Yours truly is teaming up with Stage 32 again to bring you a new Stage 32 Next Level Webinar: Mastering Story Momentum: How to Jump Start Dramatic Tension & Pacing. Here’s the intro clip. https://vimeo.com/190011788 Hope you can make it. Smooches. ~ m :::FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE MASTERING STORY MOMENTUM […]
Sometimes — I get bored talking about me so let’s talk about something more fun. Let’s talk about my shoes! Yay! [Just kidding.] [Not really, my shoes are totally fun.] [But.] Online Master Screenwriting Classes in September. You know I have to do that right? It is sort of my job. Oops. :::HIGH […]
The January Stage 32 webinar went well. If you could not catch it live, never fear, you can still watch it online on Stage 32: :::CRASH COURSE: WRITING DYNAMIC SCENES::: Also, if you missed the December Stage 32 webinar, that is still available to watch too: :::CRASH COURSE: HIGH CONCEPT WRITING::: There is an […]
This coming January 26th I’m teaming up with Stage 32 on a new Next Level Education Webinar: Crash Course: Writing Dynamic Scenes You were wondering what all that clip frenzy was about, right? :::GO SEE:::
The forum is not, technically, all that neglected. There is a lot that goes on behind the scenes in private workshop and classroom forums. But the public forum is terribly neglected. I blame this on the great forum explosion of 2010. There was so much mad scrambling to do damage control and retrieval […]
Every time I create a new class and have blocked it all out, I think I’m incredibly smart planning it out and writing and titling lectures and thinking up assignments and putting together study material and clips. By the time I have the class and lectures and materials outlined and put together I think […]
I am always seeing these crazy story boards posted online by writers. They are very ordered and very detailed and very complex and to me look like time outlines for a NASA space mission or a chores list put up for a military camp. Here is one of those crazy story boards: Here is […]
5150 and AFW are nine years old. Holy cats! Happy Birthday, 5150 and AFW!
Hmm. So Geoff Latulippe just said “Ugh, Max. “Your reputation is well known to those in the film business. As a cautionary tale. I needn’t document it here, but suffice to say I can’t imagine a legit industry professional would vouch for you at this point.” This is a response to […]