The Voice Class, A Six Week Online Screenwriting Master Class With Author & Screenwriter Max Adams
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Ongoing thru December 23rd
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THE VOICE CLASS || SIX WEEK MASTER CLASS
COURSE:
A Six Week Online Master Screenwriting Course
Studying with author & award winning screenwriter Max Adams
Course Date: 11.04.25
Course Fee: $475 || Course Deposit: $150
Course Location: ONLINE
*A $50 tuition discount is available to AFW newsletter subscribers for last call open course slots.
The Voice Class is 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. Be sure you have pages, and are ready to do some reading and reviewing, before signing up for the class.
COURSE SYLLABUS:
WEEK ONE: A Study of Voice ||
Lecture: Voice Sells & Here’s Why
WEEK TWO: Voice & The Writer’s Vocabulary ||
Lecture: Their Narrative Voice, Your Narrative Voice, We All Have Narrative Voice
WEEK THREE: Voice, Tone & Genre ||
Lecture: Supporting Tone & Genre With Voice
WEEK FOUR: Voice & Character ||
Lecture: Differentiating Between Narrative Voice & Character Voice
WEEK FIVE: Voice, Pacing, Clarity & Narrative Flow ||
Lecture: Voice Alone Cannot Carry Story — But It Sure Helps
WEEK SIX: Voice & The Pitch ||
Lecture: Narrative Voice & How It Carries Over Into The Pitch
WEEK SEVEN: Grace Week ||
No Lecture
WE WILL BE COVERING:
- The Masters, what works, what doesn’t
- Cadence, rhythm & narrative flow
- Genre and tone and how voice supports or damages them
- How to create and sustain tension with narrative voice
- Authorial Intrusion — when it’s your friend, and when it isn’t
- Voice vs clarity
- Backing up the metaphors for the reader
- Pacing and how voice can improve — or mute — it
- “Tonto Speak” — the death of narrative flow
- Camera directions, when and how they work, and when and how they don’t
- Differentiating between narrative voice and character voice
- Losing the “Prose” habit
- 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.
For more information about this event:
https://theafw.com/voice/
