DYNAMIC WRITING || ONLINE MASTER COURSE
DYNAMIC WRITING || ONLINE MASTER COURSE
COURSE:
A Six Week Online Master Screenwriting Course
Studying with Max Adams
Course Dates: 07.09.24
Course Fee: $475 || Course Deposit: $150
Course Location: ONLINE
Dynamic Writing is an accelerated screenwriting master class studying online with author & award winning screenwriter Max Adams. During six weeks of advanced study, students will learn the cornerstones of screen motion on the page and on the screen, 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 course assignments with Max Adams.
COURSE SYLLABUS:
WEEK ONE: Location & Setting ||
Lecture: Restaurants, Courtrooms & Cubicles Are Not Your Friend
WEEK TWO: Electronic Devices & Filters ||
Lecture: Plastic Boxes Are Boring
WEEK THREE: Motion & Verbs ||
Lecture: “Moving Pictures” Means “Move”
WEEK FOUR: Open Spaces vs. Moving Spaces ||
Lecture: Sitting In a Car is Still “Sitting”
WEEK FIVE: Action: Moving on the Page ||
Formatting for Impact
WEEK SIX: When Static Scenes Are Required ||
Lecture: Using Tension, Perspective & Comedy to Carry a Static Scene
WEEK SEVEN: Grace Week ||
No Lecture
WE WILL BE COVERING:
- The core elements of motion on screen & the page
- Dynamic locations vs static locations
- Location vs action — and using both to augment a scene or scene sequence
- Location vs event — and using both to augment a scene or scene sequence
- Establishing & maintaining narrative dramatic tension with motion
- Establishing & maintaining narrative dramatic tension with location
- Filters that augment motion & scene tension
- Filters that mute motion & scene tension
- Dots writing & extraneous traveling sequences
- Language that supports motion on the screen, on the page — and for a reader
- Writing down the page for cinematic impact
- Speed headers
- Action pacing
- 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 impact with and a cinematic reading experience for future readers and industry professionals considering material for option, purchase, development, attachment and production.
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DYNAMIC 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
Tony Ferrendelli
I highly recommend Max Adam’s Dynamic Writing course. This course has completely transformed the way I write scripts. I directly credit Dynamic Writing with wins for several scripts in multiple competitions. The class will push your limits and it’s worth it.
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Nektarios Chrissos
After this course it won't be. Dynamic writing comes from a multitude of factors within the script. Max Adams will make those clear to you and give you the tools to write dynamic scenes and sequences, not in theory, but in practice. Do your writing self a favor and register for this course!
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Your Instructor
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, 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 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.
Testimonials
CK LOVE
SCREENWRITER
I believe BLOOD IN THE BONE, my feature Femmenoir, would never have been selected by the Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards if I didn't have the brains and support of the AFW screenwriting support group and wisdom of our fearless leader Max Adams.
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.
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.
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.
Debi Yazbeck
Writer/Director
You laid the foundation, Max. Best teacher ever!
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
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.
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.
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!!!
Kristen McNaule
Writer/Director
AFW’s 5150 workshop has given an incredible boost to my writing, thanks to the guidance of Max Adams.
Max Adam’s Dynamic Writing Course is about putting the “Move” into your Moving Pictures. Whether it’s an action-packed moment dangling from a cliff, or a tense interaction in a courtroom, this course gives you the writing tools to create that dynamic scene, keeping your audience’s hearts and minds engaged. I highly recommend this course as a fundamental cornerstone of your screenwriting skills.