THE WRITER’S REEL || MAY 12
THE WRITER’S REEL || ONLINE MASTER COURSE
COURSE:
A Six Week Online Master Screenwriting Course
Studying with Max Adams
Course Dates: TBA
Course Fee: $475
Course Location: ONLINE
The Writer’s Reel is an accelerated screenwriting master class studying online with author & award winning screenwriter Max Adams. During six weeks of advanced study, students will analyze clips, reels, articles, story boards, and presentations provided in class, complete advanced course assignments and exercises, and participate in weekly online discussions reviewing and analyzing course materials and reel assignments with Max Adams.
Ever been asked for proof of concept? A statement of artistic vision? A lookbook or pitch deck or concept reel? This is the class for you.
COURSE SYLLABUS:
WEEK ONE: Sizzle, Lookbook, Demo, Mood, or Trailer? ||
Lecture: The Difference Between Terms & Presentation & What They Mean to Writers & Artists
WEEK TWO: The Writer’s Reel & Lookbook ||
Lecture: How to Distinguish Yourself as an Artist in Presentation & How to Do It Right
WEEK THREE: One Project or a Body of Work? ||
Lecture: The Benefits of Promoting One Project vs. Promoting Self & a Body of Work
WEEK FOUR: Creation & Distribution ||
Lecture: How to Use a Reel & Lookbook to Gain Attention & Support for a Pitch
WEEK FIVE: Impact & Pitfalls ||
Lecture: How Reels Fail & How Reels Succeed – A Study in Examples
WEEK SIX: Strategy ||
Lecture: Tools & Strategies for Future Reel & Lookbook Plans
WEEK SEVEN: Grace Week ||
No Lecture
WE WILL BE COVERING:
- Why producer presentations are not right for writers & artists in the industry
- Presentation strategies for artists
- Proof of concept
- Lookbook examples & strategies
- Block structure formats
- Reel examples & strategies
- Why the written word is not your lookbook’s friend
- Comparison examples: The do’s & don’ts of professional presenation
- Sources for found art & how to use it
- Presentations for single projects, bodies of work, and an artist’s personal showcase reel
- And more —
YOU WILL TAKE AWAY:
- A lookbook & reel presentation for a [completed or in progress] project you bring to class.
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Ratings and Reviews
H Raven Rose
If you write screenplays or want to pitch projects as a producer, you must take The Writer’s Reel with Max Adams. It is six weeks of intense advanced study, and you will leave with a lookbook draft or two and a vast amount of mastery and increased professionalism that can only be gained in this accelerated--prepare for Hollywood industry standard fast-paced production deadlines--pro class online!!
3 people found this helpful.
Tonia Kempler
This is a fantastic class for anyone ready to step outside their comfort zone and gain the skills necessary to take your career to the next level.
5 people found this helpful.
Debi Yazbeck
Max taught me how to condense my story into almost no words, just flavored visuals that sweep the viewer into the world I've created. And the viewer needs to spend less than two minutes to understand what I'm telling. Brilliant!
5 people found this helpful.
Peter Andrews
As a typical introvert writer, I did this to get out of my comfort zone. As it turned out, I wasn't pushed, I was enticed. Part of this was because of things I didn't expect in terms of new perspectives on myself and a writer and unexpected imagery. I think of these as side effects (still an introvert). You might think of them as bonuses.
6 people found this helpful.
Jodi Lustig
Writers write. Right? If your work's good, it gets out there into the world. Somehow. I'm too much of a goody goody to say I don't believe the universe can be benevolent. But sometimes the universe could use a huge helping hand. I came out of this class with a gorgeous lookbook and the crazy (for me) confidence that I could "put myself out there" like a pro. Take it. It's a game changer.
5 people found this helpful.
Joan Philo
Max Adam’s “The Writer’s Reel” opened my eyes to create a visual story in a lookbook that can sell your script. From my original pretty crappy first attempt to a total mini-masterpiece visual of my story. Thanks, Max! Highly recommend. Joan Philo
7 people found this helpful.
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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.
I am SO glad I took this course. My attitude has become: If Max teaches it, I need it! This course got me up to speed on how to create a lookbook (my goal for my WIP), which is amazing because I came in way behind. Max did an incredible job helping me along. When it comes to assignments, she always knows exactly what it takes for me to have breakthroughs in learning.