THE ART OF THE PITCH || JULY 7
THE ART OF THE PITCH || ONLINE MASTER COURSE
COURSE:
A Six Week Online Master Screenwriting Course
Studying with Max Adams
Course Dates: 07.07.26
Course Fee: $475
Course Location: ONLINE
The Art of the Pitch is an accelerated screenwriting master class studying online with author & award winning screenwriter Max Adams. During six weeks of advanced study, students will analyze pitch break downs, clips, and structural models provided in class, complete advanced course assignments and exercises, and participate in weekly online discussions reviewing and analyzing course materials and pitch assignments with Max Adams.
COURSE SYLLABUS:
WEEK ONE: The Five Elements ||
Lecture: Selling to the Man Upstairs
WEEK TWO: Openings ||
Lecture: The Problem & the Visual
WEEK THREE: Turning Points ||
Lecture: Turn or Burn
WEEK FOUR: Remember to Climax ||
Lecture: The Three Point Essay is Your Friend — But Don’t Forget to Climax
WEEK FIVE: Time Line Pitches ||
Lecture: Time Lines & Cornerstones
WEEK SIX: Know Your Audience ||
Lecture: Writer Speak vs. Mogul Speak
WEEK SEVEN: Grace Week ||
No Lecture
WE WILL BE COVERING:
- The three core pitches: Elevator; Meeting; Query
- Timing strategies
- The five cornerstones of the pitch
- Pitch structure
- Pitch openings
- Pitch turning points
- Pitch stakes
- Why your logline is your best friend
- Differences between players & pitch approach
- Differences between feature & series pitches
- No pitch climax equals no movie climax
- Who to pitch & who not to pitch — and why
- Strategies of professional approach & presentation
- And more —
YOU WILL TAKE AWAY:
- A solid pitch for a [completed or in progress] project you bring to class and actionable pitching strategies & tools to apply pitching future projects.
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Ratings and Reviews
Leah Baxter
This is must-have information! I especially loved using one of my own scripts and learning the right way to pitch it! I will return to this info each time I need to create a pitch for a new script!
6 people found this helpful.
Carl Miller
Max's "Art of the Pitch" class was a game-changer for me. I went in thinking I knew how to pitch, but boy, was I wrong! The course covered all sorts of pitching scenarios, from quick elevator pitches to full-blown meetings. What I loved most was how practical everything was. Max didn't just talk theory; she gave us real strategies we could use right away.
6 people found this helpful.
Julie Howe
Pitching. It's screenwriting's one very crucial "after market" add-on. You need someone who matters to give a shit about your masterpiece and you only have about 90 seconds to get their attention. So....If you want a development exec to keeping listening after the elevator door opens, take Max's THE ART OF THE PITCH. Nobody teaches it better and I'll guarantee you won't regret it.
6 people found this helpful.
Nektarios Chrissos
I was lucky enough to stumble upon Max Adam's courses a few years ago. I took most of them, and the fees were money well spent. Max knows storytelling for the screen, and she knows pitching very well. Have no fear to attend this course, and have full faith that this course will help you pitch your story in the best possible way.
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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.
As a writer, one area I definitely needed guidance on was pitching. Taking the course The Art of the Pitch with Max was so helpful. I learned so many things about pitching that I would have never even considered. I needed the perspective from someone inside the industry, and Max provided me that in the course. Thank you for the great lessons and conversations, Max!