On March 25, 2013, respected Hollywood screenwriter, best-selling author and lecturer Max Adams will lead two educational events at Scottsdale Community College: Visual Writing Master Class: Adams will teach a three-hour condensed version of the revered class she teaches through the Academy of Film Writing and The University of Utah. This workshop will provide SCC Film School Screenwriting students with very specific craft tools in the art of making writing Read More ...
This is one of the most powerful monologues ever put on film. It is from Jaws, Quint’s character played by Robert Shaw delivers “The Indianapolis Speech.” Watch. Listen. Learn. We will be studying it hard in Dialogue Writing.
High Concept Writing and Character Writing begin March 13. One week left to register for those and then they will be closed to registration. CLICK HERE to register for March online classes.
Construction is complete. And no one went to the emergency room! Yay! The big news is, class registration is now automated. Instead of people having to email in via a form [which apparently was not working for a while no telling how long that was in play but sorry about that if you did not hear back from me your email got shredded by the bad internet fairy] you can Read More ...
Holiday month classes tend to be pretty small, January classes tend to be pretty full, that is when the U students are hitting the classes again. I would suggest, if you want to get on January classes, you register now. Courses [All] January Classes: The Art of the Pitch Visual Writing The Sex Scene Register
Want to know how to get a $375 class for a hundred bucks? Then this deal is for you. Read on – IF YOU BUY 3 DIGITAL COPIES OF MY BOOK FOR THE HIGHLY REASONABLE PRICE OF $9.99 each, I WILL GIVE YOU A FREE SIGNED HARD COPY when the book hits print in 2013 — all postage paid in the US. [Non-US peeps, sorry, I cannot predict roving Read More ...
Holiday month classes tend to be pretty small, January classes tend to be pretty full, that is when the U students are hitting the classes again. I would suggest, if you want to get on January classes, you register now. January Classes: The Art of the Pitch Visual Writing The Sex Scene Register
I find Amy Cuddy inspirational. Not just because her own story is so stark and amazing, but also because she is sharing so much with other people in her research and her efforts. And — I’m going to make every pitch student watch this clip. Maybe you should watch it too. Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are | Video on TED.com. I suspect part Read More ...
Yez. There are open seats in Non-Static Writing. Travesty! But this is lucky for you, you can still register and grab one of those seats between now and Tuesday. Need a reason why? Three of my workshoppers have won Nicholl Fellowships. Oh. And so did I. Class starts Tuesday. :::register:::
It looks like Black Canvas Productions and Academy of Film Writing will be collaborating on an online lecture project come late November/early December. Stay tuned for updates.
Syd Field came up with the 30/60/30 model years ago and being the only guy to come up with a description of structure, his structure concept stuck. It was in all the books. It was in all the lectures. It’s used pretty regularly in film circles to this day to estimate where in the course of a script a story event is happening. For example, if a studio Read More ...
Artificial action occurs when there is action described in scene description — which creates the illusion action is happening in a script — but it’s not real action. This includes “looking.” Which is just eyes in a character’s head being pointed in some direction and maybe then pointing in another, without a character moving from a stationary position. Or can just be scene description attempting to create an emotion Read More ...