THE WRITER’S REEL || ONLINE MASTER COURSE
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 Deposit: $150
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.
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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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The Writer’s Reel is a master 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

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
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.
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.