The 15 Minute Movie Method

December 2019

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The Sure-Fire Formula for Success That Isn’t

December 31, 2019
Hollywood tries to minimize risks. That’s why they often turn to successful books, movies, and video games to turn into movies. Unfortunately, that’s about as...
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Absurdity and Reality: the Formula for Comedy

December 28, 2019
It’s easy to make a bad comedy movie that simply spoofs other movies like “Disaster Movie” or “Vampires Suck,” which spoofed the “Twilight” series. However,...
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It’s All About Redemption

December 25, 2019
What gives a story depth is the past. Sometimes that past is seen right in the beginning of the story such as in “Cliffhanger” where...
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Think Low Budget

December 22, 2019
Rodriguez broke into Hollywood with his film “El Mariachi,” which is about a mariachi singer who comes to town at the same time as an...
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Why Books Don’t Always Make Good Movies

December 19, 2019
Hollywood is risk-aversive so they constantly try to turn books into movies. The logic is that if a book is popular, turning the story into...
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Using Two or More Genres to Create a Story

December 16, 2019
Watch a bad movie and it typically focuses on a single genre such as a bad action movie that’s nothing but explosions and gunfire (“Terminator...
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A Symbol of the Traumatic Past

December 13, 2019
Some traumatic event in the past motivated your hero and/or mentor. Now your story is all about your hero and/or mentor taking action to redeem...
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The Mystery of the Haunted Past

December 10, 2019
The past needs to intrude into the present. Then part of the story is how the hero is trying to redeem him or herself from...
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All Stories Are About Redemption From the Past

December 7, 2019
What makes many screenplays hard to complete is that the screenwriter runs out of ideas. One way to make sure you have enough material to...
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Make Every Scene a Miniature Story

December 4, 2019
Read most novice’s screenplays and they tend to write lots of boring scenes where nothing happens. The way to avoid this problem is to identify...
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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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