LAB: THE LOGLINE LAB
A Two Hour Lab with Screenwriter Max Adams:
LAB SUBJECT: The Logline
LAB DATES: 11.05.22
LAB TIME: 8 PM EST
LAB FEE: $59.00 ||
LAB LOCATION: The is an online Zoom lab
Schedule:
FIRST HOUR: 45 Minute Lecture & Presentation from Max Adams & 15 Minute Break
SECOND HOUR: Analysis & Review of Example Loglines & Attendee’s Pre-Submitted Loglines
*Optional Half Hour Q&A with Max Adams to Follow
AFTER REGISTRATION —
You will receive your Zoom dits in email the day prior to your zoom lab date. Please white list theafw.com email to make sure you receive your confirmation email and lab dits — and please try to register a day in advance. We do not want to be flinging email back and forth an hour before the lab starts and will not be accepting new registrations in the hour immediately preceding the lab and mid-presentation.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE —
Max to include your logline with logline examples we work with in the lab, please pre-submit your logline to contact@theafw.com with the subject line “Lab Logline” — you must be registered with the lab to submit & we can’t include all submitted loglines but we will try.
WE WILL BE COVERING:
- The five core building blocks of a logline that must be included to impart concept to industry professionals
- The two logline concept models: plot driven concepts & situation driven concepts
- Additional building blocks — and when & why to use them
- Why metaphor is not your logline’s friend
- Why adjectives are not your logline’s friend
- Language that supports tone & concept
- Burying the lead — don’t!
- Bringing genre home
- Using title for impact
- Mental real estate & how to use it
- Location specifics & how to use them
- Time period specifics & how to use them
- Big ticket story elements
- And more —
YOU WILL TAKE AWAY:
- An understanding of the core elements every industry professional being pitched must get in a logline in order to consider and/or champion a story and concept — and the knowledge needed to put those pieces together for the fast pitch, the long pitch, and the query pitch when reaching out to and pitching industry professionals.
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Logline Lab Waiting List:
Ratings and Reviews
Chad Mellor
Everyone with a dream of breaking into the industry needs to take this lab. Distilling the entirety of a story into a single sentence is very difficult, but Max not only takes the time to thoroughly workshop a logline for your current project in the lab, but she also gives you the tools needed to get there yourself on future project once the lab is over. There's no one better than Max.
2 people found this helpful.
patricia burroughs
Max's Logline Lab was just what I needed to get a handle on what I've been doing wrong. Like I said above, fabulous!
2 people found this helpful.
Leah A Baxter
I’m so glad I decided to take this workshop! Max knows the industry and explained how to craft a clear and compelling logline, which is critical to getting read. I highly recommend this workshop!
3 people found this helpful.
Ally May
2 people found this helpful.
Jade Shine
Different stories need different types of loglines and Max makes it simple to grasp and implement. Her class moves at a great pace and she gives individual attention to help you elevate your loglines to where they need to be to attract the attention of producers, directors, and talent.
4 people found this helpful.
Mary Albanese
I have done logline workshops and sessions with other people, but Max's logline lab is the best, full stop. If you want your loglines clean and clear, insightful and informative, taking her logline lab will be time very well-spent.
4 people found this helpful.
Ana Maria Montoya
I needed this workshop--as a working, repped screenwriter. Listen, writing a LOGLINE isn't like writing a pilot or screenplay. It utilizes different skills. (You're a SCREENwriter, not a LOGLINEwriter, I'm assuming.) I love how Max breaks down how to write a juicy logline that entices someone to read your script. Make this investment in your career as a gift to yourself and your dreams!
4 people found this helpful.
Jason Wallach
I enrolled as the effective formation of powerful and effective loglines was elusive. In the course of the workshop, I had submitted loglines for 3 different screenplays and received significant clarity and adaptation of effective new loglines. Very helpful.
4 people found this helpful.
Maegan Langer
Loglines intimidated me before I took Max's lab. Boiling a hundred or so pages of story down to a single sentence is harder than it looks. Max taught me how to pick out the most important elements and put them together in a way that's clear, concise, and attention-grabbing. This lab gave me the tools to write compelling loglines for any project. Highly recommended!
4 people found this helpful.
Joan Philo
I learned a ton structuring a solid hitting logline from Max. My loglines will never be the same. I walked away with "mental real estate" giddiness and couldn't wait to change another logline I had with an instantly recognizable place/object/personality. Max sizzles!
2 people found this helpful.
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 is an industry professional and a great teacher, her knowledge, experience, and passion for writing is evident. This class is essential to the craft of writing and Max is the one to learn from; she goes over the building blocks of a logline and works one on one with submitted work.