THE VOICE CLASS 2 || Jan 5
THE VOICE CLASS 2 || SIX WEEK MASTER CLASS
COURSE:
A Six Week Online Master Screenwriting Course
Studying with Max Adams
Course Dates: 03.10.26 || 01.05.27
Course Fee: $475
Course Location: ONLINE
The Voice Class 2 is a follow up master class to The Voice Class. An accelerated screenwriting master class studying online with author & award winning screenwriter Max Adams.
Nothing sells in Hollywood like VOICE. Nothing. And if you have everything down, story, structure, character, dialogue, plot — and still aren’t getting attention? You might be missing VOICE. That can be fixed —
During six weeks of advanced study, students will 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 page assignments with Max Adams.
*This is a page and reading intensive class and has a prerequisite, The Voice Class. Be sure you have pages, and are ready to do some reading and reviewing, before signing up for Voice 2. And, you must have already completed the first Voice Class to join Voice Class 2.
COURSE SYLLABUS:
WEEK ONE: Five Voice Models ||
Lecture: Fake it Till You Make It
WEEK TWO: Cadence, Tone & Voice ||
Lecture: What’s Your Natural Delivery?
WEEK THREE: Voice & Authorial Intrusion — The Deep Dive ||
Lecture: Are You A Mamet or a Black?
WEEK FOUR: Voice, Vocabulary & The Three Syllable Curse ||
Lecture: Regardless of Natural Voice, There Are Guidelines To Watch
WEEK FIVE: Passive Voice, Forms of Being, & The Voice Arch Nemesis ||
Lecture: Passive Voice is Not Your Friend But Forms of Being Might Be
WEEK SIX: Bringing Voice Home ||
Lecture: Sewing It All Together
WEEK SEVEN: Grace Week ||
No Lecture
WE WILL BE COVERING:
- The Masters, what works, what doesn’t — and how that relates to you.
- The five models, where is your voice on the voice metric, and how to use & strengthen it
- Cadence, rhythm & narrative flow
- Genre and tone and how voice supports or damages them
- Creating and sustaining tension and pacing with narrative voice
- Authorial Intrusion — when it’s your friend, and when it isn’t
- Backing up authorial intrusion for the reader & ditching metaphors when they hurt instead of help
- Pacing & the one word sentence
- Pacing and how voice can improve — or mute — it
- Voice & the Pitch, how they back up or undermine each other
- Why five dollars words are not your friend
- And more —
YOU WILL TAKE AWAY:
- Actionable craft tools that, implemented in your own scripts’ narrative, will immediately up the impact of your existing & future feature and television scripts, improving the response to your material from readers and industry professionals considering material for option, purchase, development, attachment and production.
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Ratings and Reviews
Ann Hoffman
Max does an excellent job showing how to help make writing flow better, read stronger, and sing louder! By providing great writing samples, challenging assignments, and great discussions, I learned how important a writer's voice is and how to build a stronger voice in my own writing.
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Joan Philo
Max's Voice 2 class is fantastic. We had fun and worked our butts off. Max did too! She searched through tons of films to find examples of successful films that visually show us Voice in action, from the page to the screen. Take this class and you will write scripts that pass through the gatekeepers' hands into the "must-read – love the writer" world of producers and directors.
3 people found this helpful.
Peter Andrews
Voice is an important part of writing an engaging script, without the language or vocabulary that can distract or lose a reader's attention. In addition, understanding the progression of visuals is essential to helping readers play the movie in their minds. This course provides lectures, videos, sample scripts, exercises, and discussion opportunities that allow you to master voice.
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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.
The adage write only what you see and hear is great advice to start out with but as you progress it can totally hold you back. It makes your writing stilled, and boring. It was in these classes Voice 1&2 that I finally figured out that we are supposed to be storytellers and that means telling a story with our own individual inflections and flair. The best writers infuse themselves into their work.