The 15 Minute Movie Method

June 2013

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Action and Meaning — What Movies Are Really All About

June 28, 2013
What a movie is really all about isn’t what you usually notice in the ads or trailers. The 1996 movie “Independence Day” will never be...
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How to Write a Screenplay in 15 Minutes a Day

June 25, 2013
If I told you that you could write a screenplay in 15 minutes a day, you might scoff. However, it’s true. If you take 15...
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The Crucial Element of Storytelling — Conflict

June 22, 2013
The crucial ingredient that every story must have in every scene and every Act is conflict. If there’s no conflict, there’s no reason to want...
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Mirroring — Everything is One

June 19, 2013
Every story has a single voice, and your characters must reflect different aspects of that one voice. If you hear a single voice, it’s easy to...
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The Inciting Incident — Opening Your Movie with a Bang

June 16, 2013
The beginning of every movie starts off with an inciting incident that either gets the movie going or summarizes what the movie is about (or...
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“Kung Fu Panda” Analysis

June 13, 2013
“Kung Fu Panda,” like all movies, can be divided into eight distinct segments where each segment has its own Exposition, Rising Action, and Climax. Kung...
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Full Circle — Beginnings and Endings

June 10, 2013
The beginning of a screenplay must be related to the ending somehow. This can be showing the main character in a similar situation but a...
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The Purpose of the Exposition

June 7, 2013
The five questions that the Exposition has to answer for every movie. Act I, the Exposition, sets the stage for the rest of the movie....
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The Importance of Titles

June 4, 2013
Titles are your audience’s first impression of what your screenplay is about. Every movie needs a title. The title you pick can set the tone...
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The Hallmark of Bad Movies

June 1, 2013
What makes a bad movie is a combination of characters we don’t care about and the lack of primeval goals that we can understand The...
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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.

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