April 2012

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Seeing Movies Twice

April 28, 2012

‘If you’re an aspiring screenwriter, you must watch movies, but you need to do more than that. You must also read movies as well. If...

Anatomy of a Bad Movie

April 22, 2012

It’s easy to find examples of great screenplays. “Citizen Kane,” “Casablanca,” “The Godfather.” However, it’s also easy to find bad movies too. Since you can...

What Isn’t Seen

April 17, 2012

What you see in a movie isn’t what was written. In fact, movies often cut out scenes that were written and filmed, but later deemed...

The Classic Three Act Structure

April 11, 2012

Every movie tells a story and every story follows a basic structure known as the three Act structure. By understanding this basic structure, you can...

Telling vs. Showing

April 3, 2012

A movie tells a story visually. Where many movies fail is when they forget this basic idea and rely too much on telling rather than...

About Wallace Wang

First place winner in Scriptapalooza’s 2023 screenwriting competition for the supernatural horror screenplay titled “Nightmares From a Past Life”. Author of “The 15 Minute Movie Method”, “Story Starter”, and “Writing Scenes for Screenplays” in addition to over 50 computer books. Writer of “Three of a Kind”, a situation comedy produced by San Diego State University’s film class that won a student Emmy award. Designer of the board game “Orbit War”, published by Steve Jackson Games, that simulates satellite warfare in the near future.

The 15 Minute Movie Method