The 15 Minute Movie Method

May 2016

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The Key to Horror – Isolation

May 30, 2016
If you like horror, then write horror screenplays. The main and most crucial element of horror is isolation. From a story telling standpoint, isolation forces...
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The End Answers the Beginning

May 27, 2016
Once you have a good idea for a story, you have to give it a structure. The simplest structure is to define the beginning and...
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The False Victory at the Midpoint

May 24, 2016
Pause any good movie near the middle of its running time and that’s where you can find the False Victory. This is the point where...
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Every Seven and a Half Minutes

May 21, 2016
Screenwriters typically break a screenplay into three Acts, but it’s actually more accurate to divide a movie into four Acts as follows: Act I —...
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Conflict Must be Inevitable

May 18, 2016
The main reason the final Act of every screenplay must be the most exciting part of the entire story is because this is where we...
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All Stories Are About Emotional Change

May 15, 2016
Watch a bad movie and one glaring problem is that most of the main characters don’t change emotionally. They often don’t have an emotional goal...
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Studying Genres

May 12, 2016
There’s a reason why most stories fall into specific types of genres. That’s because they emphasize a certain emotion that people want to experience such...
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Everything Changes

May 9, 2016
The basis for any story is change. At the very least, the hero must change and become someone better (or worse as in tragedies) than...
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One Clear Goal

May 6, 2016
In every story, either the hero or the villain needs a clear goal to pursue from beginning to end. Without a clear goal, a story...
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Make the Ending Spectacular

May 3, 2016
The last thing anyone remembers from most movies is the ending. That’s why the ending is always the most spectacular battle possible. The ending needs...
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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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