MASTERING STORY MOMENTUM || ONLINE MASTER COURSE
MASTERING STORY MOMENTUM || ONLINE MASTER COURSE
COURSE:
A Six Week Online Master Screenwriting Course
Studying with Max Adams
Course Dates: 03.14.23
Course Fee: $475 || Course Deposit: $150
Course Location: ONLINE
Mastering Story Momentum is an accelerated screenwriting master class studying online with author & award winning screenwriter Max Adams. During six weeks of advanced study, students will study and analyze pacing models, 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: Story Versus Plot ||
Lecture: Why Linear Writing is Not Your Friend
WEEK TWO: Connect the Dots Writing ||
Lecture: The Dots Must Die
WEEK THREE: Cause & Effect ||
Lecture: The Matt Stone & Trey Parker Model
WEEK FOUR: Boy on a Skateboard ||
Lecture: Good News, Bad News – A Practical Study of Cause & Effect
WEEK FIVE: Scene Sequencing ||
Lecture: Cause & Effect and Scene Sequences
WEEK SIX: Act Sequencing ||
Lecture: Cause & Effect and Script Acts
WEEK SEVEN: Grace Week ||
No Lecture
WE WILL BE COVERING:
- Plot focus & follow through
- Scene rhythm & length
- Narrative dramatic tension — how to build it & how to sustain it
- Suspense timing
- Obstacles, your plot’s best friend
- Launch points
- Scene progression & the South Park model
- Scene progresssion & the Good News/Bad News model
- Sustaining character goals with tasks
- How to turn a scene with action
- How to turn a scene with dialogue
- Cutting for impact
- And more —
YOU WILL TAKE AWAY:
- Actionable craft tools that, implemented in your own writing & scripts, will immediately improve your existing & future feature and television scripts, creating stronger tension, escalation, turning points, plot focus, story progression, and building meaningful story platforms to support succesful story climax and resoluation.
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Testimonials
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.
“You are inspired by your character who is witty and brave, writing smart dialogue late at night, only to find that after page thirty the plot drags! Worry not, the cavalry is coming in the form of Max Adams’ Momentum Class! You will learn and practice the secrets of how to keep a plot moving and write gripping, fast paced scripts! Who knows, you just might be able to quit your day job? “