workshop was a transformative experience for me as a young writer.
Nancy Bilyeau
Author/Screenwriter
I carried Max’s advice over to my fiction and have now sold & published five novels.
Joan Philo
Screenwriter
It’s so big what you are to screenwriting and what you give to others and how you collect and champion writers who do more than write, they produce. That’s huge in this business of writing and what sets you above the rest.
Peter Andrews
Screenwriter/Playwright
If you want to take the next step in your writing, Max makes the difference. She’s hands-on in classes that balance essential skills with insights you won’t get anywhere else.
Dan Goforth
Screenwriter
For a screenwriter, Max Adams’ 5150 Workshop is one of the best things you can do to improve yourself and your work. If you’re lucky enough to catch an open spot, TAKE IT!!!
Stacy Baker Masand
Screenwriter
You know that saying, ‘You don’t know what you don’t know?’ That was my experience before taking classes at The Academy of Film Writing. Hands down, my writing transformed more after taking Max’s courses than any other time period or curriculum.
Kristen McNaule
Writer/Director
AFW’s 5150 workshop has given an incredible boost to my writing, thanks to the guidance of Max Adams.
This was the first class I took from Max and a great start for learning more about screenwriting. Characters drive stories by what they say and do. Dialogue differs from ordinary speech. Creating distinct voices for each character in content, vernacular, length of their sentences, and cadence takes craft. That is what the class teaches, how to make characters pop off the page, alive and kicking.