Video Online Master Classes —
From author & award winning screenwriter Max Adams
MASTERING STORY MOMENTUM || VIDEO MASTER COURSE
Mastering Story Momentum is an eight part online video master screenwriting class. Full course running time is two & a half hours. Mastering Story Momentum is a member of the structure & pacing class set from TheAFW and author & award winning screenwriter Max Adams. Mastering Story Momentum is available both as a video course and as a six week online course studying with Max Adams.
THE ART OF THE PITCH || VIDEO MASTER COURSE
The Art of the Pitch is an eight part online video master screenwriting class. Full course running time is two & a half hours. The Art of the Pitch is a member of the pitching & industry class set from TheAFW and author & award winning screenwriter Max Adams. The Art of the Pitch is available both as a video course and as a six week online course studying with Max Adams.
DIALOGUE WRITING || VIDEO MASTER COURSE
Dialogue Writing is an eight part online video master screenwriting class. Full course running time is two & a half hours. Dialogue Writing is a member of the character class set from TheAFW and author & award winning screenwriter Max Adams. Dialogue Writing is available both as a video course and as a six week online course studying with Max Adams.
CHARACTER WRITING || VIDEO MASTER COURSE
Character Writing is an eight part online video master screenwriting class. Full course running time is two & a half hours. Character Writing is a member of the character class set from TheAFW and author & award winning screenwriter Max Adams. Character Writing is available both as a video course and as a six week online course studying with Max Adams.
VISUAL WRITING || VIDEO MASTER COURSE
Visual Writing is an eight part online video master screenwriting class. Full course running time is two & a half hours. Visual Writing is a member of the visuals & motion class set from TheAFW and author & award winning screenwriter Max Adams. Visual Writing is available both as a video course and as a six week online course studying with Max Adams.
DYNAMIC WRITING || VIDEO MASTER COURSE
Dynamic Writing is an eight part online video master screenwriting class. Full course running time is two & a half hours. Dynamic Writing is a member of the visuals & motion class set from TheAFW and author & award winning screenwriter Max Adams. Dynamic Writing is available both as a video course and as a six week online course studying with Max Adams.
2023 SIX WEEK MASTER CLASS SCHEDULE
01.10.23: The First 30 Pages
03.14.23: Mastering Story Momentum
05.16.23: Visual Writing
07.11.23: Dynamic Writing
09.05.23: Character Writing
11.07.23: Dialogue Writing
—REGISTRATION FOR 2023 MASTER CLASSES IS OPEN—
2022 || 2023 LAB SCHEDULE
01.08.22 || 8 PM EST: Logline Lab (saturday)
01.22.22 || 8 PM EST: Lookbook Lab (saturday)
02.05.22 || 8 PM EST: Logline Lab (saturday)
02.19.22 || 8 PM EST: Lookbook Lab (saturday)
03.09.22 || 8 PM EST: Logline Lab (wednesday)
03.23.22 || 8 PM EST: Lookbook Lab (wednesday)
09.17.22 || 8 PM EST: Pacing Lab (saturday)
09.24.22 || 8 PM EST: Logline Lab (saturday)
11.05.22 || 8 PM EST: Logline Lab (saturday)
11.19.22 || 8 PM EST: Lookbook Lab (saturday)
*We have not scheduled 2023 labs yet, check back for new dates or sign up for the mailing list to be notified of upcoming lab dates as we add them.
2023 VIDEO MASTER CLASS SCHEDULE

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.