Categories: Books, Max Adams, Screenwriting, Social Media, The Academy of Film Writing, Writers, Writing
This is the hot new book trailer for The New Screenwriter’s Survival Guide, an AFW publication, book trailer created by the epically talented Christie LeBlanc of Trailer Works.
Categories: Books, Screenwriting, The Academy of Film Writing, Writing
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 ...
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:::
Categories: Classes, Craft, Film, Max Adams, Non-Static Writing, The Academy of Film Writing, Writing
FREE BOOKS! YAY! Well not entirely free. You do have to win them in a competition: Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create a cool meme/graphic of a celebrity/historical figure/fictitious character/someone-recognizable-and-cool reading The New Screenwriter’s Survival Guide. [If you need inspiration or ideas, hit this :::post:::] Then, go to the The New Screenwriter’s Survival Guide Facebook page, Read More ...
Categories: Max Adams, The Academy of Film Writing, Writers, Writing
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.
Categories: Classes, Clips, Film, Max Adams, Social Media, The Academy of Film Writing, Writers, Writers, Writing
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 ...
Categories: Articles, Blogs, Classes, Craft, Film, Max Adams, Structural Writing, The Academy of Film Writing, Workshops, Writing
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 ...
Categories: Articles, Blogs, Classes, Film, Max Adams, Non-Static Writing, Screenwriting, The Academy of Film Writing, Workshops, Writing
The New Screenwriter’s Survival Guide’s web page is up. Ooh la la. Why, you ask, does the book have a page before it is in print? Planning, my ninjas, planning. The page needs to be around long enough to get picked up by search engines and propogate so when the eBooks come out in November it has presence on the web. Hence all this frenzy to get the art work Read More ...
Categories: Books, Max Adams, New Media, Social Media, The Academy of Film Writing, Writers, Writing
Prior to classes starting September 18, it seemed like a good idea to spruce the forum. It was falling behind on software version updates and something about that needed to be done. So right before classes started, I bit the bullet, pulled the theme, moved up two levels, managed to do that all without blowing up the forum, and pasted in a new theme and presto, we were up Read More ...
I had this sick twisted bastard of a yoga instructor tonight. I swear this guy used to reign over the Fifth Circle of Hell but he was too rough on people so they cast him out and he ended up at my yoga studio. He didn’t just make us do terrible hard things, he made jokes while he was doing it and laughed because he knew how hard the Read More ...