VISUAL WRITING || ONLINE MASTER COURSE
VISUAL WRITING || ONLINE MASTER COURSE
COURSE:
A Six Week Online Master Screenwriting Course
Studying with Max Adams
Course Dates: 05.16.23
Course Fee: $475 || Course Deposit: $150
Course Location: ONLINE
Visual Writing is an accelerated screenwriting master class studying online with author & award winning screenwriter Max Adams. During six weeks of advanced study, students will study the three foundations of scene visuals, 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: Setting Location ||
Lecture: Space, Light, Texture
WEEK TWO: Perspective ||
Lecture: The Window or the Man?
WEEK THREE: Exterior vs. Interior ||
Lecture: Car Chase is Not a Location
WEEK FOUR: Character Intro’s ||
Lecture: Short Skirt Does Not Equal Character
WEEK FIVE: Static Locations vs. Dynamic Locations ||
Lecture: Dead Movement Equals Dead Movie
WEEK SIX: Verbs & Movement ||
Lecture: Walk, Leap, or Stroll
WEEK SEVEN: Grace Week ||
No Lecture
WE WILL BE COVERING:
- The three visual cornerstones
- Setting locations visually
- Introducing characters visually
- Authorial intrusion — when & how to use it, and when you need to lose it
- Introducing visual elements from general to specific — and why that counts
- Line of sight and how to use it
- Perspective — how to create it, how to anchor it, and how to maintain it
- How to direct visuals without camera cues
- Filters — when & how to use them, and when & how to lose them
- Drawing on a reader’s visuals memory vault to enhance writing impact
- And more —
YOU WILL TAKE AWAY:
- Actionable craft tools that, implemented in your own scripts, will immediately improve your existing & future feature and television scripts, ceating stronger impact with and a cinematic reading experience for future readers and industry professionals considering material for option, purchase, development, attachment and production.
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Ratings and Reviews
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 was my favorite class. "Space, light, texture" is the mantra that has stuck with me and inspired me ever since. The practice we received writing scene-setting descriptions from photographs was extremely effective because it trained us to pay attention to the path of the eye wandering through a scene, and to record a sequence of visual details in the natural order.